Posted on 12/17/2009 11:56:42 AM PST by OldDeckHand
In the years since their bitter battle, both former President Bill Clinton and independent counsel Ken Starr have predicted they’d be vindicated in the history books.
Now the first definitive history of the Clinton scandal is about to arrive – and neither man can be completely happy about his portrayal in its pages.
“The Death of American Virtue,” due out in February, asserts that Clinton had yet another extramarital affair, with Susan McDougal of Whitewater fame. Also in the book, Monica Lewinsky tells author Ken Gormley that she believes the president lied under oath when he described their encounters.
At the same time, Gormley offers a harsh portrait of Starr as a man out of his depth and who lost all sense of proportion. His interviews offer new ammunition to critics who contend the Lewinsky investigation was marred at its outset by improper questioning of Lewinsky in January 1998 by Starr’s lieutenants, who continued to grill her even after she asked for a lawyer.
Two presidents later, the saga feels like a far-off chapter in the nation’s history but the book makes clear that the principals, including Clinton himself, remain keenly interested in squaring the historical record to their liking.
In three interviews with the author, Clinton makes clear – to no surprise of longtime observers of the 42nd president – how aggrieved his continues to feel over the whole episode, unspooling a stream of choice invective about his other accusers. In Clinton’s telling, the head of the House impeachment team, Henry Hyde, is a “bitter right-winger” and “hypocrite,” and the judge who cited Clinton for civil contempt was merely currying favor with the conservative wing of the GOP.
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Governor for some ridiculous state that ranks dead last in education, but was elected to the presidency because of some spiteful dwarf named Ross Perot.
Never caring about America or righteousness, this scumbag used the office of the presidency solely as a means to bed whores.
Now he's living the high life on a lifetime pension and armed escorts, all courtesy of the US taxpayer.
This guy's the greatest conman since Oral Roberts.
Bill Clinton raped a woman, maybe more and he should be in a jail cell.
Didn’t Clinton admit he lied as part of the plea bargain he made?
LOL!!!!
this caused clinton a ton of trouble, but the real scandal of the clinton years was the apparent co-opting of his administration by China, and the flagrant funding of the 1996 campaign by same (which presumably continues to this day. Mr Hsu just happened to get caught).
Clinton lied? Nooooooo! In other news, sun rises in east; ocean tides rise and fall each day; four seasons comprise a solar year and Barack Hussein Obama embraces socialism.
Well said.
I guess the handbag thing didn’t pan out.
BTW is she married yet or is she a spinster?
Yeah, you "beat" them. That's all your entire 8 sorry years ever was to you, a g*******d game!
Ten years out, and this bitter, narcissistic man-child still can't bring himself to admit HE was the one at fault, HE was the one who broke the law, and HE was the one who demeaned the office he was elected to serve.
And had it not been for the public, drunk on fat 401ks, you would have gotten the punishment you deserve.
I had forgotten how I felt about this and had moved on. But he was a disgrace, and it doesn't deserve to be swept under the rug. Glad this refreshed my memory.
Yawn. Good grief, this is a decade late and a dollar short.
This person wanted Linda Tripp to commit perjury. Why would I care about what she has to say now, as if it was above being a pack of lies.
LMAO...
Spinster.
The devil unlocks it, and to the Sinkmeister's surprise, there's Ken Starr being administered to by none other than Monica herself!
Clinton thinks he|| might not turn out to be such a bad place after all.
"Ok," says Satan, "Monica you can get up. This is Bill's cell now."
The Clinton whitewash continues. Starr brought Lewinski up in order to divert attention from Ron Brown. I don’t have any doubts about it, but no proof either. Starr was able to cover up Whitewater, Vince Foster, the FBI files, sales of technology to China and probably a lot more.
Ron Brown was about to blow up with no way to cover it up and was a hell of a lot more serious that diddling an intern, but once Lewinski came out it was buried.
As if that is a shocker. Remember, it was the Clinton crowd that got her hooked up with scum lawyer Mark Geragos. IMO, Geragos had an affair with her too.
Maybe old George Stephanopolous should come clean and tell the truth. After all, he wants to be taken seriously as a newsman.
I wish he were back in the White House, and its current occupant were not.
Nothing more than a screed against Ken Starr.
Nothing new at all.
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