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Summary: A Pathetic Polemic Based On Venom and Not Facts
Review: I was really curious as to what were the "desparate abuses of power" compelling Ms. Olson's "outrage." I was shocked to find that President Clinton did such awful things as continue to do his job until the end of his term by visiting trading partners and issuing regulations that had been in the works for years (and required by law). My favorite "abuse" is her chapter on Clinton's trip to Vietnam. Ms. Olson screams that this was a waste of taxpayer dollars as the U.S. has absolutely no interest in Vietnam since they are a poor country and therefore cannot buy any U.S. goods. I'm sure the American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi and Saigon (whose members include Catapillar, Citibank, Compaq, Ford, GE Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, Unisys and many others) got a good laugh over this one. The most troubling thing about this book is that its sole purpose was "a last desperate" effort to spew one last ounce of venom at a twice elected President whom the right refused to recognize as President. Instead of discrediting President Clinton, this book only shows how mean-spirited, petty and undemocratic the Republican right have become. What September 11 has taught us is that we need to move beyond petty attitudes such as Ms. Olson's and Tom Delay's that Clinton was not their President. We are one country inspired and united by a Constitution providing for a single President for all Americans.
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Summary: Summarizing a Sorrowful Legacy
Review: The late Mrs Olson has offered us a thoroughly researched summary of the Clinton's era of public (dis)service in our nations highest office. Her use of quotes by the leftmedia in chapter 13 is of particular interest, for it was only during their final days in office that the blinders seem to have disappeared form the leftmedia's eyes. After reading The Final Days, those who continue to support any Clinton and still champion the legacy left by the sleaziest pair to ever to attain this high office I suggest that red and white striped canes be a requirement. This might cause someone to rescue them from the path of an oncoming truck for surely they can't see it.
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Summary: Two quotes come to mind.
Review: Who was it who said something to the effect that anyone who wants to be president is, because of that desire, unfit to hold the office? Perhaps the more one desires it, the less fit one is. And has anyone ever wanted it more than Bill (and now, Hillary?). The second quote -- or paraphrase, since I don't have the article at hand -- comes from George Will, who said that Bill Clinton was not the worst president we've ever had, but was the worst man to ever hold the office. Olson's book well supports his contention.
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Summary: All Three Rings of the Clinton Circus
Review: The astonishing Clinton administration is brought into greater focus in this hard to put down book. I found myself rereading chapters because I couldn't believe what I had just read. The Clintons were the biggest embarrassments this country has ever or will (hopefully) ever see again. Barbara's writing is excellent though some might find some repetiveness in the chapters but being a loyal Clinton-hater I enjoyed every sentence.
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Summary: They never give up, do they?
Review: The late Barbara Olson, who a few years ago wrote the anti-Hillary screed "Hell to Pay," now gives us "The Final Days," a supposed hot exposé of the winding down of the Clinton Administration. Her choice of title is doubtlessly meant to echo the Watergate-era Woodward-Bernstein book of the same name (which chronicled the downfall and disgrace of Richard Nixon) and is also doubtlessly meant to draw parallels between Nixon and Bill and Hillary Clinton. To Olson, there is no evil too black and no crime too squalid to be associated with the Clintons. She indulges in endless personal attacks, mean-spirited jibes, and rehashed "scandals" which were proven false long ago. She maintains the art of Clinton-hating at an almost pathological level, accusing the Clintons of every imaginable crime under the sun, ranging from murder to treason, with the possible exception of molesting Chelsea. She even manages to exhume Vincent Foster's 1993 suicide, which she and other professional Clinton-haters insist on branding as "suspicious" long after five separate Federal investigations all examined Foster's death and concluded it really was a suicide. She sounds like a bad thriller writer, begging us to keep paying attention to her, throwing around specious accusations of wrongdoing, all the while promising the explosive, convincing piece of evidence that never does appear. Tragically, Olson was killed in the September 11 terror attacks just before the book was published (surprisingly, there were no hints that the Clintons organized the attack just to bump her off), but this has helped insulate the volume from the criticism is so richly deserves. Any critique is answered with an admonition not to speak ill of the dead. And that's a pity, because Olson's final book is a masterpiece of spluttering incoherence, showing a woman so caught up in her own ineffective rage that "The Final Days" reads more like a never-ending free-floating stream of rambling hostility than anything else.
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Summary: Required reading for anyone against Hillary in '04
Review: Barbara Olson is a hero. She actually accomplished something in her life and her last act on this earth was trying to save the lives of those on her doomed plane. She, not the former First Lady had the qualifications to actually be a senator. She got to where she did by hard work and accomplishment. That ethic is brilliantly displayed in the book, "Final Days."
After reading both "Hell to Pay" and "Final Days" it is clear to me that the media has done little to let truth be known about the Clinton regime and its inevitable effects(of it)on the nation's future. The sleazy deals and power grabbing of the last eight years will come back to bite us all hard. This book is sure to shock even the most politically savvy reader. Ms. Olson did not wake up one day and say, "I don't like the Clintons." She formed her opinions from facts she gathered during a federal investigation. The lies, slimy dealings, cover-ups and the ultimate abuse of power--the pardons--will leave any reader doubtless that William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton were not only co-presidents, but also co-conspirators in a myriad of slimy acts which will eventually stain the former President's legacy forever. May Mrs. Olson rest in peace knowing that she was a hero, a true patriot and the absolute antithesis of her subject.
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Summary: The full story on the most corrupt administration...
