Book Review: Final Days
The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
By: Barbara Olsen
Who wants to go back to the Clinton years? Conservatives certainly don’t, and with the re-election of President Bush, it doesn’t appear that we will be going back anytime soon. However, the corruption of the Clinton White House should always be remembered, if for no other reason than to remind America how far some Democrats will go to retain power. The late Barbara Olsen, who died on a hijacked airplane in the 9/11 attacks, outlines the abuses of authority Bill and Hillary Clinton committed toward the end of their co-presidency in The Final Days. Olsen methodically presents facts that expose the actions of the Clintons as questionable at best and criminal at worst. While she can’t help but provide some pithy personal comments throughout, The Final Days is essentially a straightforward, if damning, indictment of Bill and Hillary’s last days in the Oval Office.
In the last few months of his presidency, Bill Clinton used executive orders to dole out favors to organized labor, environmentalists, and virtually all the other constituencies of the Democratic Party. He bypassed Congress and created dozens of national monuments, federalized millions of acres of land, committed the United States to several major international treaties, and added thousands of new government regulations.
After observing the actions of Bill Clinton in his last year as president, Olsen concludes that President Clinton used his presidential power to pardon criminals with the right Democratic connections and even to ensure that Hillary would become the next United States Senator from New York. In 1999 Bill Clinton pardoned several members of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nancional (FALN), a Marxist terrorist group from Puerto Rico. The decision was popular with Puerto Ricans in America, many of who happened to live in New York State. No matter that the families of the victims were not consulted and that the Justice Department, the FBI Director, and the U.S. attorney’s offices in Illinois and Connecticut opposed their release. All that mattered was that Hillary Clinton got votes.
By far the most outrageous abuse of his presidential power was Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich, the man who committed the largest tax fraud in the history of the United States. How did one of America’s most wanted fugitives manage to secure a pardon from the President of the United States without Justice Department approval? Olsen, after studying the Clintons for years, concludes that if one simply looks at the political history of the Clintons, the answer is obvious: money and influence. Denise Rich, the former wife of Marc Rich, had both. After her divorce from Marc Rich, Denise used her money to establish connections in Democratic circles. She gave at least $1.5 million to causes related to the Clintons alone. As Bill Clinton’s presidency wound down she collected by securing Marc Rich a pardon from the United States government.
In his final days as the leader of the free world, there is no doubt that President Clinton abdicated his responsibilities of being a president for all the American people. He chose to give out favors to his political allies instead of making decisions based on what was best for the country and America became a lesser nation for it. The late Barbara Olsen’s The Final Days will help us all remember that forever.
Any comments or questions can be received at whyyouareaconservative@gmail.com
~ The Conservative Guy
By: Barbara Olsen
Who wants to go back to the Clinton years? Conservatives certainly don’t, and with the re-election of President Bush, it doesn’t appear that we will be going back anytime soon. However, the corruption of the Clinton White House should always be remembered, if for no other reason than to remind America how far some Democrats will go to retain power. The late Barbara Olsen, who died on a hijacked airplane in the 9/11 attacks, outlines the abuses of authority Bill and Hillary Clinton committed toward the end of their co-presidency in The Final Days. Olsen methodically presents facts that expose the actions of the Clintons as questionable at best and criminal at worst. While she can’t help but provide some pithy personal comments throughout, The Final Days is essentially a straightforward, if damning, indictment of Bill and Hillary’s last days in the Oval Office.
In the last few months of his presidency, Bill Clinton used executive orders to dole out favors to organized labor, environmentalists, and virtually all the other constituencies of the Democratic Party. He bypassed Congress and created dozens of national monuments, federalized millions of acres of land, committed the United States to several major international treaties, and added thousands of new government regulations.
After observing the actions of Bill Clinton in his last year as president, Olsen concludes that President Clinton used his presidential power to pardon criminals with the right Democratic connections and even to ensure that Hillary would become the next United States Senator from New York. In 1999 Bill Clinton pardoned several members of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nancional (FALN), a Marxist terrorist group from Puerto Rico. The decision was popular with Puerto Ricans in America, many of who happened to live in New York State. No matter that the families of the victims were not consulted and that the Justice Department, the FBI Director, and the U.S. attorney’s offices in Illinois and Connecticut opposed their release. All that mattered was that Hillary Clinton got votes.
By far the most outrageous abuse of his presidential power was Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich, the man who committed the largest tax fraud in the history of the United States. How did one of America’s most wanted fugitives manage to secure a pardon from the President of the United States without Justice Department approval? Olsen, after studying the Clintons for years, concludes that if one simply looks at the political history of the Clintons, the answer is obvious: money and influence. Denise Rich, the former wife of Marc Rich, had both. After her divorce from Marc Rich, Denise used her money to establish connections in Democratic circles. She gave at least $1.5 million to causes related to the Clintons alone. As Bill Clinton’s presidency wound down she collected by securing Marc Rich a pardon from the United States government.
In his final days as the leader of the free world, there is no doubt that President Clinton abdicated his responsibilities of being a president for all the American people. He chose to give out favors to his political allies instead of making decisions based on what was best for the country and America became a lesser nation for it. The late Barbara Olsen’s The Final Days will help us all remember that forever.
Any comments or questions can be received at whyyouareaconservative@gmail.com
~ The Conservative Guy
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