Clintons' 'Good Soldier' Explains All Those Messes

The New York Times ^ | 5/15/2003 | JANET MASLIN

[Utah Girl]

And here is a quote from Andrew Sullivan's review of The Clinton Wars.

Which reminds me what The Clinton Wars evoked for me. It has the tone and manner and piety of one of those "Lives of the Saints" books most Catholic school kids were once forced to read at some point or other. It’s not a memoir, or a history. It’s a Gospel. Its facts are assembled, as the facts in the Gospels were assembled, for one purpose only: to affirm the faith, to rally the flock, to spread the further glory of the Church. It’s an allegory of eternal good and evil—a passion narrative with a scriptural past and a resurrection at the end, the first-person narrative of one saint who prevailed.

[RetiredArmy]

Who or what is a "Bill Clinton?" ;^)

[JoeSixPack1]

Good catch on the Sullivan quote.

"snowballing hysteria" would ba another :-)

[Bigg Red]

Sounds like it's time for another Freep of the reader book review section at Amazon......

[billorites]

Who or what is a "Bill Clinton?"

It's like a penis, only smaller.

[Utah Girl]

Here is the link to Andrew Sullivan's review of The Clinton Wars.

St. Bill! In Sid’s Gospel (little Sid finds God in Bill)

[Howlin]

This book is like a godsend for us; it will just bring ALL the old lies up again, just when the Dems are almost as low as they can go.

Happy posting, everybody!

[sheik yerbouty]

"It takes a village idiot".

[TomB]

Here is a link to Sullivan's review. It's worth the read. He is so fond of Bulmenthal so he tries to be kind, but the book is so bad he ends up ripping him to shreds anyway.

Anyway, I got a kick out of this passage:

As a result, he observes like a reporter. (In describing how his "lubricated" former friend, Christopher Hitchens, betrayed him, Mr. Blumenthal describes a meeting in a restaurant. It is duly noted that Mr. Hitchens ran up a bar bill of $18.84 before Mr. Blumenthal arrived.)

In a DC bar, that covers about 3 drinks. And knowing Hitch, it takes a lot more than that to get him buzzed.

[Bahbah]

"It is duly noted that Mr. Hitchens ran up a bar bill of $18.84 before Mr. Blumenthal arrived."

How many drinks does it take in New York or DC to run up a bill like this, I wonder.

[Taliesan]

as the facts in the Gospels were assembled, for one purpose only

Many New Testament scholars have argued well that the gospels clearly DO NOT have the marks of apologia (see most recently "Jesus and the Victory of God" by T. Wright). And Luke, at least, claimed in his prologue to be writing with the intent to "...set out the truth of what you have been told..."

Which is what Blumenthal would say about himself, of course, but it is naive and unlearned to classify the gospels as apologia simply because they claim certain things about their chief subject. As if the only documents deemed to be accurate about an ostensible hero were by writers who had concluded he was not a hero.

There may have been once an actual good man.

But, where were we - oh yes, we were talking about Clinton.

[RetiredArmy]

Thanks. I did not know!!! hahahahhahaha ;^)

[Ruth A.]

And he was often in the presence of greatness. "I once sat with the president and Tony Blair as, in about 15 minutes, the two men easily thrashed out a prickly trade problem involving bananas and cashmere," he reveals.

Can greatness be found amidst bananas and cashmere? This is an elegantly perfect putdown.

[CaptainK]

"How many drinks does it take in New York or DC to run up a bill like this, I wonder"

Speaking from experience, one drink at the bar at the Rainbow Room could run you $18.

[Izzy Dunne]

those of the first part of the 21st century will stand in the shadow of Clinton.

Look again, Sid.
That dark stuff covering the ground all arond you is NOT a shadow.

[SGCOS]

...Clintons' 'Good Soldier' Explains All Those Messes

The explanation for that title can only be the 'purple helmeted warrior' in clintons left hand.

[Carolina]

Has the Squid gotten any TV or mag interviews promoting the book? Maybe he can get an interview with Oprah, now that Baba has won the exclusive.

[MEG33]

Check out Sullivan's review..it's a killer.

[Carolina]

Thanks. I read it earlier. Who's gonna volunteer to do a Freeper review?

[LiteKeeper]

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