I’m not a fan of Bill and Hillary Clinton. I believe the man to have been a pox upon the Presidency. I believe that Hillary is a hypocrite who betrayed her own feminist principles by achieving power the old-fashioned way – by sleeping with a powerful man rather than earning it on her own merits.

That said, I must also say that my objection to the pair is strictly political, not personal. I bear them no personal ill will, for all that I object to them politically.

And so I am pleased to see this gossipy article, and hope that the analysis is accurate.

The state of Bill and Hillary Clinton's union is apparently strong - at least judging by the mongo diamond that Hillary was sporting on her ring finger yesterday.
Sources say the former President quietly gave the iceberg-sized bling - thought to exceed 3 carats - to his wife months ago, in advance of their 30th wedding anniversary on Oct. 11 last year.
But the sparkling stunner is so big that the former First Lady has been nervous about wearing it and hasn't broken it out of her jewelry box on a regular basis until recently.
The big bauble was on full display yesterday, when the junior senator visited University Settlement, an outreach center on the lower East Side, to talk about cuts to early childhood education proposed by President Bush.
"It was a gift from her husband," was all Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Hanley would say.
Of course, it hasn't always been a bed of roses for the Clintons.
After the former President confessed in 1998 to having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton wrote in her 2003 book, "Living History," "I felt nothing but profound sadness, disappointment and unresolved anger."
"I could barely speak to Bill," she wrote of the family's summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard in 1998. "And when I did, it was a tirade. I read. I walked on the beach. He slept upstairs and I slept downstairs."
But those days are apparently over - just in time for Valentine's Day next week.

The personal and the political are two separate things for me. I felt a lot of compassion for Hillary Clinton during Monica-gate, because no one should have to go through such a terrible betrayal, much less in the glare of the lights of news cameras. I felt genuine concern for Bill Clinton during his illness a couple of years ago. And so I am pleased by the apparent reconciliation between these two powerful Democrats – because everyone, regardless of politics, deserves to love and be loved. Call me a romantic.

And so it is my hope that they may have many more years together – happy years filled with love for one another.

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