I can't bring myself to read this poisonous swill.
Todd S. Purdum and David E. Sanger contributed reporting for this article.
and wonder why a book review at the Times takes three people to complete...
It was a hung jury, and if the Senate had 2/3 members with integrity he would have been booted out, (Not one single senate rat had enough honor to do the right thing, with 5 RINO's joining them in their fellowship of evil )
Hmmmm. full post from the People's Republic Gazette. Is this allowed? Jeez don't you just love the term sprawling in conjunction with a Clinton review....
Phew, now I dont have to spent $35 on his BS. I know what his BS line already.
but this ...
" ... an overwhelming electoral and popular victory."
Huh? He got *under* 50% in his re-election and that is 'overwhelming'. I am underwhelmed.
Is it just me, or does everyone else find this "sleeping on the couch" business a bit much? Doesn't the White House have a spare bedroom, or twelve? Do these hacks honestly expect us to believe that Clinton slept on a couch, just as they expected us to believe that the Secret Service couldn't protect him from a stalker his daughter's age?
Somehow, it strikes me odd that the President of the United States EVER slept on a couch. I find it extremely odd that the NYT seems to think that this needs no comment..
More to the point -- Lewinsky was too much of a loose cannon, even for him, so he ended things.
Much as he often did in person, he runs through poll results state-by-state, concluding that over all he was happy with the re-election results, an overwhelming electoral and popular victory.
Is getting 49% of the popular vote an overwhelming victory? Then why does his side slam Bush, when Bush had more votes in 2000?
To be fair, I think Bubba's greatest problem is that he is blind to thinking ahead to the bigger picture. His famous obsession with seeing one problem at a time got him into trouble. That's a motif that we find find recurring throughout his presidency. The real tragedy is a man of such political skill and charm might have been able to make something of himself had he not been so poll-dependent. In the end for all his grandiose ambitions he achieved little and was able to finish his term in office only because the American people thought removing him from office for lying about a personal matter was too harsh a punishment for a moment of human weakness. That must be little solace for a man who won't be remembered as one of the presidential "greats" in the history books.
Well, as Gomer Pyle would say....."Surprise, surprise, surprise".
The book's length gives the former president plenty of room to settle scores and he does so with his customary élan. He takes the whip to Republicans in Congress;"
Can you tell it really gets under his skin, that because of his failed leadership, a lot of those Republicans got elected to congress in YEAR 2 of his presidency?
"He also notes that in 1996 he signed two directives on terrorism and appointed Richard A. Clarke to be the administration's terrorism coordinator."
Yes, Bill, there are many of us who have already taken note of your appointment of Dick Clarke!
"He explained the sudden appearance of Mrs. Clinton's legal billing records in the White House residence as the product merely of sloppy record-keeping in Arkansas.
But of course! That's how they ended up in the White House?!!
He thinks his re-election was an overhelming victory?? he got 49% and he was running against BOB DOLE and The Crazy Guy!!
Is he trying to claim it was the right wing cabal who allowed bin Laden to escape?
Enablers. This no review, it's a promotional press release. NO perspective, no distance, taking known habitual liar's word for everything. Who ever doubts that Monica was not the only bimbo during those years? And yet the Slimes treats the whole episode as something out of the ordinary. Let's wait for the reviews in the conservative press...
Nothing is ever his fault.
this should be about as exciting as Hitler's Mein Kampf
In all of the posts of articles about Clinton's book or his 60-Minutes interview, he conveniently omits the fact that his impeachment was not about the sex with Monica, but about LYING UNDER OATH. If any one of us were found guilty of this, we would most certainly be doing time.
Slamming Kenneth Starr and the VWRC for his troubles is a classic Rat tactic.
"He said the affair was personally humiliating and almost cost him his presidency"
It wasn't the affair Billy, it was lying under oath. You never can bring yourself to admit that, can you?
I remember the contrived photo ops used to really irritate me: All the little minority children gathered around his feet as if he were their benevolent uncle. It seemed like he had one of those at least once a week. Remember Ron Brown's funeral when he was yukking it up with his cronies until he saw the camera was on him, the he went into head-hanging lower-lip-biting mode? Just happening to come across the little pile of stones during his solitary, reflective walk on the beach during the '94 D-Day memorial and then stopping and arranging them into the shape of a cross. Everything about him reeked of the fallacious.
The vaunted New York Times falls for the sleeping on the couch lie. We are being treated to what we had to endure during the years this thing held office: He states obvious lies and the media can't be bothered to insert even a hint of a qualifier indicating they have any doubt their Bill is telling anything but the truth.
As to this:
But he devotes only a sentence to the harrowing moments when he sent a Navy carrier near the Taiwan strait to stop China from missile tests meant to intimidate the island's voters before a crucial election.
Could it be he didn't want to dwell on the area where his activities are really suspect?
At the request of several Opinion, Inc. readers, we offer the complete text of the letters between Charlie Trie, fugitive Clinton fundraiser, and President Clinton about U.S. fleet movements in response to military pressure aimed at democratic Taiwan by the Chinese communist military.
The nature, text, and context of these letters have been virtually ignored by the Big Media.
The following letter to President Clinton from Charlie Trie was faxed by former White House aide Mark Middleton to the Oval Office on March 21, 1996 with a handwritten cover notation reminding the White House that "Charlie Trie is a personal friend of the President from LR (Little Rock). He is also a major supporter. The President sat beside Charlie at the big Asian fundraiser several weeks ago." Hours before this letter was faxed, Trie hand-delivered $460,000 in checks to the Clinton's legal defense trust fund. All these checks, plus an additional $122,000 in additional Trie-directed donations, were returned three months later because of evidence that they were forged and funneled to Clinton's slush fund by a Taiwan-based Buddhist cult.
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Mr. Clinton has surprisingly little to say about his opponent in the 1996 election, Bob Dole
Bob Dole was one of the best things that ever happened to clinton.