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THE WHY-WOULD-WE-WANT-TO MEMOIRS

Former President Bill Clinton’s memoirs are filling the airwaves and news pages with a lot of despicable and sordid comment that, frankly, most of us just don’t want to hear again.

It’s really sad, right after President Reagan’s funeral, to know that young people are being exposed to the kind of stuff Clinton has pulled all his life, and the ‘’spinmeisters’’ are trying to make them think that he’s still someone to pay attention to and admire.

You know, once when I was working at the daily newspaper, a man called out of the blue and said that he had written a book that I just had to see. He said that he had worked as the golf caddy to the stars out in Beverly Hills for decades. It sounded pretty interesting. He said he had all kinds of great stories about Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and other big names and how he had interacted with them on the golf course.

I took a chance, set aside an evening, and started reading his manuscript.

He named about four stars he’d caddied for. His prose went like this:

‘’Then Clark Gable took out his 3 wood and hit a nice shot. ‘Nice shot, Mr. Gable,’ I said. ‘Thank you,’ he replied. On the next hole, he used his driver. ‘Way to hit it, Mr. Gable,’ I said. ‘Well, thanks,’ the star replied.’’

It went on and on like this for a couple of chapters. Absolutely devoid of anything that could be applied to anybody’s life, or do anybody any good.

And then the whole rest of the book was a bunch of sordid sex scenes from the guy’s own life.

And that was it.

That’s EXACTLY the caliber of insight and worthiness in the Clinton memoirs, and how I remember the Clinton presidency. Yet I’m sure Bill Clinton thinks HE has written a ‘’great’’ book, just like that crazy caddy. It’s almost kind of funny, if it weren’t so sad.

I wish I could do to the Clinton legacy what I did to the crazy guy’s manuscript: returned it to him with a smile, turned my back, rolled my eyes, and moved on to something more worthwhile.

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Prayer request: A young husband and father has been electrocuted. Kenny is the son of a neighbor’s friend. He works for the power company and it happened on the job. They got his heart working again on the scene and rushed him to the hospital Monday. Oh, Lord, we pray for Your healing power to cover him and bring him back to full function, for Your glory. (Romans 13:1)