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Summary: Better Than Her Most Recent Book - - But Still Off
Review: I rate books as I see them, but hopefully not based on bias. In any case I am a conservative so I should like Coulter. This is a better and more entertaining read than her current book "Treason" which I think is a bit over the top. Maybe it is because the Clintons are somewhat still fresh in our minds. I am conservative so theoretically I should be her prime target audience but having said that, the problem with Coulter is that she is right 75% of the time and the rest of the time she is a bit loony - doing a hatchet job. The bad 25% detracts from the other 75% - the good stuff. So I have mixed feelings about this book. Sure it is not too hard to find things bad about Bill Clinton - like Mark Rich the fugitive on the run from the Manhattan DA's office and whose ex wife was helping the Clintons financially with the Clinton Library - and he got a Presidential pardon the day before Clinton left office. That is easy to connect the dots. But the loony parts do not wash and spoil the book. Sorry my humble opinion. Just 3 stars. Jack in Toronto
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Summary: Partisan but powerful
Review: The author, and the publisher, are aggressively conservative, and if you've seen Coulter on the talk show circuit recently (how could you not?) you have no doubt where she stands on the Clinton administration (firmly against). What we get here is more of the same. A lot more. Coulter's forceful argument for impeachment is unlikely to leave any reader sitting on the fence. It will harden those convinced he has to go, and even his most ardent supporters would be hard-pressed to ingest this 300+ page indictment and continue to insist that Clinton's detractors have "nothing" on him. The first third of the book covers the Lewinski affair; the remainder--Whitewater, Filegate, the travel office firings, IRS audits, campaign finance issues, *ad nauseum*--take up the remaining 200 pages, with varying degrees of persuasiveness. But even the weakest arguments, frequently compared directly to the articles of impeachment drafted against Richard Nixon, nonetheless demand thoughtful consideration. Her book isn't the last word, but the issues it raises belong in the debate. The rhetoric here is at times irritatingly repetitive and unrepentantly abrasive, and nobody is likely to agree with everything she says. But love her or hate her, Coulter has done her homework, her notes are copious, and her conslusions damning. It's a quick read, ably written and extensively documented. It's important to consider both sides of an issue as wrenching as impeachment, and this book asks questions that the U.S. Congress may be asked to consider in the days and months ahead. Even so, this book is to the presidency what "Saving Private Ryan" is to war--at times graphic, brutal and hard to stomach. I came away from this book feeling more than a little queasy. It's not a pretty read. But as the scandalous headlines show no sign of abating and the sound-bite debate on the talking head shows produces more indigestion than understanding, this book demands not only awareness, but consideration. Read it, read the arguments of Clinton's supporters, then make up your own mind.
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Summary: Morality from the Right?
Review: Ann Coulter gives reasons just why the issues of character and the private lives of presidents should remain a high standard in our choices for leaders. It's interesting to note that she does not hold the Republicans to the same moral standard. In my book, lying that sends thousands to their death and costs the public billions of dollars is far worse than lying to save your marriage. As for character before office... a Rhoads scholar versus a drunkard, a theif and a illegal drug user. Try reading Worse Than Watergate by John Dean.
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Summary: Excellent Constitutional analysis of Impeachment.
Review: Ann Coulter gives compelling constitutional reasons just why the issues of character and the private lives of presidents should remain a high standard in our choices for leaders. Her ability to explain complex constitutional arguments in a simple manner makes the principles outlined in the Constitution and the Federalist Papers easier to understand and apply to our current political situation. She handles a very political situation in an apolitical review of facts. In fact, her analysis is convincing that our governmental leaders have a constitutional duty to insure that the voting electorate not be allowed to abuse our system of government by electing any person who does not have the character befit for the office of our President and other high leaders. I think only that she could have reviewed and compared other systems and the consequences and results of persons of questionable character maintaining political and legal control over other person's lives. Hopefully, Ms. Coulter will continue this book in a second volumn as time progresses. Not a fast read, but well deserving of every American's time.
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Summary: THERE IS MORE TO THE CLINTONS THAN BREAKING THE LAW
Review: In light of the fact that Bill Clinton wants to be Secretary-General of a more powerful U.N. while Hillary Clinton is in an "internationalized" White House, one is struck by the uncomfortable notion that the battle of Good vs. Evil is not relegated strictly to the War on Terrorism. There may be a reason why a real Christian like George Bush is President. Are we facing a confrontation between supernatural forces, an Apocalypse? If so, are the Clintons part of it or are conservative Christians just ranting about nothing? Do we really want to set us ourselves up for the worst? America - the world - beware of the Clintons. Do not give them power. STEVEN TRAVERS
Author of "Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman"
STWRITES@aol.com
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Summary: More shrill clap-trap from everybody's favorite harpy
Review: what a waste of wood. even scarier is some of the other feedback on this site. how can people believe this swill? my favorite posts: the ones in which the reader is just bowled over by coulter's acumen at marshalling the facts. but I guess there's never been a shortage of pin-headed chumps willing to hang their blind rage on the thinnest of manufactured evidence. coulter's descended from a venerable line of charlatans who've argued everything from the relationship b/t the smallness of negro brain pans and their intelligence, to the holocaust as the work of fevered jewish hysterics. think of coulter's oeuvre as political junk science.
