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Summary: No laughing matter to say the very least!
Review: I always viewed Bill Clinton as being a great politician and I don't think some people won't disagree with that... BUT his character's weaknesses, his lack of self control (sexually speaking)his lies, not to mention his bad judgment regarding the pardons he gave to corrupt crooks, make me wonder why on earth that guy was elected for a second term. But,if Mrs. Olson would be with us today, I wonder what she would say about what's going on today with Mr.G.W.Bush... I don't think any president was an angel and each and everyone of them had their weaknesses and we are not going to go into that, because everyone knows... so Bill Clinton was not better or worst than any other president before him.
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Summary: She defended the truth.
Review: I will always remember Barbara appearing on the evening cable news shows as the sole defender of truth and what is moral in public life while being shouting down by the trial lawyers-defense bar. But Barbara gave us her writings, uninterupted by those who tried to defend to indefensible. God bless you.
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Summary: A Right-Wing Tool
Review: While I'm not a fan of political books, this one was good when Ms. Olson stuck to the facts. There were a few times that she seemed to go off on a "Rush Limbaugh-type" tangent and had no evidence to offer for what she was speaking of. A few of her bibliography references weren't accurate or were taken out of context. It is clear from reading this book that this author was biased and VERY Republican. That took away from my experience.Just to be fair, if you insist on reading this book, you should also get "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. While Ms. Olson may talk about the "abuses" of the Clinton administration, you should read the abuses of the current Bush administration! It wasn't as if Clinton were the only one to abuse his powers while in office, and I'm sure he won't be the last.
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Summary: vindictive
Review: stinking point of view from one of the right wing clique.
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Summary: H-Rod and Three-dollar Bill
Review: Barbara Olson wrote this comprehensive guide to fraud, malfeasance, and deception in the Clinton White before she was tragically killed by the 9/11 terrorists. While there is not a lot of new information here, Olson puts the sordid tale in perspective and adds much useful analysis and commentary. Especially useful is her take on the 24th hour Clinton pardons, which the main-stream media chose to cover lightly, if at all. There is clear evidence here of an influence peddling scandal with these 2001 pardons, with the most flagrant case involving fugitive Marc Rich. After reading this, one must ask how did the Clintons win all those elections, especially the New York Senate race, after Mrs. Clinton was clearly exposed by eight years of negative reports. My only concern now is that it might be possible for one of the Clintons to win another national election. Like Rocky or Freddy Krueger, we may find them back again, if not enough Americans read this book. The sections on Mrs. Clinton's ethical lapses are outstanding as well. Again, I think that the main-stream press did not adequately cover that Mrs. Clinton violated Senate rules in taking a large advance on a book deal. Technically the rules do not apply to a senator-elect and apparently no rules apply to the sitting First Lady. Remember that Newt Gingrich was nearly run out of town for taking a much smaller book advance.
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Summary: A "Tabloid Presidency" uncovered...
Review: The first in what I'm sure will become numerous accounts of the final days of the Bill Clinton administration, Barbara Olson presents a scathing and eye-opening narrative of the disturbing and at the same time fascinating closing of Clinton's 8 years in office. Notwithstanding Olson's untimely death aboard the plane that struck the Pentagon on 9/11 and the fervent rush to immortalize her, this book should still be popular years later for all who are curious about these final, confusing days. Written in "news-reporter" style, this story is based on solid reporting and research and stands as the definitive account of Clinton's actions as he vacated the Presidency. This book covers approximately the last quarter of Clinton's term and documents one un-believeable story after another as Clinton embarks on a "pardon frenzy" while he and Hillary "loot" the White House of it's furniture, china...etc. Famous and not-so-famous recieve pardons as Clinton administers 140 Presidential pardons and 36 commutations in record time closing out his administration. Olson's enmity towards the First Couple is at times almost overbearing as she catalouges each Clinton action and the reasons why each was so repulsive. Hillary also recieves her share of the blame as Olson continues her vehement dislike of the First Lady (started in Olson's previous book "Hell To Pay") while documenting the absurd political maneuvering the Clintons performed while trying to get Hillary elected to the Senate. Nmerous contemporary interviews are included that add depth to these charges, while also making for fascinating reading. For example, former Jimmy Carter Chief-of-Staff Hamilton Jordan states the following: " 'It is incredible that the ethical atmosphere of the Clinton White House had sunk to a level whereby the constitutional power of a president to issue a pardon was discussed among Mr. Clinton and his White House staff as just one more perk of office.' Clinton, he said, had disgraced and demeaned his office by treating the pardon power in the same manner as giving campaign contributors overnight stays in the Lincoln bedroom or flights aboard Air Force One. The Clinton's, he went on, 'are not a couple but a business partnership, not based on love or even greed but on shared ambitions...The Clinton's only loyalty is to their own ambitions.' " A fairly fast read (I read this in a 4 day weekend while on vacation) and written in that news reporter "to-the-point" style, this account should be read by all who are even mildly interested in politics as it shows how the abuses of power have virtually destroyed Bill Clinton's legacy and continue to make Hillary Clinton's Senate term suspect.