Review: In the Final Days, Barbara Olson does a superb job of detailing the hideous excesses of power exercised by the Clinton's during their administration. If you always believe that the Clintons were crooks, reading this book will simply justify your conclusion. If, however, you were one of the many people who supported them, read this book at your own peril, as it will show you in detail the various crimes and misdemeandors that the administration was guily of committing.
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Summary: I hope God Blesses Barbara Olsen!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: What a terrible and painful irony that this book should be Barbara Olsen's final work because it was the very same Bill Clinton, who as President did absolutely nothing when given the chance to take down Osama bin Laden. And yet, this book is probably as fine an epitaph as anyone could ever write or conceive. This is a very well documented distillation and revelation of all of the final abuses of power, corruption, pardons, executive orders, outright theft and other felonious behavior by two of the most vile, venal and vindictive people to ever occupy the "People's House" at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia. Some of the other reviewers have dismissed this book as nothing more than a "right wing slam" against the Clintons. They are probably part of the same 42% who elected the thief and liar in the first place and will defend these two depraved criminals till the crack of doom. What they failed to see is that the late Mrs. Olsen was an incredibly fine writer, who unlike her subjects, was possessed of an extraordinarily high degree of character, honor, integrity and personal courage. Something that Slick Willie never, ever had. Mrs. Olsen had the uncanny ability to document her case in the minutest detail and this single volume expose is her legacy to us and to the world of journalism. I say that because Mrs. Olsen was tragically killed when the airliner she was flying on was crashed into the Pentagon by the same terrorist fanatics who attacked the WTC in NYC. Courageous to the end, she called her husband several times to keep him and the nation informed as to what was happening and it was that courage, that grace under pressure that makes her a true Patriot, a hero and an outstanding American. Something neither Slick or Hillary will ever qualify to be called. The really outstanding service that this book provides is the revelation of additional debauched conduct by the power couple that was never released by the mainstream media and the reason for that is obvious. As Bernard Goldberg (himself a liberal) points out in his current bestseller BIAS, the maninstream media is so biased that they would never totally hatchet their darling power couple. This deliberate failure on the part of supposedly professional journalists is despicable. Barbra Olsen, an attorney in the Justice Department and the Senate was a truer, more professional "journalist" than Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw or Charlie Gibson could ever hope to be. This book could be called a labor of love. It is so because Barbara Olsen loved freedom and the United States. She loved and embraced individual liberty and she held fast to her principles that the United States of America was, is and must always remain a nation of laws. The Clintons abused that notion from start to finish and it begs the question: if Bill Clinton lost his law license for 5 years as a result of his vile deeds and obvious lies, why didn't Hillary? After all, she was the co-president and just as culpable in the misconduct that permeated the White House during the 8 year Clinton "reign." What this book also does so magnificently is point out how the American people could be so blind and uncaring about all these crimes and the fact that the press 'white-washed' most of them. It is particularly saddening that much of what we learn here comes to us as a "dying declaration" from a woman so full of life, honesty, dignity and love of country that her contributions are yet to be accurately measured. Every calumny uttered by Hillary about "vast right wing conspiracies" rings shrill or hollow when the reader learns of her perfidy during the couple's final days at the White House. What is especially frightening is that the people of my former home state New York, were SO UNBELIEVABLY STUPID as to buy into her "I am a victim" act that they elected her the junior Senator from the state, thereby giving her a public platform to continue to spin lies, twist the truth and spew venom at people who disagree with her. Thousands of people died on 9/11; one of the real tragedies is that Barbara Olsen was one of them. While her husband will grieve for her for years, the rest of us have lost a true friend and defender of freedom. That loss will leave a large hole to fill. Had she lived, I am sure that Mrs. Olsen would have continued to investigate and expose the nefarious behavior of NY's junior Senator. We can only thank the God that Hillary secretly reviles that there was a Barbara Olsen who had the courage to stand up in the face of tyranny and to expose that tyranny and corruption for what it really was - SLEAZE. My heart goes out to Ted Olsen and the rest of his family as well as to Barbara Olsen's. All Americans who love liberty will miss her. I can't say the same for Bill and Hillary. Paul Connors
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Summary: Ironic, don't you think ??
Review: The very same disgraceful administration she lays out all the facts to us about, in a way are very responsible for her untimely death. Had Sept.11 never occured, this wonderful peice of investigatory work would have never had as many poeple read it. God works in mysterious ways and I beleive this is a wake up call to everyone who has the morals, but have just stood on the sidelines to take this country back from all who have made deals with the dark side.
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Summary: One last slap in the face
Review: This book should make any American angry. Olsen succintly documents the final days in Clinton's presidency; days that are all too fitting a crown to the eight years he and Hillary reigned. (And make no mistake about it, "reign" they did...) Yes, this book is one-sided. Yes, the author is probably biased. But sadly, all of what she describes has been documented, and can be confirmed. Olsen touches on several events in the Clinton's last days (and lightly on a few events before that), but the largest portion of the book is spent on the fiasco over the last-minute pardons of drug-dealers, tax cheats, frauds, and fugitives that the Clintons passed out, sold, and traded for votes. (I'll bet you can tell that I'm no fan of the Clintons, huh!) Most if not all of what Olsen talks about was in the media in early 2000, but the events deserve an extra spotlight, which Mrs. Olsen so adequately supplies. Regardless of one's political leanings, I highly recommend this book. It shows the debauchery that we can succomb to when "It's the Economy, Stupid!" and character no longer counts. One last thing: Call me a prude, but the book does contain some PG-13 language. While its use is restricted to direct quotes of the characters (primarily the Clintons), there are ways to avoid it.
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