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Summary: Well Written Words of Truth
Review: "The Final Days" by Barbara Olson was a much needed work. It was thoroughly well researched and documented and it will make your blood boil. Read about how Clinton abused his pardon and execuctive order priviledges. Check into Hillary's 2000 Senate Campaign dealings. Barbara Olson will be much missed, may she rest with the angels. She is dismissed as a right wing ideologue, but let's step back from that for a moment. Barbara Olson uses well-documented resources and backs up her assertions with facts. It has become too easy for the left to just say "oh so-and-so is a right-wing chest-thumper" and not have to adress their logic, nor make any attempt to refute their facts. Looking at it in this manner, one cannot refute Mrs. Olson's well-documented logic. Everybody who is concerned about the fate of this country should read "The Final Days."
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Summary: Co-presidency, co-conspirators, co-criminals fits perfectly.
Review: The loss of Barbara Olson is a national tragedy, which will undoubtedly create a hole in the fabric of fair and balanced political debate. The scales of journalistic, commentary and literary debate that hold the left and right in balance before the American people has been offset by her loss. Only the work of someone like Mrs. Olson and the honesty and openness of many of her associates from both sides of the isle will fill the void. Bernard Goldberg, David Shippers, Dick Morris, George Stephanopoulos and yes Barbara Olson are just the tip of the iceberg. Larry King was exactly right "Barbara was a special lady. We will miss her." It is not necessary for most Americans to read the plethora of books from conservatives and liberals alike who were both outside and inside the Clinton administration to "get the picture" that this was the most corrupt, power crazed and unethical group of individuals to ever inhabit "The Peoples House." I include in that group any and all who allowed themselves to look like total fools by coming out and denying in front of the cameras what they knew was the truth. That the boss was a dirty old man, a liar and corrupt to his very bones. Sure every single administration in existence has had errors or mistakes and a skeleton or two in the closet that they want to remain buried. But Bill and Hillary Clinton and their administrative enablers created armies of skeletons and piles of bones and half rotting corpses of political, ethical, financial and failed character errors that surpass all others. Their misuse of power, office, governmental agencies, privilege, influence and the "peoples trust" is beyond equal and should remain a permanent example of how power and greed and lust can corrupt even the most, well intentioned. But when it comes to their rein of terror upon the American People no one in America's past, present or future will be so blatantly oblivious for the wrong they have done and the harm they have caused to this great country of ours. Barbara has done a masterful job of adding to the chorus of voices and material that has exposed this blight upon the reputation of American Government. The utter failure of the Clinton's and their appointees to uphold the "rule of law" and the "honor of the office" is only equaled in treachery and ridiculousness by seeing the Senate of the United States of America. Those whom the founding fathers believed would be the true intellectual, rational and patriotic conscience of the country through thick and thin. Turn away from their sacred oaths, their duty and their most fundamental obligations to the Constitution and the founding principles of this Republic, to support, protect and defend their traitorous boss. It was simply a traitorous act to leave this criminal and his first-lady-accomplice in office. And they will never live it down as long as they live. Perhaps even after. Benedict Arnold had nothing on that completely partisan and unprofessional Democrat Senate Vote. Dick Morris summed it up on page 206 when he said, "the reflections...of a nations longtime heedlessness, surrender, and in many cases complicity, [towards the Clinton corruption], will be ugly. Refusing to face the Clinton [true legacy] is a national transgression from which there is, and should be, no pardon." In other words as Bill and Hillary Clinton virtually destroyed the reputation, honor and dignity of the office to which they were elected while dragging the American people, half of whom were willing disgraceful participants, into the gutter of degeneracy, disgrace, lies, abuses of power and criminal activity. We became almost as disgustingly passive and surrendering to them, as the German people were to Adolph Hitler. God forgive us all for that. The only thing we can be thankful for is that they did not have aspirations of being King and Queen of the whole world just the United States of America. If we...left, right and center, do not look at this corrupt regime for what it really was, Dick Morris' words would be completely appropriate. We will never find redemption. This book is as important to the abuse of the pardon power by Bill Clinton, as David Shippers book is to the failure of the United States Senate to do it's duty, or Bill Oreilly's is to a failed media debate, and Bernard Goldberg's is to exposing the unquestioned bais in the major TV News outlets, or Willima Bennet's books are to exposing the failed character and culture of the political left. Thank you Barbara for adding just one more piece to the puzzle that was American worst political failure and long running nightmare yet.
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Summary: Entertaining but unconvincing
Review: It is of course tragic that Barbara Olsen perished on 9/11, but nevertheless I must say that while I looked forward to this book because I want to believe the worst about Bill and Hillary, and while it was entertaining for putting them in a bad light, I didn't really find it convincing from a research/evidentiary point of view. For one, the author's bias was all too evident; for another, many of the points seemed to be just rehashed public domain material or speculation. Put another way, sure the Clinton's probably did some bad stuff in their final days, but this book hardly lives up to its promise to show them as serious abusers of power.
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Summary: Excellent factual account of a psuedo dynasty!
Review: I have read this book 2 x's and for some critics to berate its content is an attempt to stifle the "truth". Ms. Olson has an uncanny ability to blend fact and prose and make this book as interesting as a novel--unfortunately for America, this is not fiction. Her accounts of the crimes the Clintons'perpetrated are legion. It's unfortunate that despite these factual accounts, there still are Clinton enablers and sympathizers who overlook the myriad violations of laws commited by the Clintons and their cronies. This book is must reading for all who want to see what travesties some elected officials are capable of perpetrating. Hopefully, this book will lead to widespread awareness of the corrupt government we tolerated for too many years.
