Manny's Book Shelf: Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Invetigation By Ken Starr

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Invetigation By Ken Starr

This was an interesting book. Not salacious with sex detail but a "factual" (based on the author) timeline of the events leading up to the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton. When this ordeal was talking place, I was at the apex of my "troubled days" and the last thing on my mind and in my orbit was politics. I had always heard about Ken Starr and the impeachment proceeding but never really got into the details.

In this book, Starr discusses the events leading up to the impeachment proceedings. He gives some insight into his life growing up and his career choices. I have to admit, that the Clinton saga is an incredible tail that movies are made of. The coincidences of missing docs, missing people, suicides etc are extraordinarily difficult to believe.

Starr covers both Clintons in this book. Hillary's involvement in White Water and her testimony to the Grand Jury. The book is not an attack piece either. It seems to be an honest recollection of what the author went through.

In light of the recent (at the time of this writing) Kavanaugh kabuki theater, I have to ask myself how someone like Bill and Hillary are still viable, acceptable candidates for POTUS and still respected. I tend to believe that you can pay someone a couple of thousand dollars to make issues go away since it would be more distraction to deal with it otherwise, however if you pay someone $800,000.00+, this is smoke, and there is certainly fire. Close to a million dollars means that there was some serious impactful information there.

As mentioned above, if you are looking for detailed account of "slick Willy's" sexual escapades a la Fifty Shades, this is not it.