Posted on 10/28/2017 4:01:23 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Amanda Staples, former GOP candidate for state Senate in Maine, said in Instagram post George HW Bush groped her in 2006
Staples was 29 at the time, and the maried ex-president was in his 80s
Novelist Christina Baker Kline was third to level groping claim at ex-president
Actresses Jordana Grolnick and Heather Lind have made similar claims
His spokesman says Bush patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner
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i am not saying they are the same-but alot of folks here are dismissing what Bush did altogether. I don’t want anyone to touch me uninvited.
Some can’t wait until they are old enough to get away with this behavior and have excuses made for them.
There is something wrong with this thinking.u can’t put hands on a woman or man just because you are hot for them.
Classic.
I agree with you. There are degrees of sexual assault. Obviously. I’ve been felt up on the bus. It’s not the same as being raped in a car or drugged at a bar. There are degrees for all criminal behavior.
No man should be grabbing the butt of a woman who isn’t his wife or girlfriend. Obviously it’s sexual in nature.
And if it were “dementia” which I know is a real thing then he shouldn’t be enabled about it. Were my husband doing this at every photo opp I’d stop the photo ops for example.
People expect decency from their president. This weird behavior pattern is not funny and it’s not ok. Even though it is not at Weinstein or Polanski level. It’s in the spectrum.
Suppose the school janitor were grabbing children’s butts on the playground. Would we wink at that? I’d hope not.
thank you!!!
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