Shilling for Hill
You’d have to figure Bill Clinton couldn’t resist offering a testimonial for his wife’s character (and, by extension, her candidacy) in his new book, “Giving,” which hits shelves next week.
No sooner do you reach the introduction than the former president writes that in contrast to his own sporadic giving and volunteering during his public life, “Hillary was a different story.”
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He then proceeds to detail her work with legal aid in law school, children’s issues in her 20s, and her volunteer efforts on behalf of prisoners, preschoolers, rural health care and her church while he was attorney general and governor. “Hillary did the things she did because she wanted to make a difference,” he writes.
Sounds like he’s already prepared to be thesupportive first husband. And some support it is: The initial print run of the book is 750,000 copies.
You might also expect that with all the Clintons’ celebrity friends, there’d be some name dropping. You’d be right again.
Among those who get shout-outs: Bono, The Edge, Mia Farrow, Andre Agassi, Rachael Ray, Don Cheadle and George Clooney, among many, many more.
Of his vice president, he writes that when Al Gore “won an Academy Award for his fine documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ I was thrilled. America was finally listening to the lecture he’d been giving me every week for eight years!”
Clinton also relates what Warren Buffett told him after giving $30 billion to the Gates Foundation. “I got rich because investors thought I could make more investing their money than they could,” Buffett said. “Bill and Melinda can spend my money better than I could.”
