HRC MUST BE PISSED... ...at the childhood friend, John Peavoy, who handed over a cache of letters she wrote him in college to a New York Times reporter. An English professor at Scripps College in California, Peavoy says he's not sure whether he'll vote for Clinton (with whom he hasn't spoken in decades) or Barack Obama. Though written in the late sixties, the letters are free of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll, except for their author's disapproval of a friend who does acid. Hillary relates typical adolescent mood swings in overwrought prose, but also discusses her alienation from her conservative Illinois upbringing and her transfer of political allegiances from the Republican to the Democratic Party. She calls a Republican convention “a farce that would have done Oscar Wilde credit” and discusses antiwar views. All in all, these letters aren't particularly revelatory. They prove only that Hillary has been bookish, ambitious, and maybe a little bit condescending her entire life.
--Dana Goldstein
