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Because He Could

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Authors: Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

45 reviews
Sales Rank: 387007

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9

ISBN: 0060792132
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.929092
EAN: 9780060792138
ASIN: 0060792132

Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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A de-coder ring for Clinton's memoir, "My Life" January 1, 2005
12 out of 13 found this review helpful

Dick Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, wrote this book as a kind of de-coder ring for Clinton's memoir, "My Life". They had previously done the same thing with Hillary Clinton's "Living History" with strong results. I think this book is more lively and personal. This is because Morris was more personally involved with Bill than with Hillary. It is also obvious that he likes Bill more than he likes Hillary.

As with "Re-writing History", those who are passionate about the Clintons either way will likely be dissatisfied with aspects of this book. Morris believes in and talks about Bill's strengths and accomplishments. Morris is very clear on the brilliance of Bill's mind, his overpowering charisma, and his ability to learn from political setbacks.

However, Morris begins the book criticizing Bill for not taking enough credit or explaining all of his true accomplishments. He thinks that Clinton failed to put it all together because, Morris says, that Bill sees everything as a series of individual events, as very personalized stories. So, Bill doesn't see the big picture and how some things connect to other things. Morris then goes through all of the accomplishments of the eight years of the Clinton administration.

The rest of the book explains various aspects of what makes Bill tick. For example, on page 69, Morris says, " In Bill Clinton's world, no move could be made without someone at the ready to jump in front of him and take the bullet - whether they liked it or not." When one considers the trail of ruined lives left in the wake of both Clintons, I think this is an apt sentence.

Morris discusses Clinton's being AWOL on terror and why, that Clinton was a supreme politician who never wanted to be seen engaging in politics, that his most debilitating scandals grew out of his debt to Hillary for saving him from the Gennifer Flowers scandal, and it was Hillary who did not want to be put on the hot seat for the Travel Office Firings or her commodities trading. Although, Morris admits he cannot really put his finger on why did not settle with Paula Jones when that scandal first arose. The first settlement offer asked for no money and no apology. However, Clinton, fearing Hillary (Morris supposes), there were aspects of that whole thing that he could not admit to without angering Hillary.

The book also has a whole chapter dealing with errors in "My Life" and ends with a discussion of the Clinton Presidency and some thoughts about what it all meant.

It is a pretty good book, an easy read, and I think it makes a good contribution in balancing the Clinton propaganda put forth in "My Life". Morris took the title of this book from a statement Bill made in an interview about the Lewinsky scandal. Clinton makes one of his patented non-apologies by explaining that he engaged in the affair "because I could". It does say a lot about the character of the man and his sense of entitlement and license.

I do think that this book deserves to be widely read because of the candidacy of Hillary for President and 2008 and the Clintons belief in the Co-Presidency.

1 out of 5 stars

Contradiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 November 23, 2004
21 out of 58 found this review helpful

In his book, "Because He Could", Dick Morris refers to himself as Clinton's most trusted advisor.... And yet if we take the time to read President Clinton's book, "my life", we will see that Dick Morris was not in any way a close advisor to the president as he claims. In fact his only job was to take poll for the president and that didn't even last long. To prove my point that Dick Morris was not as close to President Clinton as he claims, I have quoted the following:
Examples: "My life" Page 258, "Dick Morris was so cocksure about everything that a lot of people found him hard to take
"My life" Page 283: "Hillary called Dick Morris, whom I had replaced with Peter Hart because my people hated dealing with Dick's abrasive personality."
"My life" Page 370: "I wanted Greenberg to be my pollster. I hated to give up Dick Morris, but by then he had become so involved with Republican candidates and officeholders that he was compromised in the eyes of virtually all democrats."
"My life" Page 660: "Most of the staff didn't like Dick because he was difficult to deal with, like to go around established White House procedures, and had worked for Republicans.
"My life" Page 723: "On the day of my speech, our campaign was rocked by press reports that Dick Morris had frequently been with a prostitute in his hotel room when he was in Washington working for me. Dick resigned from the campaign and I put out a statement saying that he was my friend who had done "invaluable work" over the past TWO years"... Keyword here is "TWO" not Eight, but "TWO"

You be the judge. Dick Morris was never as close and trusted by President Clinton as he claims. This guys is nothing more than an opportunisist who constantly changes party affiliation in order to make money. It is a shame that he would betray a president who stood by him till the end; just to make some money.

2 out of 5 stars

Bruised Egos & Easy Money November 21, 2004
16 out of 56 found this review helpful

I was recently at a bookseller in Wash. DC where Dick Morris was making an appearance, touting his newest release " Because He Could " Curious as to what he might say ( though it wouldn't take a degree to figure out which side Mr. Morris' opinions would fall ) I was surprised that the overall turnout for Mr. Morris included all of about 25 to 30 patrons. Some of who, no doubt, just happened to be in the store at the time he was scheduled to begin his, at this point in time, rather predictable diatribe against the Clintons. His appearance was short ( and if you're a Clinton-hater sweet as well! ) and filled with the usual brusque remarks concerning his former boss and, of course, Hillary also. Overall the entire episode felt rather sad with Dick Morris attempting ( and ultimately failing! ) to give the impression of an author who was 'fair and balanced' and had an important message to relay to Americans, one and all.

Now, I convey this story ( sad but true! ) simply as a vehicle of explaining just how desperate Mr. Morris has truly become. Its pathetic enough that first he sets his not-so intellectual sights on Hillary Clinton in that all-you-can-eat character assasination " Rewriting History " but to keep the gravey train a-rolling he now adds insult to injury by throwing his latesst temper tantrum at Bill Clinton. Does this man have any shame? Apparently Mr. Morris has forsaken all attempts at serious journalism and has become a full-time journalistic bottom-feeder who seems content to live off the Clintons legacy. How typically sleazy for a born-again Neocon who, ina desperate attempt to save his buised ego, sells out everyone he's known in an obvious attempt to cash in. And boy has he ever!

Granted Conservatives are generally riveted by anything that slanders the Clintons and, no doubt, consider Dick Morris to be a writer parellel with the likes of Theodore White or Robert Caro. Incredibly they continue to purchase Mr. Morris offerings as though he were Moses descending Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments! Reading others reviews it seems as though many fun-loving Republicans still haven't had their fill of Clinton bashing. Of course the whole affair is predictably sleazy and vindictive but whats to be expected? Amusingly many reviewers stated that they found Mr. Morris' book objective and insightful. I can only imagine that these misguided readers must have been living in a cave somewhere where they had no access to Fox News or Right-wing talk radio! Good lord! A book that carries all the intellectual honesty of the simply unreadable local Washington Times or that journalistic beacon Newsmax.

All in all here's a litmus test for dear readers everywhere. The next time you feel compelled to hand over your hard-earned dollar for one of these Right-wing temper tantrums better you might give to your local charity. Mr. Morris won't mind. He, along with the proverbial angry Zell Miller, have already become the Neocons favorite turncoats.

2 out of 5 stars

Dick Morris knows more about Exit polls , than Clinton, November 18, 2004
5 out of 36 found this review helpful

"Exit polls are almost never wrong... according to ABC-TV's exit polls, for example, Kerry was slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa....To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here." - Dick Morris. According to Mr. Morris polls so reliable they are used by the USA to guard against election fraud in other countries. The polls were right- investigate the E-Vote- WHO counted our votes? Does Dick Morris know?

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant! It Needed to Be Written. November 17, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

Once again, Dick Morris reveals what makes those C folks tick. He knows them better than they would like him to, I'm guessing. The author tells it as he sees it, good and bad.

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