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Summary: Only Book You Need to Read about Bill Clinton
Review: A strange thing is happening to Democrats these days. After losing three straight national elections they no longer want to talk about Bill Clinton. Republicans, on the other hand, are quite proud of Ronald Reagan and make regular appeals to his legacy. This is what makes this book highly relevant today.
The legacy of Bill Clinton, it seems, is starting to clarify - along with the realization among Democrats that perhaps the Clinton years were not as good for the Party as had been assumed. Political junkies on either side of the divide will agree that Rich Lowery does a marvelous job of covering the entire spectrum of Clinton's eight years in office in comprehensive fashion. Credit is given to the Administration where due and he successfully avoids the tabloid sensationalism (Michael Moore) and intellectual shallowness (Bill O'Reilly) of most other pop political bestsellers. `Legacy; is heavily footnoted, yet entertaining.
What is the legacy of a man who presided over eight years of "peace and prosperity," yet couldn't deliver his own home State to his own Vice President (who, in turn, failed to win his own home State as well)? As a former Democratic loyalist, I suggest that the party engage in a dose of honest retrospection. This might prevent embarrassing episodes such as when John Kerry promised (without further explanation) "no more `Rwandas'" during a campaign debate, even though it was his own Party that turned its back on the genocide.
Is a pile of 800,000 skulls in that distant African nation the legacy of Bill Clinton, the "first Black President?" The fact that he refused to prevent the slaughter and took steps to impede the international community from intervention in order to avoid political risk is a shameless stain on both his Presidency and his Party.
Or perhaps another candidate for Clinton's legacy, as Lowry suggests, might be the images of Wall Street executives led away in handcuffs by Bush Justice Department officials, after the excesses of the 1990's came to light and the average investor woke up with a hangover that began before Clinton had left office.
The smoldering ruins in Manhattan are another possibility that Lowery supports.
It could be the Republican Congress, which has been quite resilient under both Clinton and Bush. It could be Bush himself, who would not have been the 9/11 President had Democrats asked Clinton to step down when it became evident that he had broken the very act that he signed into law by obstructing justice and lying to everyone from the jury to the public.
Clinton compromised the Democratic Party and nearly every faction that makes up Leftist America, from radical feminists, who excused the worst excesses of sexual harassment, to partisans who remained quiet about the growing wealth gap and an economic boom that paid lasting dividends only to the rich. Will Democrats ever be able to keep a straight face when they rail about greed, sexual harassment, campaign finance reform, integrity in government or more than a half dozen other issues over which Clinton forced them to exercise the most blatant hypocrisy in the 1990's?
Read the book!
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Summary: As Honest a Book as George W. Bush
Review: This book is filled with the same type of honesty and integrity as demonstrated by George W. Bush. Just as we've discovered Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, just as Dick Cheney has proved there was a connection between Sadaam and Osama Bin Laden, just as George W. Bush was working tirelessly to protect us from terrorism from January to September 2001, just as incomes for people making less than $50,000 a year have risen in the past four years, just as the dollar has stengthened against all foreign currencies in the past four years as America's deficit has decreased, just as Walmart fully supports unions SO
this book tells of the accomplishments of Clinton.
Please note that all the statements in this homeric simile --- just as ..... --- are completely false. They are only as true as the math equation: 2 + 2 = 5,750,325
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Summary: Refreshing
Review: For some, being truthful is considered to be a character asset.
For Bill Clinton and his supporters, an honorable and truthful human being is considered to be just another Bible thumping, do-gooder out to undermine their liberal aspirations.
The White House belongs to the people. Clinton used it as his personal playboy mansion & hollywood harem.
Clinton, as most liberals, loathed the military.
So, much that he put a freeze on military pay. Thousands of our military men and women ended up on welfare, food stamps and Wic.
He used the military for liberal social cause. The morale was almost non existant.
Overused military equipment was in terrible shape, with everything from trucks to aircraft being cannibalized for spare parts. Key officers and enlisted men with specialties in essential categories in short supply, such as pilots, were leaving the armed forces in droves.
The frantic pace of deployments by a commander in chief who "loathed" the military, slashed defense spending, forced U.S. troops to serve under foreign commanders, and subjected them to the indictment and prosecution of an International Criminal Court, caused serious declines in readiness and morale.
On top of everything else, Clinton also allowed access to burial plots to be sold in military cemeteries. He had absolutely no respect for our military men & women.
Potential adversaries recognized the fact that in cutting military capability so radically, America had provided them with new opportunities, new hope of defeating us in a future war.
President Ronald Reagan preached "peace through strength." And it worked. President Clinton not only took a wrecking ball to the finest armed forces in the world, he demoralized them with politically correct social experimentation and hopeless global "peace" crusades.
Instead of preserving American world dominance, Clinton sought to strengthen the U.N. for a future when America was no longer the world's dominant superpower. This view created a culture of internationalism and allowed enemies to flourish. The U.N.'s ineffective response to Saddam's violations, and their corruption in the oil for food scandal show this policy's failure.
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Summary: is objectivity sometimes a goal in books about politics?
Review: this is a real work to explain that all good aspects of clinton years cannot be credited to the president and that all of the dark side of this period and the bush years are the fault of clinton. is there something interesting in such a book? the author could have written a book which explains that dot com crash and 9/11 is because of bush it would not have been more or less interesting: just stupid.
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Summary: Must-Read for Political Scientists and Historians
Review: While he details the major events of the Clinton administration in LEGACY, Rich Lowry unravels one of the great mysteries of American politics in the late 20th century -- the incongruity between the obvious weakness of the presidency and the apparent strength of the country, leading to major lapses in the nation's economy and security late in the Clinton administration.
If you want to understand American politics as it is practiced at the turn of the millenium, you must read and understand this book. With meticulous footnotes and documentation, Lowry shows how, despite his self-obsessed weakness, president Bill Clinton successfully maneuvered around the plethora of obstacles he created for himself, remaining in office and clinging to his minority base of popular support.
The true legacy of Bill Clinton is the blueprint he created for how a liberal Democrat can succeed in politics and stay in office, sometimes even in spite of himself. Here you can learn how to use a sex scandal to distract the media from your more onerous doings, how to take credit for anything that seems to be going right and to dodge the blame for things that are going awry. And, most significant for political scientists, the importance of keeping your plurality while creating an apathetic majority among the electorate so that you can be reelected.
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Summary: Can you still respect this Administration after this???
Review: If you don't already know the definition of disgusting read this book! This Administration, starting with Clinton and all of his staff and cabinet fits that description to a tee. Too bad that this group of intellectual thugs couldn't care as much for America as they did their personal little agendas or in Clinton's case his total last of respect for the people that elected him. The sex scandal was the least of his crimes against his country. He might as well have handed us all over to the terrorists! They were only concerned with the silly little projects, and he seemed to have let each and every department in the government run amuck. Racial profiling, feminism, environmental nonsenses (spanish speaking turtles??), egos and sex, sex sex! That was what lead in those days. Why didn't they even TRY to protect this country? I am very very angry after reading this. I had known that he was a weak ineffective leader, I had not realized that he was a downright criminal. There is page after page of notes so no one can say that these facts were not well researched. And to think, that if we are all very lucky this great treasonist might just return to the White House agsin someday as the First Mate!!
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Summary: it won't change any minds
Review: It is now more important now more than ever to read this, now the Bill Clinton's autobiography is out.The Clinton's don't want you to read this book. The book shows what a wimp Clinton is and how is could not defend the USA. You won't know the truth about Clinton until you read this book.
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