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Summary: Anecdotal-Yes, Daming-hell yes!
Review: I just put this book down. It's a quick read taking less that two hours to finish.The anger starts in the forward by Al Santoli and builds from there. The actual writings of "Buzz Patterson" start out with his motivation for writing the book and his multiple statements that he is not attacking Clinton but trying to get us to see the real 'man' behind the stage managed persona. He then goes into the attack on Iraq that wasn't after he and Sandy Berger couldn't get Clinton away from viewing a golf game. People belittle this anecdote but I think it is a telling part of the real Clinton. His 'star power' and his 'needs' come first to the Clinton clan and the needs of the USA and the Constitution he swore to uphold only matter if they can directly affect him, his cronies or Hillary. This thread of ruthless personal ambition and his willingness to put his and only his needs first second and third to the countries' run throughout the book as they did through Clinton's presidency. I don't want to go into a chapter by chapter review but it is compelling reading that you will be driven to finish in one sitting. Naturally the author goes into his military background and how he really didn't want the job. It seems that since he didn't want it is why he got it. As a military man, it is obvious that one of the reasons he wrote the book is to expose the actual loathing that the Clinton White House had for the military, from treating them as their personal valets to ignoring them as a King might a peasant or a person would squash an insect. His and Hillary's loathing is so disgusting and patently real that it's clear Patterson hadn't any choice in writing this book if for no other reason than to assuage his conscience for taking what appeared to him in the end a rather distasteful position. Nevertheless, Clinton's loathing of the military didn't stop him from deploying them around the world in foolish efforts to appear to the editors of the New York Times and CNN and that he actually felt the rest of the world's pain. Finally, his gays in the military trial balloon which came crashing down is only one of several examples of him and Hillary using the military in some giant social engineering experiment where he could force his Socialistic views upon a military he clearly loathed. Another point is to counter act the continuing re-writing of history such as his staff claiming that they sternly warned the Bush White House about the danger of Bin Laden, which if it were true begs the question, "why didn't they get him when he was handed to him on a platter not once but several times?" It's clear that his staff's revisionist history's only purpose is to give Clinton an unearned legacy and to reduce his culpability for 9/11. There is a nice timeline that explains the military deployments and other 'highlights' of his two terms in office. One factual error though, is where he places the impeachment at the end of 1999 when it happened in December 1998. Clearly this is a misprint that slipped through the editors but must be pointed out anyway. He also includes an attributed excerpt from Casper Weinberger that is next on my book buying list and it explicitly puts the lie to the supposed fact that George W. Bush inherited a strong military from Clinton and that is why he was able to defeat Afghanistan and though unmentioned, due to the publishing date, the sound defeat of Saddam. One is left with the impression that the reason GWB was able to do EASILY what Clinton was unable to do was that GWB was driven by conscience and not polls and did what was right and not expedient. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a good read. We already know about Clinton's multiple leadership and personal failures but this book puts them in a personal perspective without the vindictiveness you might find in something by Pitt, Begala or Carville.
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Summary: The ONE Star Reviews ARE BOGUS!!!!
Review: This is a great book. When I referenced the reviews they were mostly one star and five star. Who are you supposed to believe? I took a chance and bought the book. After reading it, I felt it was a fair and unbiased account by someone who was there. If anything, it looked like the author made a deliberate attempt to keep his writting as objective as possible. I still can't understand the one stars unless it is a "massive left wing conspiracy". The President of the United States is many things...including Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. The consistent message in the book is the overwhelming importance of this presidential role. The author is telling us, please, please wake up America...select a person worthy of leading our brave men and women.
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Summary: one star reviewers not being honest
Review: Anyone who gives this book a one-star, like myself, is obviously a biased apologist for the former president. Now the 5 star reviewers, they're're an honest bunch you see. They have given deep thought to the enigma which is Clinton, and have objectively contemplated all the things he did in office, and have logically deduced that he was an a-1 slimebag. Yes, they may be a conservative bunch who regularly post 5-star reviews for all our predictable favorites like Bill O'Rielly, Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Bill Bennet, Cristopher Hitchins, Michael Savage, Barbara Olson, George Will, Dinesh D'Souza, and anyone else who has ever written truthfully about what a slimebag Clinton was, but they are extremely open-minded and have come to their positions through great intellectual self-debate and a thorough study of all the facts. And they may regularly lambaste the one-star reviewers of our favorites, and then go to the Micheal Moore reviews and post their own one-star reviews. Yes, these infinite anti-Clinton writers basically repeat the same themes and present the same arguments for why he was a slimebag, but you see, it is all very well researched and thoughtfully presented and it affirms what the Clinton-haters have come to realize through their endless quest for the truth - that Clinton was, oh how do you say?.. an A1-slimebag.And hey, this guy's a military man, so who can argue anything a great military man has to say? So there you go, you dishonest one-star reviewers.
