Michael Crowley believes the us-against-the-world mentality of the Clintons can be traced to a defining event in their lives: the unjust impeachment of Bill.
But I think that the source of that mentality can be equally traced back to the decade-long Whitewater non-scandal. In his autobiography, My Life, Bill spends much more time -- and, on the audiobook version, reads with more passion -- on Whitewater than on the impeachment. It would be easy to understand why. Unlike the Lewinsky scandal, in which Bill had done something at least privately immoral, with Whitewater he had not committed a single ethical transgression. He knew he was innocent. How could that not make you a bit defensive?
--Jordan Michael Smith
