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The Clinton Crack-Up Has Arrived Paul Crespo
Book: "Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House"
Press clippings might suggest Bill Clinton has led a charmed existence since vacating the White House — globe-trotting and giving $100,000 speeches, basking in the spotlight, and joyfully waiting for his significant other to return the power couple to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But now a newly released book rips the mask off the Clinton charade, and R. Emmett Tyrrell's blockbuster will be an unwelcome addition to the barrage of criticism the Clintons have received along the way to the expected anointing of President Hillary. Tyrrell's "The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House" (Thomas Nelson) is the first detailed account of what the former president has really been up to since he left the White House. [Editor's Note: Check out our FREE offer for this book -- Go Here Now] "Clinton Crack-Up" has already generated significant buzz before publication, getting comments from Robert Novak, the Drudge Report, and NewsMax, among others.
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Hillary Cries Conspiracy — Again Apparently, in a pre-emptive broadside, Hillary has recently revived her famous "vast right-wing conspiracy" charge during a campaign stop to New Hampshire. Hillary has good reason to fear. Tyrrell's magazine, American Spectator, where he serves as editor in chief, started the nightmarish scandal reports on the Clintons with its famous "Troopergate" report in 1994. Tyrrell also authored The New York Times muckraking best-seller, "The Boy President." Since Hillary, "the most scandal-tarnished woman in American politics," played such a prominent role in Bill's presidency, she too features prominently in this book.
In a fitting backdrop to her recently launched presidential campaign, Tyrrell reveals the Clinton plan to put Hillary in the White House using Bill's notorious example. "The Clintons," Tyrrell writes in his magazine, "are the most exaggerated figures in modern American political history." The book may also offer some payback to the Clintons. Tyrrell and the Spectator, after focusing on exposing Clinton's scandals during his presidency, was investigated (and exonerated) by a federal grand jury. Tyrrell, however, proudly notes that he "might be the only editor in America's literary history who, during government harassment, found the experience thoroughly enjoyable — no public bawling from me, not even a curse word." Still, the picture of post-president Bill Clinton painted by Tyrrell is not a rosy one. He describes how Bill Clinton, after leaving the White House, has physically deteriorated and became a tortured soul. Desperate for public attention, he has to carefully avoid upstaging Sen. Hillary during her quest to become President Hillary. Driven from home by his angry wife, Bill remains restlessly active just outside public view, striving endlessly to burnish his tarnished image Bill's Calamity in All Ports Tyrrell compares Bill to a "ghost ship" (similar to the cursed Flying Dutchman) that plies the seas bringing calamity to whomever it comes in contact with. In Bill's case, he does so while grabbing fistfuls of cash from whoever will pay his huge speaking fees. The "Clinton Crack-Up" also describes how Bill Clinton's extravagant post-presidency has cost the American taxpayer far more than Bush 41 and more than Ford and Carter combined. Yet, this elegant, taxpayer-provided lifestyle has not kept the luxury-obsessed boy president from devoting himself to amassing a multi-million dollar fortune through shameless money-grubbing across the globe, often from unsavory sources. Tyrrell reports Clinton has raked in some $43 million since leaving the White House. Harry Truman refused to commercialize the presidency and lived off his government pension. But Tyrrell writes that with Bill Clinton, the buck really does stop with him. His oversized dependence on foreign campaign contributions during his presidency, and on foreign cash in his post-White House days, is unprecedented. Due to this dependence, Bill has regularly and illegally sold himself, and our country, to the highest bidder. The chapters titled "Ghost Ship" and "The Chop Suey Connection" describe Clinton's incessant globe-trotting and lucrative financial connections to many of these unsavory sources.
China's Lurid Association With Bill China in particular has played an ongoing financial role in Clinton's life; recall the illegal Chinese campaign contributions. China subsequently received tremendous benefits from the Clinton administration's weakened controls over the transfer of sensitive strategic technology. These transfers allowed the Chinese to make a quantum leap in both their conventional and nuclear weapons capability which are now threatening us. For example, in 1993, a Chinese firm controlled by the Chinese military acquired an entire McDonnell-Douglas aerospace plant in Ohio. They took it apart, and using 275 semi trailers, transported the plant to the West Coast, and then shipped it back, whole, to China. According to Tyrrell's sources up to 95 percent of that plant was defense related. This included sophisticated machine tools needed for missile and aircraft production. These machines significantly enhanced the performance, speed, range and maneuverability of their fighter jets, bombers, and missiles. Pardons for Sale In the "Pardongate," chapter Tyrrell shows how Clinton's last-minute pardons broke every rule for granting pardons. Many were allegedly tied to large campaign contributions. According to one investigator, "While other Presidents had issued controversial pardons and commutations, never before had a president made so many grants of clemency with so little justification." Especially prominent in these numerous "pardons for pay" was Marc Rich, an unrepentant felon whose former wife, Denise, was distributing large sums of money to the Democratic Party and Bill's favorite charities. Rich fled the U.S. after receiving "indictments on 51 counts including of tax evasion, mail fraud, wire fraud, racketeering, and trading with the enemy." His initial trading with the enemy indictment stemmed from his financing the radical Iranian government by illegally buying oil from Iran. He did this even as U.S. embassy officials were being held hostage there. After fleeing to Switzerland he continued trading with rogue regimes. But there may have been worse criminals pardoned by Bill. Harvey Weinig was convicted as a key money launderer for the Cali drug cartel. He too was unrepentant and never cooperated with authorities. His wife made large political donations to the Democratic Party. Prosecutors were furious at the pardon. Another Cali Cartel figure whom Bill pardoned was "Jorge Cabrera, who, after contributing $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee, was invited to the White House Christmas party in 1995. Within six months he was serving a 19-year term for trafficking in huge amounts of cocaine," writes Tyrrell. The final chapters describe the amazing tale of the Comeback Kid after his disgraceful departure from the White House in 2001. They detail how in 2002 many of Clinton's former friends asked him not to help their campaigns and why, among Democrats, Bill's image and value improved in 2003. The Hillary hit team surely will try to discredit Tyrrell and his book. One "progressive" critic has already viciously attacked Tyrrell and his use of anonymous sources, but a book like this cannot be written unless some sources are unnamed. Bob Woodward, for one, has used them generously in his many similar books. The "Clinton Crack-Up" is an immensely informative and highly readable book. And it's a must-read, considering the very real possibility of Hill and Bill returning to the White House in 2009.
Paul Crespo teaches politics at the University of Miami and hosts a political talk-radio show in Miami. www.paulcrespo.com
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