Hillary’s Walter Mitty Fantasy

November I suggested that Hillary Clinton’s own autobiography provides no evidence to support her on-the-trail assertions that she was a foreign policy player during her husband’s administration:

The book is not a policy manifesto of course. But even making that allowance it is striking how much of Hillary’s memoir is taken up with fluff – “I had given a lot of thought to how Chelsea and I should dress on the trip. We wanted to be comfortable, and under the sun’s heat, I was glad for the hats and cotton clothes I had packed” – and how little is concerned with affairs of state… Perhaps it’s unfair to judge Hillary by the evidence published in a book she didn’t write. Then again, it did appear under her name and judging from Living History there was lots of travel but precious little real policy. If that’s an unfair conclusion then Hillary will, doubtless, tell us why and how and where this verdict is unwarranted.