ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

GazerRise Fantastic!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

BillClintoonWasIMPEACHED Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998 because he broke the law! He lied under oath to a federal grand jury, which is punishable by five years in prison.He also obstructed justice, the same type of offense which led to the resignation of RIchard Nixon during the Watergate controversy.Clinton was a lawyer and he knew what he was doing was completely illegal! Clinton lied on national television stating that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky!" It's so pathetic that some people think it's unfair that the president was impeached because he broke the law. That is a fact.Bill Clinton is the second president in history to be impeached. He left office with one of the most untrustworthy ratings in history.This is an attempt by this so-called "documetary" to rewrite history as it actually happened. If Clinton didn't want to be impeached he should have told the truth, but he lied just like Richard Nixon and paid the consequences for it. Nixon resigned and Clinton was impeached. Nothing will ever change that.

bjackson98226 This is the best documentary yet on the vicious reichwing assault on Bill Clinton. The sound bites tell a powerful, disgusting story of the gang of thugs who had Clinton in their cross hairs from his earliest days in politics, with a bottomless pit of funding from Richard Mellon Scaiffe.Unfortunately, the comments are obscured and sometimes literally covered up by the melodramatic, amateurish music and a horrible audio mix. The production values are pure Public Access TV at best.Thus I give this important film a 10 for content and a one - since you don't have a zero - for production, an average of 5.

neilrichards By the very topic of this documentary, it would be hard for it not to be thought-provoking. However, I wasn't a fan of the way it was put together. The stock footage from old black-and-white that was used throughout to illustrate different events for which there was no other footage (raids on houses, sexual dalliances etc) was somewhat off-putting. What's wrong with talking heads? Are our collective attention spans so low now that we have to be constantly bombarded with images, even if they do not directly relate to the subject?I also thought the whole thing was rushed toward the end, with everything Lewinsky-related brushed over. This could be because the filmmaker/author is a Clinton friend and/or he feels the whole event was rather tawdry and not worthy of further analysis (possibly very true). However, if you do not have a great understanding of the 'Whitewater' affair (and I didn't) then you may find some of the film rather confusing as you try to put together the various names, faces and their roles within the whole debacle (I'm still trying to put together a couple of pieces of info and people - I'm like Jerry Seinfeld at the movies - "Why did he kill that guy? I thought he was with them? Why did he kill him?")Overall, this film raised some interesting, but not entirely original, points about the way the right-wing media and conservative groups are able to demonise and manipulate politics and events to suit their own needs. However, if you watch this on DVD, I strongly recommend the extra feature, which is of Clinton giving (an apparently off-the-cuff and without notes) 30-minute speech at the premiere of the film. Although this highlights the obvious partisanship behind the movie, it also reminds you what a brilliant, analytical mind the ex-president has - something the present incumbent could never hop to match.

dglink Another in a series of recent political documentaries that started with "Fahrenheit 911" and whose end does not seem to be in sight, "The Hunting of the President" is the least successful so far. While the film does have its moments, especially those that detail the brutalizing of Susan McDougal, the filmmakers try to squeeze too much into the short running time. Comments, images, and events flash by, especially towards the beginning, and left this viewer a bit confused. The clips from old movies, which I assume were for comic effect, could have been omitted as they only added to the clutter. Perhaps someone who has read the book would be able to follow the portrayed events better than someone who has to rely on their memory of newscasts from the period. While the film is definitely worth watching if for nothing else than as a history review, the talk given by President Clinton at the film's premiere, which is included on the DVD, is a concise and masterful lecture on political trends in American history and is more engrossing than much of the documentary. Mr. Clinton easily could pursue yet another successful career as a history professor