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Summary: The Clinton White House
Review: I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when reading about the abuse by King and Queen Clinton based on how they acted for 8 years, but my jaw just dropped over and over again with every page, and every chapter. Clinton lovers beware. You'll have a hard time turning a blind eye after reading this.
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Summary: The Final Days
Review: This book was a juicy read. It grabbed my attention right from the start. The author was prepared all right, prepared to blow the doors wide open on all the disgusting, dirty little secrets covered up by POTUS AND LOTUS. There is Hillary's remarkable interest in Communism and leftist ties not to mention all the little details about how the bribery for the Marc Rich pardon came about. Also included are the many pardons of some of the most criminal elements society has to offer not to mention their friends and family members. And last but not least is their midnight runs and the "looting of the nations "White House". There for all the world to see is their greedy, shameful and disgusting rise to the top. It makes you want to be careful, very careful who you vote for.
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Summary: Olson: Hero; Hillary: Useless
Review: Okay, I have a bias and this book feeds that distrust of the Clintons with fact and a little spin. Only in few places did Barbara Olson manage a few shots--which were funny. But, clearly even the most ardent Clintonite supporter would have trouble disputing Olson's facts presented in her final book. These people, the Clintons were, are [low class] hey, I grew up as [low class] and can see their ethos of entitlement in my neighbors while growing up. I rated it a 3 only because of its breverty and a storyline (timeline) that jumps around a bit. In no way does this dimmish what Olson presents. I had trouble putting it down long enough to stop yelling at the characters in this book.
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Summary: Simply Elegant
Review: Elegantly worded, elegantly ridden. It should put to rest the pitiful whining of any remaining Clinton defenders who are still deluded enough to think he was a good president. For their infantile minds nothing can be done by Clinton to diminish his stature and no criticisms can be levied against Clinton that are not "right-wing partisan hack jobs". This book is succintly written with very little fluff. It does not try to come across as a deeply researched book but rather a well-organized gathering of the damning evidence against our previous president. It discusses the clemencies, the pardons, and the executive orders that had no justification for taking place. Who would have thought that an analysis of just the final days of a president would be enough to cement his standing in the bottom tier of our national leaders. Barbara Olson lets the facts speak for themselves with a passion and thoroughness that is both a joy and a sadness to read. She will be missed -- Clinton won't.
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Summary: Urban Legend Heaven
Review: Like Olson's previous book, Hell To Pay, The Final Days is a slapdash cut-and-paste hatchet job in which every conceivable allegation is made against the Clintons, even discredited urban legends (more on that later). The main complaint I have with The Final Days is that there is scant historical context and not much of a base point to which to compare the Clinton White House. This is hardly an accident. For instance, few would disagree with Olson that President Clinton made some ill-advised decisions regarding last-minute pardons. Unfortunately, many in the American right have gone as far as to accuse President Clinton of emboldening the 9/11 hijackers because of his pardons of some Puerto Rican nationalists (who had served sentences longer than current federal sentencing guidelines and were not convicted of killing or injuring anyone). However, President George H.W. Bush pardoned a Cuban terrorist whom U.S. intelligence and law enforcement believe was responsible for the downing of a civilian airliner (killing 76 people) and whom the FBI indicated had "repeatedly expressed and demonstrated a willingness to cause indiscriminate injury and death." If any President's pardons indicated softness on Bin Ladenesque terrorism, it was President Clinton's predecessor.
The torrent of venom in this book is so unrelenting that Olson flailed the Clintons and their associates for petty, often imaginary shortcomings. For instance, Olson wrote: "Contrary to the Lincolnesque myths created by their Hollywood friends, neither Hillary Rodham nor Bill Clinton rose from log cabins or poor circumstances to become America's most luminous couple. Both came from solidly middle-class families of sufficient means to enable them to attend privileged-and expensive-private educational institutions such as Wellesley, Georgetown, and Yale." The idea that Bill Clinton could have attended Georgetown or Yale without financial aid or scholarships is silly. Similarly, the supposed attempt by unnamed Hollywood friends to depict Hillary's upbringing as proletarian was nothing more than a fiction fueled by Olson's jaundiced projections.
Moreover, Olson was intent on portraying every accusation against the Clintons as established fact, even to the point of repeating urban legends. Olson wrote: "Some even noticed that when Clinton was President, Marine guards failed to execute a right face to stand facing his back as he walked away. The Marines somehow relearned this maneuver on January 20, 2001, when the new Commander-in-Chief, President George W. Bush, took office." This petty smear of President Clinton, debunked by several urban legends web sites, is especially pernicious because it besmirched the reputation of the guards, who have no dog in the fight. No big surprise: Olson referred to President Clinton's mother as "a barfly who gets used by men."
I tried to give The Final Days zero stars, but Amazon doesn't give that option. Although The Final Days is a run-of-the-mill Regnery screed, I suppose it deserves one star for at least not repeating the smear fed to the press by the Bush White House that members of the Clinton White House trashed the White House, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage. I guess that should count for something.
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Summary: A hatchet job
Review: This book is nothing more than a poorly researched vendetta against Bill and Hillary Clinton. I would rather not speak ill of Ms. Olson, who died very tragically on Sept. 11, but the fact is that much of this book puts words and thoughts in the Clintons' minds that are pure speculation.
There is a legitimate case to be made against Bill and Hillary Clinton, but if you are interested in a fact-based and fair-minded effort, then you've come to the wrong place. If you want a piece of work that reinforces your own negative impression of the Clintons without challenging any of your assumptions, then this book is for you.
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