Dan Rather gives Clinton's memoir 5 stars according to The New York Observer. How are you to take a memoir from a man who has no trouble lying in court? The fact that he still blames others for his dishonesty makes me think he wasn't ready to write this book. What he said about Susan McDougal the other night is revealing. McDougal was put in jail for contempt of court after refusing to answer questions about her Arkansas land deal with Clinton.
"Susan McDougal was a victim of abuse of power," Mr. Clinton said. "She was simply a political pawn."
The only reason for Susan McDougal to clam up would be to shield her own self from even more jail time or to protect the president. If Clinton is saying that she is a political pawn then she was put in jail for protecting him. If Clinton had been so worried about Mrs. McDougal he could have told her to protect herself by speaking. There's nothing like a touchy feeling man sending a woman to take the fall.
As always with Clinton he can't see his own culpability. It’s always others that fail. His personal corruption is married to his goals of equality of mankind. You’ll have to accept one if you want the other. It's a shame that McDougal went to jail, but Clinton was irreplaceable. It’s more important that he continue to work for the American people. He's suggesting that prosecutors should know that he is untouchable like a mob boss and they will only be putting the people in jail that are protecting him. Prosecutors should just learn to layoff and let him make his own rules.
The difference between Nixon and Clinton is that Nixon felt a modicum of shame for the damage he wrought. Clinton is sure that his egalitarian goals trump any sort of personal corruption.
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