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Summary: Lies about a Great Lady
Review: Hillary is truly one of the great socialist women of the 20th century. That bourgeois freedom-loving Noonan should be set adrift on a raft somewhere. This book is already banned in North Korea and at UC Berkeley!
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Summary: The Case Against Hillary Clinton
Review: Peggy Noonan is as unbiased towards Hillary Clinton as she is towards Anita Hill. She needs a reality check.
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Summary: Short, powerful, by fermed
Review: Peggy Noonan's book does not explore new territory about this awful woman. Most people who are interested already know the sordid facts about her political ascent, about her lust for power, and about her fundamental mendacity. William Safire has called her a "congenital liar" in print, and he was probably being restrained at that. Noonan's work is a meditation on the nature of evil as it is embodied in this woman. It is a short and powerful indictment.For those interested in examining the pernicious effect of Hillary upon her followers, do read the comments of her partisans, below. Not a single one offers any factual argument against the book they pillorize. If any reasons to lambaste the book are stated, they are "ad hominem" arguments, attacks against Ms. Noonan; never a comment on what she says. One can only hope that New Yorkers will use, to the nation's advantage, the opportunity to educate Miss Hillary come November. It will take not a village but an entire state to stop this horror.
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Summary: Oh Please!
Review: Can a First Lady who has the temerity to not have an astrologer really replace Al D'Amato? Probably not, according to a former Reagan speechwriter. That is the latest theme of the new rash of anti-Hillary screeds to we are being besieged with. Noonan breaks no new ground here. We are left with picture of Hillary as a chronic underachiever who can do nothing right. However, if Hilary is elected she will singal-handedly take the entire country down the path of world socialism. (Easy work for underachievers). You would think that Clinton critics would haved learned one thing in the last eight years. Mainly that the Clintons thrive on the excesses of their enemies. While the Silly Billy Bennetts and Peggy Noonans rant on, Bill and Hillary keep right on winning elections. If Hillary wins or loses this fall it will not be because of this book. Ms. Noonan take a valium!
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Summary: The Best Indictment of the Clintons Yet
Review: With the precision of a prosecuting attorney and the eloquence of a Keltic bard, Peggy Noonan gives us the most well written indictment of the Clintons yet. All of their banal evil is laid bare for even the most thick headed Clinton sychophant to view. It was wonderfull to read this book, but sad that it had to be written.
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Summary: A voice in the wilderness
Review: How interesting that so many of those who have responded negatively to this book, have done so in the most petty and mean-spirited of ways. And how interesting that they do not address the facts of the book (because, of course, they can't; those facts are laid out in a clear, logical and, gosh darn it, irrefutable way), but by launching ad hominem attacks on the author. "Hack", "stalker", "wants to make a buck", etc. do not a riveting book review make. Peggy Noonan is a lot of things, but anyone who has ever read any of her books, or heard her speak, knows that "hack" is not one of them. This book is an eloquently written piece on a woman who has been, and wishes to continue to be, in a position to wield significant power and influence on the lives of the American people. Her modus operandi, as seen through the many fully documented and clearly presented examples, is consistent and ruthless. She is posessed of neither the moral character, nor the intellectual superiority to which she lays claim. Americans in general, and New Yorkers in particular, need to know these things. I have always wondered why the Clintons made me feel so...icky...as though there was a bug crawling on me as I slept - vaguely aware that something was wrong, but just groggy enough not to be able to identify the unwelcome visitor. I have been awakened by Peggy Noonan's book, and for that, I am eternally grateful.
