Posted on 08/20/2010 1:09:46 PM PDT by presidio9
A new book says President Clinton was one of the smartest men to ever occupy the White House but had an immature attitude when it came to sex.
The book quotes NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, who covered the Clinton administration's most inglorious moment when Republicans got Clinton impeached for lying about having sex with Monica Lewinsky, the New York Daily News reported Friday.
Clinton had the "mentality of an 18-year-old" when it came to sex, Totenberg is quoted as saying.
That assessment appears in "A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him" by Michael Takiff.
Totenberg says she believes it was Clinton's inability to face his wife Hillary Clinton that led him to make the fateful lie.
Clinton aides like Paul Begala said they believed the president when he went on television and denied having sex with Lewinsky.
When the truth was revealed, Republicans were frustrated by the lack of public outrage, Takiff writes.
They thought the Clintons were "wizards who had somehow enchanted America out of its moral moorings," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said.
To this day, Republicans say, Clinton's behavior rankles.
"I never could bring myself to believe that in the case of Bill Clinton I was dealing with a serious adult," said former Texas Rep. Dick Armey.
ya I heard he is going blind
YA THINK?!
“A new book says President Clinton was one of the smartest men to ever occupy the White House”
Pffft! He’s not too frickin’ smart! He doesn’t even know how to properly use a cigar.
He is a smart guy who got far because his opponents constantly underestimated him.
Please -- she could not have cared less.
Clinton aides like Paul Begala said they believed the president when he went on television and denied having sex with Lewinsky.
So all of us knew it was a lie yet the people who were closest to him, the ones who worked and worshipped him day in and day out, none of them recognized the same ol' pattern? Please again.
Why was everyone so mum when the impeachment was in progress? All of the sudden, they want to speak up?
For some reason, everyone who felt Billy Boy’s behavior was objectionable, was made to feel like some kind of a criminal. NOW, the very people who were closest to the whole farce, want to get on record.
Nina Totenberg. Wasn’t she th b!tch that covered the Thomas hearings? She’s a total buttwart.
Nina Totenberg — wasn’t that the media crone who said she would gladly perform a Lewinsky on Slick Willie, just to thank him for keeping abortion legal?
Well, since his greatest accomplishments were getting a Republican congress and shutting up the feminists, you kind of have to wonder who is opponents really were.
WE HAVE lost our Moral Moorings!!! That’s why we have Obama now also!!
That was Nina Burlock or something like that.
Anytime a democRAT is mentioned, they have to say how "smart" they are. Typical BS.
“He is a smart guy who got far because his opponents constantly underestimated him.”
More we underestimated the support of the presstitutes, who gave Clinton shameless cover.
The press left the Clintons for Obama in 2009, and the Clintons were toasted
And BTW, serial rapes and sexual assaults are not an “immature attitude toward sex.” They are felonies.
Or the slimy Democrats who supported him.
He realized that they would do anything including offering their daughters to him to “service him” if it meant that they would maintain their power.
enchanted America out of its moral moorings,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said.
Yeah, I’m listening to BF about moral moorings...pleh.
Colonel, USAFR
"[Totenberg] was fired from [the National Observer] for plagiarism in 1972 regarding a profile she wrote of then-soon-to-be Speaker Tip O'Neill which included, without attribution, quotes from members of Congress that had previously appeared in The Washington Post.
"Totenberg was accused of using material without proper attribution by several staffers at the Legal Times, who claim she did so when one of her stories on [Douglas] Ginsburg 'bore an alarming resemblance to what I [Aaron Freiwald] had just given her.'"
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