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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  Starr Says Clinton 'Celebrity' Book Sweeps Aside Facts Thu Jul 08 2004 09:45:56 ET Former Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr writes in the Wall Street Journal: "At its best, [former President Bill Clinton's] book, 'My Life,' not only demonstrates the great natural gifts and steely determination of its subject, but points more broadly to the greatness of the country itself." Starr : Clinton's "epic-length reflections sweep aside not only the flinty facts, but the vital importance of history and tradition in our constitutional architecture. That impoverishment in the presentation reinforces the unfortunate sense that only personalities and (alleged) motivations count in modern public life, when in truth, it is the integrity of ideas and principles that have lasting consequences. "That is why we as a nation, over two centuries later, remembered once again not only Independence Day itself, but the ideas at the Founding given powerful voice by Thomas Jefferson when he and the other signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their 'sacred honor.' These principles, more fully anchored in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War amendments, have stood the test of time and will extend far beyond our own passing age of celebrity." |
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