{"id":373,"date":"2007-12-16T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T04:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/16\/before-i-was-certified-as-a-bush-hater\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T04:34:35","slug":"before-i-was-certified-as-a-bush-hater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/16\/before-i-was-certified-as-a-bush-hater\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I was Certified as a ‘Bush Hater’….."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve\u00a0received bushels of emails over the past few years denouncing my pinko liberal tendencies.\u00a0 Here’s a collection of some of the\u00a0highlights\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>after Bush Betrayal<\/strong> <\/a>came out in 2004. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was rummaging through some old material yesterday and came across this fervent review of Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I chuckled to see\u00a0this political science professor assert that the book did not contain anything about the “lies” of the Clinton era.\u00a0 The dude should have slowed down on his speed reading….<\/p>\n

Anyhow, here’s the review –<\/p>\n

\u00a0 DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong> November 5, 2000, Sunday<\/p>\n

SECTION: Books; Ed. Final; Pg. 1E<\/p>\n

HEADLINE: JUDGMENT DAY: AS ELECTION NEARS, AUTHORS VOTE ON CLINTON LEGACY<\/strong><\/p>\n

BYLINE: By …Norman Provizer<\/p>\n

\u00a0BODY:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wave good-bye. Our boy Bill will soon be packing his bags and dusting out the Lincoln Bedroom. Will he be remembered as the hero who crafted the biggest economic boom in recent memory? Or the randy goat who degraded the Oval Office and introduced innovative new uses for the cigar? This week, as we prepare to vote on Clinton’s successor, Books looks at three recent Clinton tomes – and their assessment of his legacy…..<\/p>\n

FEELING YOUR PAIN: The Exploitation and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By\u00a0 James Bovard\u00a0 (St. Martin’s Press, 432 pages, $26.95).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Author’s political leanings: Bovard might well be described as a Libertarian-leaning journalist who has never met a government program he liked and has never quite adjusted to the fact that the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia actually created a national government that was more than window dressing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Book in a nutshell: Bovard argues that the government “is now the most dangerous predator” on the block, and that Bill Clinton “stretched the power of\u00a0 government (the Evil Empire, if you will) on all fronts.” And the author says it all without even discussing sex, lies and semen stains.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clinton at his best: The author would have an easier time compiling a top-10 list of Hitler’s accomplishments than he would finding a single thing that Clinton did right. On second thought, Bovard might be tempted to cite the old British Army saying which holds that no man is ever a complete failure because he can always serve as a horrible example for others. In that sense, Clinton, in the author’s eyes, might be seen as the “best” horrible example you can find.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Passage Clinton would likely include in his own book: From Clinton’s perspective, this entire volume would provide a grand example of the conspiracy\u00a0 of unfairness that has so often shaped judgments of his presidency.\u00a0 After all,\u00a0 on page after page, Bovard condemns Clinton as virtually the devil incarnate. Yet, on issue after issue, he slides in a line noting that Clinton hasn’t been alone among residents of the White House in pursuing horrible policies and that\u00a0 many of what the author views as “pernicious” policy trends began long before Clinton arrived. Clinton’s war on drugs is a failure, but he didn’t start the war. Clinton’s trade policy is terrible, but Bush’s record on trade is an embarrassment. Clinton’s policy regarding people with disabilities is crazy, but the law he is following was a legacy of the Bush administration. The list goes on.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clinton at his worst: According to Bovard, just name any day, any policy, in fact, anything at all and you will see Clinton at his worst.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Passage Clinton would leave out of his own book: Anything found in the 432 pages of this book.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clinton’s legacy, according to the author: In Bovard’s eyes, “The principle\u00a0 of government supremacy is Clinton’s clearest legacy.” The author holds that Clinton “did more than any recent president to place the federal government above all laws.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Book’s strength: Bovard does offer a useful, muckraking examination of governmental “abuses” in areas ranging from the Internal Revenue Service to Waco. Whether or not one accepts his judgments, the constant monitoring of governmental policy is a necessity for liberal democracy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Book’s weakness: This anti-Clinton screed offers no insight whatsoever into\u00a0 the actual workings of the Clinton administration. It’s single chapter on foreign policy concerning Kosovo is weak, including its defense of Slobodan Milosevic (now the former president of Yugoslavia). It is replete with twisted half-truths. For example, Bovard chastises Clinton for an illegal, undeclared war in Kosovo without ever bothering to mention that, during the entire run of American history, there have been but four official declarations of war by Congress. If you want to get a handle on the Clinton years, read another book.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rating: While the book’s muckraking aspects deserve a 3, it is barely a 1 when it comes to explaining Clinton and his administration. On that front, Feeling Your Pain, is really a pain. – Norman Provizer<\/p>\n

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The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \"the roving inspector general of the modern state\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \"one-man truth squad.\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism & Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}