Posted on 06/19/2004 11:43:23 AM PDT by AM2000
"The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull ? the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history. "
Does ANYBODY really believe that Dan Rather actually read this tome?
Prediction: This will be the largest (and heaviest) bestseller that NOBODY ever reads.
The Clinton Presidency will be seen as a pimple on the but of history.
The fact that this "memoir" is so long is an sad and pathetic attempt to equate "hysterical" length to historical greatness.
Enjoy your millions, Bill, cause you can buy NOTORIETY but you sure can't buy GREATNESS.
He must like em big. Maybe that's why he liked Monica.
Okay, so he likes zaftig women. Besides, its time to move on... ;-)
Not necessarily -- didn't Hillary prattle on for pages about nonsense nobody cares about? And she had at least three ghostwriters!
"I hope Michiko is polishing up her resume...."
That was exactly my thought after just a few lines in.
"Gennifer Flowers has written that Bill liked to cavort in her pink nighties...."
Is that true, Rogue? I'm not questioning your veracity, but it just seems so incredible. I never heard that. Holy cow.
Michiko Kakutani...Pulitzer Prize winner 1998
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/criticism/bio/
It's called being a phony, a hypocrite, a fake, a fraud, a liar. It's called carrying a Bible to church for the cameras and hurrying back to the White House to get a B.J. the same morning.
To #12 I agree. Anyone who was around in the early days of the Clintons' life in Arkansas, has seen the two of them lie and cheat their way right up to the present day. The infamous 60 Minute episode cooked up and edited by Don Hewitt was really painful to watch, and so many were completely gullible and believed it.
Let us hope that this current flurry over a stupid book will soon pass. Kaycee
I know Bubba was getting into Gennifer's pants for a good long while...but as big a fat-ass as Bubba was and is, I think that was in the figurative sense rather than the literal one.
Clinton ruled like a dictator - through executive orders. His crap would never fly in Congress so he circumvented the political process by rewarding his Marxist friends with power by a stroke of a pen. Clinton is the most disgusting person ever to occupy the oval house. No, he didn't occupy the office, he infested it and delivered a Marxist plague on my country.
His war on rural America devasted local economies. He joined forces with the eco-fascist movement and stole more than 1 million acres to create de facto government nature preserves. And not one property owner received a penny.
Clinton was a fascist thief who robbed property owners. I could've wrote a book about Clinton, but it would have contained only one word - "Scum!"
FRom Merriam Webster Online Dictionary
prattle ..
to utter or make meaningless sounds suggestive of the chatter of children
to say in an unaffected or childish manner
The mind numbing inaneness of the book can only be imagined if this is the NY Time's review.
Pass this book out to prisoners that we want to torture.
I don't believe ANYTHING I read in the NYT...think I better buy this one !
"...Bill liked to cavort in her pink nighties..."
The image that has always disgusted me MOST...that of Slick, 2000 Demo convention, strutting through hallways to something similar to "Saturday Night Fever"...has just been replaced with him in [bleeeech!] PINK NIGHTIES!!!
Thanks ever so much...
Not sure what they are up to, but they are up to something, maybe trying to lower expectations is the only reason.
I assume from your post that you won't be purchasing a copy of Slick's book.
the NYT slams the toon
"Gennifer Flowers has written that Bill liked to cavort in her pink nighties...."
"Is that true, Rogue? I'm not questioning your veracity, but it just seems so incredible. I never heard that. Holy cow."
My bad. It was not Gennifer, but, Sally Perdue. And the nightie was black, not pink.
And he was snorting cocaine.
Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard, " Women of the Clinton Scandals " :
"Besides, as of late, no one's seen much of Sally Perdue (the former Miss Arkansas who was threatened after disclosing the ugly particulars of her affair with Clinton—such as his "wearing my black nightgown, playing the sax badly")
The American Enterprise on line , "This is Fun ," Ralph Reiland :
" Or worse. Sally Perdue, a former Miss Arkansas, contends a Democratic operative in Illinois warned that her "pretty little legs" might be broken if she continued to speak publicly about Clinton’s dancing around her apartment in one of her nightgowns, playing his saxophone and snorting cocaine. "
Telegraph, Jan 23, 1994," The Threats That Followed My Fling With Bill Clinton, " Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
"When I see him now, President of the United States, meeting world leaders,
can't believe it . . . I still have this picture of him wearing my black nightgown, playing the sax badly;"
Clinton's Book - a mediocre finale to a rather mediocre life of a mediocre man who by some accident of history wound up in the White House. Eight years of imbecilic,disastrous foreign policy, carried out by the most moronic cabinet in 100 years; failure after failure in the foreign policy arena, absolutely no shining successes in domestic policy; loses both houses of Congress to the Repubos in '94 because of utter ineptness; impeached for lying under oath; disgraced for a tawdry near affair with an intern (is a BJ a real "affair"? SOB couldn't even do that right!);saved from a possible charge of treason by Matt Drudge publishing the Lewinsky scandal a week too early. The bastard squandered 8 years in the White House and in the end, hopefully, has scarred the RAT party for the next 20 years.
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