Hillary Clinton's Ghosts



Above: Senator Hillary, ERVK supporters, ectoplasmic critters not included, via NYSocialDiary.

Ghosts -- and we really don't mean Ibsen's take on intense domestic blowouts -- appear to be trailing New York's Senator, like Bill Clinton after a plate full of babyback ribs and gravy fries. First, Joe Queenan says of the Senator's ghost writers in the New York Times Book Review, " ... two years ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton put her name on a vast, unprecedentedly uninteresting autobiography, waiting until page 529 before disclosing that her speechwriter was responsible for many of the words in the book, which, coincidentally, read like the world's longest speech."

Oh, Joe, you heartless beast; you didn't tear up just a little when Hill described Bill as looking like a Viking? Or the former President's beautiful hands? Not even a smidgeon? Now, David Patrick Columbia, that great social chronicler of the Knickerbocker set, writes in NYSocialDiary:

" The Gandhis were hosting the party in their house for the benefit of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK), to raise money for the non-profit organization which operates out of Mrs. Roosevelt�s historic home in Hyde Park. Coincidentally and not, the Gandhis� home was also Eleanor Roosevelt�s home here in the city for the last three years of her life. The guest of honor for the two-hour event was also Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton who in many ways considers herself a disciple of Mrs. Roosevelt and, at least, was highly influenced by Mrs. Roosevelt�s life.

"... (Senator Clinton) told us how Eleanor Roosevelt�s influence continues all over the world, and that she�s learned this from her own travels where young women, born long after Mrs. Roosevelt�s passing (44 years ago), are inspired by her. She told us about visiting Stone Cottage and how Mrs. R�s energy seems still very much 'in the room,' as it felt for her also on this night in the Gandhis� house."

And what room would that be? In Graydon Carter's First Room?