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d440d22 I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. truth first-words iowa Bill Bryson
358ccc2 "Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you racism politics african-americans plantation barack-obama martin-luther-king-jr hillary-clinton iowa new-hampshire united-states-elections-2008 george-w-bush united-states hypocrisy Christopher Hitchens
11f4e68 They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July. midwest clouds july skies storms west iowa weather Bill Bryson
7db9867 "Yet isn't it all--all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga--exactly like that? And isn't some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it validates the myth of her striving and her 'greatness' (her overweening ambition in other words) and only ceases to be true when it no longer serves that limitless purpose. And we are all supposed to applaud the skill and the bare-faced bravado with which this is done. In the New Hampshire primary in 1992, she knowingly lied about her husband's uncontainable sex life and put him eternally in her debt. This is now thought of, and referred to in print, purely as a smart move on her part. In the Iowa caucuses of 2008, he returns the favor by telling a huge lie about his own record on the war in Iraq, falsely asserting that he was opposed to the intervention from the very start. This is thought of, and referred to in print, as purely a tactical mistake on his part: trying too hard to help the spouse. The happy couple has now united on an equally lies sex politics ambition 2008 expediency hillary-clinton iowa iowa-caucuses new-hampshire new-hampshire-primary self-promotion united-states-elections-2008 bill-clinton iraq iraq-war united-states greatness Christopher Hitchens