Rosen on Hillary Clinton

Ruth Rosen (Column Left, Feb. 1) discusses matters of no consequence whatsoever to Hillary Clinton’s lies and arrogance.

Clinton is welcome to sell her ghostwritten book about raising children, and make even more “evil” profits (as liberals portray them) than she did in her cattle futures escapades. But she is being pilloried for her pretensions of innocence, when she smacks of obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury, felonies all. She feigns memory loss, when she is, in feminist eyes, the world’s smartest woman. She cannot be impeached because she was never elected. She cannot be fired, having never been hired. So tell us, professor Rosen, just where does the buck stop?

JOHN JAEGER

Irvine

I take issue with Rosen’s contention that any recent Hillary-bashing represents merely the wounded outcry of our society’s less enlightened males. If we are to be truly gender-blind in our assessment of Clinton (and any other woman), we are entitled to the same impressions any person, male or female, would engender under similar circumstances. Hillary’s integrity and veracity have been called into question of late and--especially in the face of her often self-righteous postur- ing--people will react accordingly.

SUNNY KREIS

Los Angeles

The Rosen column was the first sane thing I’ve read about Hillary Clinton. It is becoming clearer to everyone that the Republicans are engaging in a campaign to inflict as much damage on her as possible using the most insignificant “evidence” they can scratch and scrape from the Whitewater nonevent or the Travelgate nonscandal. The most amazing thing to me is how the media buys into it so gullibly without any sense of perspective whatsoever. The Times is guilty of the crime as well.

I can’t tell you how many times I have scrutinized articles in your newspaper about Whitewater, trying to find out what all the uproar is about and have found nothing, or some extremely insignificant details that tell us nothing. The Clintons have done nothing wrong.

ALICE BLANCHARD

West Hollywood