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Summary: Not About Sex
Review: While many claim that Clinton was persecuted by a right wing conspiracy invading his private life, think again. The connection of Whitewater, travelgate, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and Monicagate provide more than enough evidence to have impeached and convicted Bill Clinton. If Richard Nixon is forced to resign over obstructing an investigation, then President Clinton should have resigned as well. The saddest point of the comparison is that Nixon was President when the "imperial presidency" was the status quo. Every President since FDR abused the IRS, created enemies lists, and wiretapped their political opponents. While Nixon was the one crucified for the imperial presidency, the massive legislation that followed Watergate was supposed to purify politics. Clinton, a benefactor of Watergate, decided to abuse his power even after the imperial presidency. This small fact makes Clinton's actions even more disturbing and Bob Woodward has noted it in his book "Shadow." Even Clinton's staunchest defenders, if they're reasonable, will have to admit the Clinton did abuse his power, obstruct justice, and committed perjury more than once. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming.
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Summary: The High Crimes of William Jefferson Clinton
Review: In her first book of political commentary, Ann Coulter lays out the case for what constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors" - the standard given by the Constitution for impeachment of a sitting president. In the opening chapter of her book, Coulter points out that high crimes and misdemeanors are often misunderstood and confused with similar acts in the realm of the criminal justice system. But the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" finds its origin in English common law and placed in the Constitution by the framers so as to insure that the moral underpinnings of the office itself would remain secure. Because without moral men in positions of power, the founders believed a constitutional republic would not last. Following her introduction to the subject of impeachment and the standard that must be met to impeach a president, Coulter delves into the Clinton presidency itself. Several chapters are devoted to the president's lies to the American public, his lies under oath, the Monica Lewinsky story, Ken Starr, and a number of other smarmy conversational debates unleashed on the American public by President Clinton's reprehensible behavior. The middle chapters of the book outline the innumerable improprieties and abuses by the White House in the scandal known as "Travelgate", wherein an entire department of civil servants was fired without cause, investigated by the FBI, in some cases audited by the IRS, and in general harassed by the Clinton White House. Coutler also examines the case of 900 FBI files on individuals from the Reagan and Bush administrations ending up in the hands of Clinton staffers as a result of a "bureaucratic snafu" which was no snafu at all... Next, Coulter mentions the seemingly endless and suspiciously coincidental number of Clinton enemies who happened to be audited by the IRS. Coulter closes out her book with a full-length explanation of Watergate and the events surrounding the president in that case as well as Vince Foster's suicide, Webster Hubbell's relationship with the Clintons, the White House coffees, etc. It's utterly amazing, given the infinite examples of corruption, that Coulter could cover so many diverse topics comprehensively in one book. But she does. For those who have read David Limbaugh's "Absolute Power" and found it informative, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a highly-detailed complimentary text worth reading. For those who simply want to learn what the media should've explained to them but didn't, Ann Coulter's first book will fill in all the holes... Britt Gillette
Author of "The Dittohead Guide To Adult Beverages"
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Summary: An Unsubstantiated Rant! That's All.
Review: Having read this book and then John Dean's book "Worse Than Watergate", Ann Coulter's book is simply laughable by comparison. Again I ask, where is the outrage that was so evident during Clinton's presidency for the current administration? As with the two other books I have read by Ann Coulter, this book is just an hysterical rant. Witch hunt? I think so.
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Summary: Don't read this book if you really want to learn something!
Review: Ms Coulter may be a pretty blond (which she does her best to flount at her TV appearances) but her tongue and opinions are quite poisonous. I guess some people just hate President Clinton and there is probably nothing he could have done to change their opinions. I just don't see the high crimes committed by Clinton. Judging by our more recent experiences with another president (Mr. Bush), Clinton wasn't that bad. Leaving aside pre-determined attitudes, Ms Coulter really doesn't add much to our learning experience. If you want Clinton bashing (hating is a better word) you may enjoy the book but if you really want to learn something meaningful about Clinton presidency you won't get much out of this book. Ms Coulter plays the role of sensational story-teller relatively well.
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