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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! How the Clintons Destroyed the Village By Jason D. Fodeman February 8, 2002 Receive FREE updates by email: Back to Main Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- It's all About Sex… No! Now we find out that it was even more than malfeasance, perjury, hush money, renting the Lincoln bedroom, FBI files, disappearing emails, and White House campaign calls. Now, it's also about neglect, nonfeasance, terrorism, thousands of American civilians dead. But… They still love him, He's Clinton the Teflon President. Hi, as Mr. Irvine said, my name is Jason Fodeman. I am an eighteen year old freshman at Johns Hopkins University. As Mr. Irvine also told you, I am here because I have written a 219 page manuscript entitled "How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old." It is truly an honor to be here today to discuss my manuscript and I would like to thank Accuracy in Media for giving me this generous opportunity to speak. I have worked on my manuscript for more than a year, relating the dichotomy between the Clinton legacy and the mainstream teaching of parental values. The book chronicles the Clintons' misdeeds, the complicity of the Justice Department, and the free pass by a largely adoring media. It leads to a conclusion that all too often parents prostituted those values, turning a blind eye to the scandals while sending a confusing mixed message to their progeny. The book contains a timely and important message. The target audience is all parents and all those in loco parentis who expect children to live up to the lofty goals they espouse but often fail to achieve themselves. I am sure that some of you must be wondering what got me so interested in politics and what motivated me to write a book. After all, its rather an arduous task to get some of today's youth just to read a book! In all honesty, politics is a rather new interest of mine. As I say in my manuscript, obviously, at age nine when Bill Clinton became President, I had no political beliefs. I didn't start seriously getting interested in government and politics until the summer before my high school senior year. At the time and currently my main career interest is medicine. I love kids and want to be a pediatrician. However, in today's society it is important that doctor's have some business sense too and also it is important for all people to learn how to invest for future needs. Knowing this, I thought that it would be a good experience for me to do a summer internship at an investment firm. I eventually wound up at Salomon Smith Barney. The work I performed that summer was certainly not the most exciting I have ever done. I mostly did tedious scut work. However, the experience did have two profound, lasting effects. As expected, the internship kindled my interest in the stock market, but also got me interested in something else, something called politics. Up until that time, I had only heard the word "politics" once before. It was during my days as a pre Babe Ruth baseball player. I was fortunate enough to play on an after season All Star team (it was either a summer or fall team, I forget which). Anyway my playing time left me confused. For some reason, some of the other kids, whom I didn't think were as good players as I was, got significantly more playing time than I did. And when I did play, I always batted near last, if not last, which was a spot, I felt, did not parallel my batting skills. It was frustrating, so I asked my dad. He explained the situation. According to him, it was no coincidence that the coaches' sons got to start and bat high up in the lineup. It was also no coincidence that the sons of the father's who were willing to lavishly schmooze with the coach at practice and games were also given priority. It was no accident, it was something called politics, he said. The word left me indignant. It made me sit on the bench and watch when I really wanted to get my opportunity, any opportunity, to do what I love, which is play baseball. At the time I was clueless as to the breadth of the word's meaning. Was politics only a baseball word such as line-drive, double play, and South Paw? Did other sports have politics too? Was there such thing as politics outside of sports? It was all Greek to me. The years flew by and I completely forgot about that evil word. However, at Salomon Smith Barney I was reunited with my arch nemesis. The financial consultant whom I reported to each day, suggested that I couple my work experience with outside reading, so I could maximize my experience and learn the most. I wanted to take in as much as possible. That is why I was there in the first place, so I concurred. It's funny how little occurrences, events that at the time mean nothing, can sometimes have major effects on one's life. This suggestion had those mammoth effects. I read Warren Buffet's book, "The Warren Buffet Way." The book was interesting, but also depressing for me because it was the book my close uncle, Robert Fodeman was reading when he died. After this read, my dad recommended that I start to read The Wall Street Journal. I skimmed through the paper and then I got to the editorial page. I read one, found it interesting, and then read another, and another, and another until I had read every article on the page. I was fascinated and I was hooked. Every day after work and then after school, I would rush home to read the daily insight from The Wall Street Journal editorial page. I soon found the cable news channels: Fox, CNN, and MSNBC and I then found their political shows such as "The O'Reilly Factor", "Equal Time", "Hardball", "Crossfire", and my personal favorite "Hannity & Colmes." I was intrigued by the sophisticated issues these shows discussed and their relevance to my life. I made amends with politics and became an aficionado of it as I am with specific professional and college sports. Devoting as much time to learn about political issues, arguments, and events as possible. The above explains my trip from a political know nothing to a political fan. However, I am sure you are also curious what motivated me to write a 219 page manuscript. Surely, there are many teenagers who are interested in politics, but I can confidently say that few have also written political manuscripts. I have a wide array of interests what made me write about politics. Why didn't I pick baseball? Music? Movies? The Simpsons? There are many interests I could have written a book about, if I was inclined to do so, so what made me chose to write about politics? I was brought up to always give back to the community and have always endeavored to do this. During my four years of high school I was a volunteer at different departments in the local hospital. When I went job hunting for the first time, I found the experience difficult because there were certain things I did not know due to my age. Since I consider myself the average teen, I figured if I didn't know something, then odds are the person sitting next to me didn't know it either. Thus I wrote my experiences and the lessons I learned in a pamphlet, in the hope that I could make the experience easier for my peers and those younger. I applied for and was rewarded a United Way grant to publish this work. My manuscript, "How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old," was my way of giving back. Much has been said about the Clinton scandals over the years, but I believe there was one perspective that was missing and that perspective is the effect that the never ending scandals had on our impressionable youth. The experts have spent significant time trying to delve into what is wrong with today's youth. These pundits have done a good job looking into the negative effects that violent movies, violent video games, and violent music have had on our children. These forms of entertainment may have contributed to such tragic events as school shootings such as the Columbine massacre. However, although these school shootings receive enormous press, they are few and far between. What has caused the more frequent everyday wrongdoing of young adults such as lying, not taking responsibility, and insulting others? I believe that part of the problem is the Clinton legacy. 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