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Summary: Great details
Review: This book is great. Inside Olson reveals how Bill Clinton used his final days in office to pardon convicted murders, terrorists, cop killers, family friends, and seemingly anyone else that could afford his pardon. Moreover, she shows how money hungry the Clintons were/are by the blant use of accepting money for bedrooms in the white house, pardons, and nuclear information. This book reveals the shameless acts of the Clintons while in office. The Clintons looted the White House when they left. They took items that were given specifically to the white house, and yet when they left the white house they took them as gifts as there own! Someone talked about the numbers not being arcuate, that there are better sources out there. But where is Barbara Olson wrong? Where are her numbers wrong? Is it when she reveals Bill Clinton spent over a ½ billion dollars on trips to other countries while in office? Or is when Olson reveals the 140 people pardoned by Bill? Maybe Olson was wrong when she reported on the 8 million dollar advance Hillary would receive from her book deal? Please! If you are going to proclaim the facts are wrong, at least have enough fortitude to show why. If you are just going to blow smoke, then perhaps you are better off not revealing your name at all. It sure must be nice to remain anonymous when you make claims that has no creditability at all.
Overall, a great book with the main focus on the pardons. It is a shame Mrs. Olson is no longer here today. Her work is really top notch and is worth reading.
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Summary: There are better sources
Review: As a writer Olson lacks the dedication to detail and fact checking that are the mark of a good historian. I've done quite a bit of studying of the Clinton years and I've read a lot of books about his abuses of power. However too many of them lose site of the truth in their quest to convict. Now I don't like Clinton one bit - but there is no point inventing facts when the truth is damning enough. If you want to read a factual account of the Clinton scandals with a conservative viewpoint, dig up some old National Review magazines at your public library. This book does more to help the Clintons (by including so many glary errors and off topic rants) than to impress the reader on their crimes. A sorry state of affairs really.
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Summary: A nice single volume summary of the Bill & Hillary Scandals
Review: This thin volume provides a nice summary of the many scandals of Bill and Hillary Clinton. It does spend some time on well documented and well known scandals, but the core of the book is the pardons Bill Clinton provided during his last days in office. The extravagantly outrageous pardons of Marc Rich and Pincus Green receive detailed attention. The author also takes us through the pardons of drug dealers who had ties to the Clintons through relatives and political cronies who also got off. The book details how the Justice Department was circumvented and/or ignored as these pardons were decided on and why Clinton's pardons fall far outside the customary guidelines and procedures for Presidential Pardons. I particularly enjoyed the summary of the lame excuses and rationalizations provided by Bill and Hillary when the public expressed outrage. But it saddened me that the Clintons new their supporters could be counted on to forget their outrage and line up behind them again. Of course, the Clintons know their supporters. The book also provides a good documentation of all the gifts the Clintons shamelessly solicited and received in their last days in office when Hillary had that window as first lady and before she became the junior senator from New York. Then, with nary a twinge of conscience she said she would vote for legislation that would prevent new senators from engaging in the behavior she was busy completing. Amazing! It is no secret that the author, who was murdered by terrorists on 9/11 in the jet that was crashed into the Pentagon, had no love or admiration for the Clintons and that most of the readers of this book will also fall into that category. However, I think that it will provide a nice single volume summary of the Clinton Scandals for those who come later and want to read about the strange presidency of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Summary: Amazing Chronicle of the Abomination that is Bill Clinton!
Review: The late Barbara Olson chronicles in expert fashion and honest conservative journalistic style the many horrific and unspeakable travesties perpetrated by Bill and Hillary at the tumultous conclusion to their 8 year co-presidency. I read in horror and shock as the business partnership, not anything remotely resembling a couple, that is Bill and Hillary, or PLOTUS and FLOTUS as Barbara succintly refers to them as, time and time again committed heinous injustices. "Not since the opening of the gates of the Bastille have so many criminals been liberated on a single day." On his infamous last day as Commander-in-Chief, Clinton granted 140 highly dubious pardons along with 36 commutations to bring to a deplorable record grand total of 450 for his tawdry tenure of depravity. Olson masterfully documents the infamous Marc Rich as Clinton pardons the #6 Most Wanted Fugitive by the Justice Department saying that the biggest tax defrauder in U.S. history, who by the way had renounced his U.S. citizenship and was conveniently "living abroad" and whose ex-wife channeled countless donations and gifts to the Prez, was "wrongly indicted". Among the shady and unscrupulous criminals pardoned were Bill's cocaine-snorting and habitually law-breaking half-brother Roger Clinton, as well as ex-lover Susan McDougal, drug king pins(whom Clinton had pledged to put away only 8 years ago apparently in meanignless campaign rhetoric, notorious cop killers, convicted anti-American terrorists, and a slew of other so-called unfairly indicted miscreants. Olson tells of the ostensibly coincidental(as Hillary calls it) DNC, Senate, and Clinton Library contributions and gifts well in excess of a million dollars that were gratiously received by Bill and Hillary in exchange for the unethical and as if it matters to Bill - highly illegal as well -quid pro quo deals for immunity and pardons. From the Secret Service's codename for Roger(Headache) to the White House Lawn Marines' refusal to right face when the draft-dodging, military-gutting Clinton walked past(and how they miraculously reconvened the first day of George W. Bush's tenure) are just a couple of the insider tidbits that the articulate and dearly missed Barbara Olson conveys to the reader in this entertaining and informative short read. The benefits and knowledge of the real & unadulterated truth - the stuff the liberal media conveniently let slip through the cracks - proves worth the little time needed to read this compelling book.
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