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Summary: Moderate shock value, competent writing
Review: Two years ago this may have been an important book, but today this remains one of those books (like those of Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Buchanan) primarily for people who still wake up each morning determined to see to it that the Clinton legacy is a little more tarnished before sundown. The main issue here is the Clintons' truly aggregious use of pardon priveleges to pay back political supporters. However, this point will probably lose its shock value for objective readers, when we consider the number of G.W. Bush campaign contributors (several of them former Enron execs and execs from other failed energy concerns) who seemingly bought their way into President Bush's cabinet and administration with no apparent skills for the jobs they assumed. Thus, many readers may have already concluded that while Clinton repaid his supporters on the back end of his administration, Bush entered office paying his supporters on the front end, and in realizing this most readers have probably already resigned themselves to the fact that this (sadly) is just business as usual. So, most readers who pick this book up today will probably not be alarmed by the contents.The book is also less shocking considering the pardons of Clinton's predecessor, Bush Senior, who pardoned those convicted in the Iran-Contra scandals who did their best to conceal the involvement of both Bush Sr. and Ronald Reagan. Some might say that this was worse than all Clinton's pardons combined. President Reagan also left office declaring that all states would raise their drinking age to 21 or else lose federal highway funds, a coersive abuse of state's rights which cost many states millions of dollars in litigation. Some might say that this was a more flagrant abuse of power than the national monuments established by Clinton when he left office (later repealed by GW Bush). While Olson makes a minor note of such details, she plays them down to make it appear as though Clinton invented the last-minute abuse of power. These and many of the other highlights detailed in Olson's work were reported by White House correspondents for National Public Radio, and quite thoroughly debated on N.P.R. if not other news outlets. So, this is not necessarily "exclusive" material, mostly old news colored with a conservative spin.
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Summary: A disgusting story about disgusting people
Review: What an important book for "centrists" to read. The American public knew what it was getting in the Clintons, so they can't complain. All they can do is not to make the mistake again when Hilliary runs. Do not doubt that she will. Her lust for ultimate power will not be satisfied until she claims the presidency. As Olson says late in the book, "At a time when the United States stood as the world's only superpower, the Clintons exercised presidential power as if they ruled an emerging third world dictatorship. Pardoning a brother and an ex-girlfriend, pardoning billionaire fugitives, allowing drug kingpins to buy influence, buying votes, and acting like an abosulte monarch - these are the actions of tin-horn autocrats in less respected countries." Live (and read) and learn so the same mistake is not made again. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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Summary: The Last Days Of America's Worst President Exposed
Review: I would like to say to the last reviewer that he has a lot of nerve to complain about the "hate" in Barbara Olson's book (without once documenting any specifics) and then in the same breath declare how glad he is that she was a victim of the tragedy of September 11 because it means that her voice has now been silenced. It's that kind of perverted double standard in the ranks of the American Left that people like Barbara felt the need to speak out against, and in her last work she does a masterful job of showing how the stench of corruption that was the Clinton Administration carried up to the last minute.
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Summary: Just plain bad.
Review: I'm no fan of the Clintons. Not by any stretch. In fact, I really, really don't like them. But that doesn't mean I have to pay blind fealty to every book criticizing them. In fact, some anti-Clinton books are just plain bad. This is one of them. There's no doubt that the last days of the Clinton Administration were marked by truly strange events: pardons-for-hire, vandalism at the White House, blizzards of new regulations, even an unprecedented, overblown ceremony in a hangar at Andrews Air Force Base upon which the new ex-President insisted as a sendoff. All that has been documented, and documented well. Unfortunately, the late Ms. Olson wasn't content to stick to the facts and the law. Rather, she descends into bitter polemics, resorting to ad hominem insults, some of which are rather childish and embarrassing. A more scholarly, and more sober, analysis of the last-minute antics of the Clintons would have been far more convincing. And Ms. Olson, a former Federal prosecutor, was quite capable of such. Moreover, this book was obviously rushed to print and given only cursory attention by Regnery's editorial staff; it's filled with typographic errors and poor sentence construction. I, like many Americans, was shocked to learn that Ms. Olson was killed in the attack on the Pentagon on September 11. I truly did appreciate her commentary. Unfortunately, this book does not do justice to her legacy.
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Summary: The Ultimate Price
Review: That the citizens of NY could be duped into voting for Hillary Clinton still amazes me.From Co President Bill Clintons pardoning of the Puerto Rican terrorists to ostensibly get the N.Y.Puerto Rican vote for Hillary,to her vote dealings with the Hasidic Jews in a quid pro quo affair where the payment was made in Bills final day in office,should turn every freedom loving American's stomach over.That the American media wouldn't cover this ,can only be explained after reading another very good book,Bernard Goldberg's"Bias".Read this book then buy a copy of "Bias"...
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Summary: Political pamphlet
Review: Where this tome may provide some entertainment on a dull flight, don't fool yourself into thinking that this is a 'Book'. Political pamphlet is the better term and a rather crude one at that. The author's extreme right wing philosophy drips from every page (no exaggeration)thereby destroying any credibility her statements might otherwise have.
No biased rumor is too vague, no 'liberal' intention too suspicious to serve as a reliable basis for pointing the finger at another 'liberal outrage'. That the man, Clinton, might have any redeeming value at all is too preposterous to contemplate.
No matter what your political views are, this is a junky book, probably written in less time than your flight.
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Summary: Clinton Was Bad Man
Review: Olson had a spectacularly successful career as a "Clinton is a Bad Man" commentator. Of the thousands of "Clinton is a Bad Man" commentators that graced our cable channels throughout the riveting Lewinsky Cigar scandal, Olson was definitely one of them. Noone can refute that among her CIABM colleagues, she was one of them. And now, even from the netherworld, she continues her vital "CIABM" work.
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Summary: Well written well researched & outrageous
Review: It's sad to know that Barbara Olson was killed on 9/11 with other great American heroes but it makes sense she was on the plane that went down in Shanksville, PA; the only plane that valiantly took on it's terrorists. It's sad because it means that no more books will be penned by this solid investigative reporter & I think that is something as a nation we need. And yet the Clinton "mandarin" dynasty is not unique to the USA and if you wonder how those under dictatorships elsewhere keep their mouth closed and just muddle on, read Olson's book and learn about the Clinton era where everyone ignored his abuse of power because there was a 'feel-good' bubble economy going on. It's no different in those other dictatorships; it's a relative answer. All in all this is a greatly disturbing dark tale; one that gives no hope to the USA marching on the road to serfdom, because of the incredible amount that the Clintons stole & got away. In fact it portends something far worse the 'informed' populace looks no brighter now then it was then, still listening to the Media and their self-interest & still being denuded of their rights for a miniscule 'spoil' of the riches.
An incredible story; how can this be true? How could this be America? Nixon & Watergate was small potatoes compared to this outrageous horror story.
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Summary: Amnesia from the left exposed again!
Review: Just when you think you know all the slime about the Clinton's, you read another, well documented book on their partnership with the devil. How anyone could vote for any Clinton after reading this book defies reason. It would be nice to see an equally researched rebuttal from the left so folks like me can remain fair. It's too bad we lost a writer like Barbara Olson. Educate yourself and read the book while checking out the validity of her sources.
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Summary: Top notch, Babs!
Review: Barbara Olson writes with a style that is engrosing and entertaining while never straying from the facts. On Sept. 11th, an angel earned her wings.
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