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Summary: Articulate unmasking of our "As-If" First Family
Review: It is very difficult to write a persuasive review of this book. The American people seem to have polarized on the Clintons. Perhaps one-third think the Clintons are the most corrupt figures in generations, surpassing even the Harding administration. Perhaps one-third believe either that the Clintons are great idealists who have done a wonderful job, or that they should be defended because the opposition is even worse. Probably at least one-third are sick of the whole business and don't want to hear about it any more. Still, there have been so many books published about Bill and Hillary that it is hard to escape notice. Peggy Noonan has written a book that is at once polite, respectful, contemptuous, articulate, too cute, insightful, banal, penetrating, and boring. How could a gifted writer like Noonan pull off such a contradiction? I think it is because she is trying so hard to give Hillary credit where it is due (which Noonan does give generously) while also trying to tone down her contempt (which is barely disguised). In a sense this book is an open letter to the voters of New York to put a halt to Clintonism. Yet it is written in a style that would appeal more to readers of The New Yorker than to readers of The New York Post or New York Daily News. It seems to me that the readers who could appreciate the style are already mostly in the Hillary camp. When my wife and I first saw Bill Clinton in the 1992 Presidential debates we thought him to be an "As-If" personality. This is a personality configuration in which an individual has no real core identity, but instead acts "as-if." As if he really believed what he said, as if he were truly compassionate, as if he were actually brave, etc. It seemed to us that Bill Clinton's strength and weakness was simultaneously that he loved the political process yet had no core convictions other than winning. In a sense this can be good in that it can lead to flexibility and pragmatism. It can also be bad if it turns a leader into a chameleon. If you have no true core self then you must rely on polls to tell you what will win. If you are extremely gifted as a chameleon you can believe your own deceptions and this lie with total conviction. Compared with other books about Hillary Clinton, Noonan's book is rather mild. Gail Sheehey's book is riddled with even more psychologizing than Noonan's. Barbara Olson's is a more stinging indictment. Actually, Noonan's psychological references are quite strong, and one of the best chapters is the one in which she quotes the great psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg on the subject of pathological narcissism. Reading the other previous reviews convinces me that America is irrevocably divided on the Clintons. Perhaps future historians, even when armed with data that has been held back thus far from public view, may also remain divided. The book ends on a poignant note. Noonan states that the voters of New York will decide about Hillary's future before Hillary gets to decide their future. Given the constant high ratings of the Clintons I was left with the feeling that Hillary will get the last laugh. Finally, this is the only review I have ever written anonymously. Considering it is about the Clintons, you can figure out why.
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Summary: Not quite hate, but resentment.
Review: After reading Ms. Noonan's featherweight work on Hillary Clinton, I am reminded of all the other right wing hacks who have come to hate the Clintons for being so successful. This country has rewarded the foward-thinking centrism of Bill and Hillary Clinton with approval ratings that put even Ronnie Reagan to shame. That is the essential dillema Ms. Noonan and her co-conspirators face. It's nice to know the American mainstream has rejected this uglier part of the conservative movement. I hope the John McCain forces can reshape a party that once had a proud tradition. Instead they've settled for George W. Will Ms. Noonan be on-board to write junior's cue-cards?
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Summary: GOP 101....Write A Book Which Psychoanalizes Hillary Clinton
Review: As a recent review of this book by Sean Elder points out, the book appears to be the required homework assignment of the GOP loyalty squad. As with the entire current genre of Hillary tomes, "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" adds nothing but speculation about the writer's obsession. Face it, the tries to peel away layers of the "real" Hillary. But how does it do this? On a slew of opinion articles written by mostly other GOP operatives. Ms. Noonan destroyed her credibility when she wrote President Reagan's contra speech. In it, you might recall, she referred to the contras as "freedom fighters...like our founding fathers." Well, we have since found the contras to be more like our founding Godfathers. This book does nothing to restore her credibility.
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Summary: Smartly written. On target.
Review: I've read the book and facts are stubborn things. It's clever to write a review asserting that the book is Sean Hannity with a thesaurus, but the book is not just opinion. It's about facts. Facts that won't go away. Hillary's two major policy initiatives, health care and education in Arkansas, were complete failures. And they both say volumes about how she would govern. The Travel office scandal is also instructive. Rather than just remove the people under the President's patronage power she had to ruin them with false accusations and a criminal trial. Miss Noonan touches on the cattle futures scam. The failure of the American people to understand that these arranged trades were nothing more than a bribe still stuns me. And Hillary had the gall not to pay all the income tax on her bribes. I doubt the Clintons would have pulled that crime off in New York. Chapter five is brillant. I laughed out loud. Twice. The author also raises a very important point with her culture of death reference and fish analogy. The best thing she does is that she pre-empts many of Hillary's upcoming campaign tricks and scams. Maybe the elite media will call Hillary on it. Did you ever wonder why HRC has so many different hairstyles? Answer provided by Noonan. Her point about honest liberals is well-taken. I don't agree with Senator Bob Kerrey but I respect him. Not the Clinton-Gore crowd. They called him a "cripple" and threw mud at him in NH. It's all about power for the Clintons. And less freedom for you. Because we aren't as smart as the Clintons and their crowd. She's already been to Nebraska getting money from Warren Buffett. But first she stopped in a local store, Borsheim's, to buy china and silverware. I guess the New York stores weren't good enough. Or maybe she didn't want to pay the high NY sales tax.
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