Meredith Oakley was a prophet of things to come...along with Paul Greenberg, both of the Ark Dem Gazette. Oakley's book, ON THE MAKE (The Rise of Bill Clinton)1994, really nailed the sorry bastard, unfortunately the mainstream media wasn't interested in Clinton's sorry past.
You'll never convince me Elizabeth Drew didn't sorta steal Oakley's title.
ON THE MAKE by Oakley described Clinton's Arkansas sleaze, Elizabeth Drew wrote her book about Clinton's first year as president. She named her book ON THE EDGE.
Never EVER Forget!!
FReegards...MUD
"Does he have a vision or agenda that he pursues, does he have direction in which he is leading the country? I have never been able to detect any particular principal that Bill Clinton would not sacrifice in order to advance his political career."
"The question of his stand on the Gulf War came up .... he mentioned almost casually he had supported the use of force in that war. And that really threw me. Because I remembered that he had not. ... I remember feeling shaken, ... I sped down the 43 miles to the paper, looked up the clips, and of course he had not supported the war. He had issued a classic waffle that would allow him later to take whatever side looked popular whether we had won or lost that conflict. It was a very convoluted statement ... it had so many escape clauses he would have had a hard time not coming out on top no matter how the war came out. We have a term for those escape clauses in Arkansas. Those are called "Clinton Clauses." Seldom, if ever, will you catch Bill Clinton in anything so direct as a lie. There is always a premeditated quality to many of his statements that give him an out in case he decided to abandon a promise or betray an assertion. "
"So that Bill Clinton is very much a man of the '90's. Or maybe the '90's is very much a reflection of Bill Clinton. I'm not sure which. But I think we do live in a Clintonized culture. Just turn on your television set, or read your newspaper or try to find out what the latest spin is, and you can see what counts is the right sentimental expression, the right style rather than anything below the surface, rather than any kind of profound quality. Rather than any sense of pain or sacrifice that awaits us."