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| Dave U. Random... |
 Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:42 am |
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(NY Times) - The anecdotes in “The Clinton Tapes”
(Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/ClintonTapes ) range from heavy-
duty insights into the relationship between Yasir Arafat
and Yitzhak Rabin to Elizabeth Taylor’s question about
whether Clinton has checked out Sophia Loren’s breasts at a
state dinner. (Clinton, typically, claims he didn’t inhale,
then admits that his gaze had indeed wandered south.) The
rowdy, discursive intellectual brilliance of the man is
evident on almost every page, and so is the self-
indulgence, self-pity and self-destructiveness — the
magisterial excessiveness of every sort. Compared with the
buttoned-up cool of the Oval Office’s current occupant,
Bill Clinton is a one-man carnival — a magician, tightrope
walker, juggler, mesmerist, hot-dog-eating contestant and
burlesque show. You kind of miss the guy...
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