Posted on 05/20/2005 8:17:26 PM PDT by woofie
Bill Clinton has seen the dark side but - fittingly in a week in which Star Wars mania has swept America - was saved by the light.
A new extract in the paperback edition of his autobiography reveals that the former US president was prey to bizarre apparitions while under anaesthetic for heart surgery last year.
"At first I saw a series of dark faces, like death masks, flying towards me and being crushed," Mr Clinton writes.
Then, in what could be a metaphor for his political trials and tribulations during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he reveals that his family pulled him through. "Then I saw circles of light with the face of Hillary, Chelsea, and others I cared about flying towards me, then away into a bright, sun-like source," the former president says.
When Mr Clinton regained consciousness after surgery he apparently "waved to people, said I was all right and laughed". At least that is what his wife, Senator Rodham Clinton, told him. The former president does not remember.
The paperback edition of My Life is due to go on sale in the US at the end of the month. Much of the new material - a 12-page afterword, and a brief preface - summarises his recent activities, including his fundraising for tsunami relief.
He also offers a quick analysis of last year's presidential election, urging his fellow Democrats not to move "hard to the left".
He also acknowledges that the book - which one critic likened to being trapped "in a small room with a very gregarious man who insists on reading his entire appointment book, day by day, beginning in 1946" - might have been a bit too long.
"Most people thought it was too long - a fair criticism. Thomas Jefferson once said that if he had had more time he could have written shorter letters," he writes in the afterword which helps to make the paperback even longer, at a terrifying 969 pages.
Then, in what could be a metaphor for his political trials and tribulations during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he reveals that his family pulled him through. "Then I saw circles of light with the face of Hillary, Chelsea, and others I cared about flying towards me, then away into a bright, sun-like source," the former president says.
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Wow which is scarier? The dark or the light?
"What light?!?"-Elwood
Remember, always head toward the dark...I mean the light
I wouldn't buy his rag "my life". I would only buy it if he renamed it to "My Lies" and confessed to all the crooked crap he's done, but then it would be beyond the 996 pages :)
I wonder if Berger will smuggle this book out of Barnes & Noble in his pants
He also offers a quick analysis of last year's presidential election, urging his fellow Democrats not to move "hard to the left".
Do you think Bill has stopped moving hard towards anything in a skirt?
Then, in what could be a metaphor for his political trials and tribulations during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he reveals that his family pulled him through. "Then I saw circles of light with the face of Hillary, Chelsea, and others I cared about flying towards me, then away into a bright, sun-like source," the former president says.
Put that man in Area 51. It could have worse, though, he could hallucinated about Madeline Albright or Babs Streisand flying toward him..
exDemMom wrote:
Yet more fiction to add to his autobiography. Really--how many people remember or dream anything during surgery?
--> Yup, I remember those times, Flying high with the squirels, jumping tree to tree, holding paws with the squirels around the campfire, singing KOOMbaya until the morning light, then i woke up. /Sarc
He's lying, as usual. He received Versed, which wipes the memory clean during surgery and shortly thereafter. Do you suppose he thinks his fabricated visions will help the Hidebeast in 06 or 08? Bwahahaha ... the sinkEmperor is still stuck with what really happened and is happening to his lowness.
I could care less if Bill Clinton had been taken to a galaxy, far far away by Tom Cruise and John Travolta. The man will go down as one of the most self-absorbed, boring and ultimately inconsequential human beings of the Twentieth Century.
Heart surgery was a facade. Hill and the Chinese Masters had to put Bill under to update his implanted Manchurian device.
I have had 2, and do not remember one single, solitary thing. I think it is bogus.
Actually .. a lot of people do - and a lot of people have out of body experiences during surgery.
And .. because I have studied spiritual things, I can tell you that if he actually saw those things (and I'm not sure he did) - then he didn't see any "light" .. what he saw - the dark faces - was a taste of what is to come for him if he will not repent and turn his life over to GOD. He may never do that.
As for the faces of Hillary and Chelsea which he saw as the light - it was a deception - an escape from the reality of having to make a choice between darkness (where he is) and the real "light of GOD".
Bwahahahaha ... good one! Wonder if they took the bent out of the bent one?
If he's trying to say he had a "near death experience," he got it all wrong. People who have had them go towards a light but the "people" they see are loved ones who have died.
How many of those images were wearing thongs?
Billy Jeff is a lying sack of sh*t. If he really has had an NDE, he would say so and repudiate his past.
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