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Summary: A keen eye
Review: It is obvious from many posts regarding political book reviews that comments serve more to field a detest for one side of the political spectrum. Liberals, aka Democrats, want to bring up the negativies of Conservatives, aka Republicans, as a means of pointing out that one should not be criticizing when your own back yard has trash in it (Mr. Manges and Mr. Klinges). Conservatives want to embrace any publication that points out the horrors of the Liberal Agenda regardless of the lack of value in said publication (See the many reviews on books by Barbara Olson or the Limbaugh boys). There are many political sites for these opinions, but please do us all a favor and stick to a review of the book and not your unsolicited political opinion.Mr. Gathercoal's assessment fails to recognize the point of this book. On many levels one can be criticized for their actions. The first Bush Presidency can be justly criticized for the Contra Affair. What Bennett does is to look at the public sentiment towards the "popular" president and why that is disturbing. Mr. Gathercoal's comment "70% of the American public liked Bill Clinton and wanted the case dropped" is just the point that Mr. Bennett is trying to make: that those 70% should have been outraged by the "moral" position taken by Mr. Clinton with regards to his lying to the American public. That is the point of the book, to note that the American public did not utilize a moral code to determine whether or not the President should be supported. Mr. Bennett does, however, show his Conservative bend at times which can ignite the defense mechanisim in anyone who wonders why, if politicians are so concerened with morality, that they are only so when it is not connected with their political party. For that some of the "liberal reviews" do have merritt when bringing up the failings of the Right. But I think to a greater degree what Mr. Bennett does is to use this incident as a foundation for an attitude about people and politics that we, the American public, should employ not just to the Democrats but to Mr. Bennett's party as well and maybe if Mr. Bennett would turn his pen on his own party he would find that he would be more credible to more people. The book is well written and you will find yourself able to go through it in one sitting. It is best to come to this book with a mind that is open not to the subject of but rather the philosophy behind why the book was written. Some may not be able to this and it is understandable. If you have a bent towards Moral Relativism then this book will not convince you to change your stripes. It does not work as a harsh philosophical investigation into morality. If you are one who feels that the moral compass of America is off North then this book will justify that sentiment. If you sit somewhere the middle and can read the book without trying to minimalize the attacks by saying "well the other side did this" then I believe you will find some of Mr. Bennett's points worthy of reflection POST NOTE: A comment to the first person who voted that this review was not helpful: thank you for satisfying the attitude mentioned in my first paragraph. The idea behind a review is to add to the dialogue about the subject, thereby allowing the reader an understanding of content before reading the book. My guess is that your vote was solely based on attitude within the review rather than whether you found the review to be helpful to you in understanding what is occuring between the pages. You might honesty and objectivity to be beneficial to you in your everday life as opposed to walking the "party line" like a mindless automaton.
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Summary: The Outrage Should Be At Bennett's Mindboggling Hypocrisy
Review: Know when to Fold em, know when to walk away, Know when to run...!
Bill, get away from those slot machines with all the money you are making from your moral outrage book...tsk tsk tsk and for shame!
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Summary: Simple minds are easily bemused.
Review: Methinks the self-proclaimed pillar of virtue named Bennett doth protest too much. He does casuistic cartwheels and Puritan pirouettes in order to project continuing Republican shame over Watergate onto the Clintons: a stomped-to-death tactic that does not, has not, and shall not yield another bitter grape, let alone the wine of salvation. Bennett's collage of Utopian morality, tired, glittering denials of human nature, and one self-replicating argumentum ad hominem after another speaks volumes about the hypocrisy, cynicism, and self-serving affronts to critical reason that will come to be seen as the true Reagan legacy. But why expect more of a failed "Drug Czar", who never quite succeeded in recovering from his addiction to tobacco? That anyone could take Bennett's death-knell of statesmanship and partisan harmony seriously suggests that outrage indeed is dead: The title says it all, if not quite as its author intended.
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Summary: Lies
Review: Reagan and Bush told no lies? Keep dreaming
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Summary: Holy Dice Rolling
Review: The only thing Im outraged about is the sheer hypocrisy of Bennett. He has written a library full of books preaching to the rest of us about the virtuous life and morality and making millions in the process. Then we find all the while he has been blowing 8 million on the roulette wheels, slots, and dice, while drinking and chasing women. It galls me even more that today he has the guts to host a daily program on some Christian radio network, along with regular appearances on the Fox News Channel. (actually Fox News Channel appearances don't surprise me, he is in good company there). I can't wait for his next book, HOLY (DICE) ROLLING.
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Summary: Bennett's degree in philosophy serves his readers well
Review: What more can be said about Bennett's book than the reactions to it from those on the left. Bennett knows how to frustrate those who defend the likes of Clinton: employ logic and analytic philosophy against them. Wonderful book by a man who lives the virtues.
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Summary: A Brilliant Refutation of Clinton's Defenders.
Review: William Bennett presents in this short, easily readable book a clear, cogent argument for the removal of Bill Clinton as President. Anyone who is wavering in the middle, unsure as to whether Clinton's offenses rise to the level of impeachment needs to read this book. Bennett's arguments are logical, persuasive, and essentially irrefutable. This book should be required reading in college political science curricula.
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Summary: A better idea.
Review: Wouldn't it be a better idea to issue a hollowed out version of Bennett & Heston's book so as to afford a place to hide my Smith & Wesson 38.
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