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The Case Against Hillary Clinton

The Case Against Hillary Clinton

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Angry white woman with a ten-ton agenda
Review: Noonan has long been one of the GOP flacks dedicated to fuelingwhite working-class resentment of "elitist" liberal Democrats, so Hillary Clinton is a natural target. For a perceptive review of the book, go to Salon.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 1000 points of idiocy
Review: Peggy Noonan hasn't ever recovered from her prediction that Bill Clinton would lose in 1996. The resentments that have clearly built up in her since then have resulted in this condescending, unbalanced, unintentionally-hilarious and ineptly-written diatribe against his wife. However, it could serve as the basis for a satiric monologue about a bitter and irrelevant woman jealous of another woman's success.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: An Extremely Compelling Book
Review: This is a compelling and revealing book by Peggy Noonan a former Reagan speechwriter who coined the term, "A Thousand Points of Light." However, it is not compelling for the reasons intended by the author. After reading Noonan's book, I'm certain that the story reported that Mrs. Clinton "has vowed not to read" Noonan's book is is a hoax used to drum up publicity for the book. There is nothing for Mrs. Clinton to fear about Mrs. Noonan's self-described "polemic" ("whiny screed" would be a more accurate description). This book is nothing but a cut-and-paste rehash of old half-baked charges along with Noonan's dime store psychoanalysis (Gail Sheehy's writing is bad enough; do we really need other writers to ape her style?).

Noonan's disdain for Mrs. Clinton distorts her judgement. This is of little surprise to anyone familiar with Noonan's rants in her Wall Street Journal op-ed pieces. There is no evidence in this book that the author's knowledge of Mrs. Clinton goes beyond what is broadcast on right-wing talk radio. For instance, Noonan argues that under the Clintons, "children live in a coarser, more dangerous place." This is bombast. Murder rates are at a 30-year low and juvenile crime is much lower than it was when Bill Clintons took office. In fact, crime rates were so high during Noonan's Paradise Lost, the Reagan and Bush years, that Noonan's catchphrase, "a thousand points of light" could aptly describe the flashes of gunfire in urban areas during the 1980's and early 1990's.

I was especially amused when Noonan accused the Clintons of having added "a new level of sourness, cynicism, and confusion to our politics and our culture." That is a curious observation by a Wall Street Journal editorial writer. The WSJ editorial page has become the home for every crackpot conspiracy theory about the Clintons (the book, "The Hunting of the President" thoroughly documents the Journal's biased and unfair editorial page). Frankly, being accused of poisoning the political climate by a Wall Street Journal editorial writer is like having been called flirtatious by Wilt Chamberlain.

Noonan's armchair psychoanalysis reveals more about Noonan's psyche than it does about Mrs. Clinton. Take this gem: "Often when I watch the Clintons, I think I perceive a profound joylessness, an almost glassy-eyed containment, or distance. It's as if they don't have a facade, they've become a facade. You sense a depression on his part and an anger on hers." I have an alternative hypothesis: Noonan's grim intuitions are the projection of the bitterness and frustrations of a dour right-wing ideology that Americans are not buying anymore. Furthermore, when Noonan tries to caricature Mrs. Clinton as empty, she succeeds only in demonstrating that her book is as shallow as her "thousand points of light" catchphrase was when Noonan coined it to conceal George Bush's lack of ideas. This book should be re-titled, "A Thousand Points of Spite."

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The truth about socialism
Review: Although we can poke fun at anyone, Peggy Noonan's observations are more precise than not. The truth is, there are those who wish to conquer and control and will sell your freedoms to do so. Hillary Clinton is one such socialist and completely out of touch with the real American. Thank you Peggy for your recognition of the malevolence.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Thank God for the Truth
Review: Noonan has done a wonderful job of describing what most of us have come to know over the last seven years. I thank God that someone has put into words what Clintonism and its founders have done to this country. This is a must read for anyone who wants the unvarnished truth about Hillary Clinton, and without the left-leaning filtering that the media usually performs when it comes to the Clintons.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TRUTH IS NOT ALWAYS PRETTY
Review: Peggy Noonan will not be the "poster girl" within the base eatablishment of the "Left" regardless of what she writes about Hillary Clinton. Her motives and basis for this current publication are not an issue, only the fact that her work is truthfull and accurate. In this case, I thank her for the courage to present the real "Hillary" and to counter a seemingly biased media. Keep telling the truth Peggy regardless of the political affiliations. Enjoy reading the book

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Facade is Finally Lifted.
Review: Well done Ms.Noonan. As always the truth when presented in an insightful and unvarnished manner makes this book an enjoyable read.Deep down whatever the private agenda of any reader, when confronted by the facts,fundamental truth will always prevail in the end.Bravo. Bravo. .

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wonderful insight
Review: This is a very good book that opens a lot of peoples' eyes to the woman behind the man.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Must Read
Review: What a great and wonderful book! This book should be required reading for all voters in the State of New York. Hillary has vowed not to read the book and has told the people she controls not to read it or let her see the book. What a transparent way not to have to answer questions and concerns raised in the book, and what a powerful endorsement of the book. It must have hit very close to the mark.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not One Original Thought
Review: I bought this book hoping I might get some insight into the emotions and life of a First Lady. Instead it is a hatchet job just like that Olsen book. What a hack.


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