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Summary: this is written by a military man, so it must be true
Review: Senior Airman Corky "Buzz" Patterson does a fine job revealing all the details of how Clinton endangered the country with his crazy endangerment activities. While doing so, he also fills us in on Clinton's deranged moral behavior, which he witnessed first hand. In light of the war in Iraq and the great sacrifices our brave soldiers are making over there, we must believe everything this military man has to say,... because I keep getting that e-mail that tells me that "..it is the soldier who gives us freedom of speech, not the reporter, and it is the soldier who gives us good movies about soldiers, not spielberg, and it is the soldier who tells us about how depraved and dangerous our former president was, not Anne Coulter..". So buy this book, because "Buzz" Patterson was a soldier.
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Summary: Eye opener
Review: This has been an eye opener for me. What a shocking eyewitness! Had Clinton been more focus on the national security, we might still have the two towers standing and four of my co-workers still alive. I do partly blame myself for voting for Clinton on his first term but thankfully not for the second term. I lost faith in him by then. Excellent book and a must read!
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Summary: On Target
Review: I served as an Infantry officer in the US Army during the first half of the Clinton administration. LTC Patterson has very accurately described the sentiments of most officers I knew and served with during that time. Because officers swear to follow the lawful orders of the commander in chief, they were not inclined to speak openly about how the Clinton administration's nonchalant approach to the military and national security weakened the nation. One of the main reasons is that Clinton lacked the integrity or ability to provide a leadership example worthy of following. He also had no concern for the plight of the soldiers. This book provides an excellent overview of the poor regard for national security that Clinton and his cronies brought to the White House, which let down those they swore to defend. LTC Patterson very succinctly captures the climate of the time and clarifies the impact that poor leadership and self-centered decision making can have on our country's security.
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Summary: great career move
Review: I don't blame the author for writing this book. He knew a book bashing Clinton would STILL stir the hormones of conservatives and put a good deal of money in his pocket. Patterson plays on the [] fact that many conservatives cannot get over thier hatred of Bill Clinton and that he was a popular president. It would be laughable if it was not so sad. NEWS FLASH: Clinton has been gone for over two years--get over it, the same way you tell Democrats to get over the 2000 election...
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Summary: One word: Mendacity
Review: The downright demagoguery of POTUS Clinton comes to light in this enlightening confession of faith. Buzz Patterson tells of his shocking first-hand accounts of his inept Commander in Chief as his ubiquitous football carrier. From Clinton's choice of watching a golf tournament while ignoring Sandy Berger's request to bomb Iraq to his refusal to nab Osama bin Laden, we learn first-hand of the sheer ineptitude of our 42nd President. From declassifying nuclear secrets to selling them to China, Clinton never ceased to amaze as to the unfathomable depths of sedition to which he ignominiously plunged. I highly enjoyed Barbara Olson's book. This book is similar, but with the unique perspective of one who was Clinton's shadow at all times(I almost feel sorry for him). If Clinton gutted the military any more than he did, we might as well not even have one. Incompetence personified.
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Summary: No axe to grind
Review: The title is a quote from the book's author, who wrote a book so insulting to its reader that I now have an axe to grind. I sat down to read this book hoping to find illuminating observations of the Clinton years, but instead found a book that was written for the same people that still consider Clinton a rapist. People, he is not, I'm sorry. As an independent, I have a pretty open mind about Clinton or Bush or Reagan? But to read this would be like reading a book about Reagan from Ralph Nader. This book is insulting in its attempt to potray that it is somewhat objective. The open-ended slurs against Clinton and sketchy facts self-evidently display the immense bias of this book. Read something from a real writer about Clinton, before considering this bottom feeding book.
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Summary: Good info from someone who was there.
Review: Let me begin with a quote from another reviewer. "This book is a joke, please do not buy it and allow this huckster to achieve his goal. This book was written for no other reason than to make money on childish and bitter hearsay." Clearly an uneducated, bias review from someone who doesn't know what the "nuclear football" is or the responsabillities of those that carry it. This book is an absolute delight. What a better source of information that from one who, for most of his stay in this position, was never farther than a few yards from the President of the United States. I suppose most of those on the left would be scared off by the title; but if I were trying to strengthen my party's support, knowing my weakest links and most infested wounds would be helpful. Thumbs up to Mr. Patterson. This book took courage to write.
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