Clinton book deal: Payoff for a job well done
By Charles A. Morse
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posted August 13, 2001
Former President Bill Clinton's memoir is not likely to sell well enough to recoup the $10 million advance reportedly offered by publishing house Alfred A. Knopf. The people at Knopf, owned by Random House, which is owned by German media giant Bertelsmann AG, are savvy enough to understand this. They'll be lucky if even a handful of die-hard liberals, the type who would worship Clinton even if he were to be taken away in chains, buy the book for their coffee tables and private libraries. Clinton's record indicates that nothing of consequence will be written. The book will be the usual insufferable left-wing ego message.
Why
then, is this publisher willing to flush $10 million down the proverbial
hopper? Surely not because of any prestige such a book would attract.
It is my conjecture that this is a payoff to Clinton for eight years of
carrying the water for the liberal cause. Clinton himself, based on observation,
has always been primarily motivated by fame and money.
Clinton always understood that the core of power in this country was with the liberal elite which was why he ambitiously sought to insinuate himself into their inner circles early on. He considered his Georgetown University Professor, Carroll Quigley, a major liberal kingmaker and the author of "Tragedy and Hope," to be his mentor and said as much at his acceptance speech for the Presidential nomination, July 16, 1992. James K. Fitzpatrick, in an editorial in The Wanderer, November 18, 1993, stated the following:
"Clinton told reporters in an interview that Quigley's work centered on the existence of a permanent shadow government of powerful bankers and businessmen and government officials that controls the agenda of our political life from behind the scenes. Clinton spoke in that interview of coming to the conclusion, while still a young man, that it was necessary for him to gain access to the inner circle of this group in order to become part of the decision-making process that shapes our world."
Clinton furthered the liberal establishment goal of strengthening the executive branch and all of its agencies. The most brutal and obvious result of this trend was the fire bombing of a private home near Waco Texas resulting in the incineration of about 100 innocent fellow citizens. A more subtle manifestation would be the number and nature of constitutionally questionable executive orders signed into law. Clinton aide Paul Begala summed up this policy with his famous quip "stroke of the pen, law of the land...kinda cool."
In foreign policy, Clinton expanded US military presence across the globe thus further entangling us into the increasing presence favored by the liberal elite. On May 3, 1994, Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 25, which describes how American soldiers will serve under United Nations auspices. Sidestepping Congress, Clinton often used the military as a Roman Emperor would use a Praetorian Guard, to serve a personal agenda.
Clinton's philosophy was starkly revealed during an appearance on the MTV show "Enough is Enough," April 19, 1994, when he stated in response to a questioner praising the low crime rate in Singapore:
"My own view is that you can go to the extreme in either direction. And when we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical bill of rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...But it assumed that people would basically be raised in coherent families, in coherent communities, and they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare.
What's happened in America today is, too many people live in areas where there's no family structure, and no work structure. And so there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how were going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities."
Clinton believes that individual freedom is an anachronism that needs
to be replaced by a more socialistic state. This is because, according
to Clinton, "there's no family structure...there's a lot of irresponsibility."
Who do we have to thank for that? Clinton is being rewarded with lucre
for his success in eroding the Constitution. 
Chuck Morse is the author of the upcoming book "Why I'm a Right-Wing Extremist."
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