I wonder how they would feel if it were them, or their wife or daughter, who was attacked by a powerful government figure...
Posted on 07/06/2004 5:12:58 AM PDT by presidio9
There's a typo on the cover of Bill Clinton's just-released memoir. The title reads "My Life." It should be "My Lie."
In the 957-page tome, the nation's 42nd president revisits his adulterous affair with a woman young enough to be his daughter. "During the government shutdown in late 1995," he writes, "I'd had an inappropriate encounter with Monica Lewinsky and would do so again on other occasions between November and April."
That corroborates Lewinsky's 1998 testimony before a federal grand jury that their sexual dalliances began in November 1995. But it contradicts Clinton's very own grand jury testimony that their affair didn't start until "early 1996."
Of course, it really didn't matter whether Clinton and his White House toy began their illicit relationship in November 1995 or early 1996. The reason Clinton cited the later date was to avoid the ignominious admission that he stooped to having sex with an intern — as Lewinsky was in the fall of 1995 — rather than a full-fledged White House staff member — as she was by winter 1996.
What really matters is that Clinton blatantly lied to the grand jury, after insisting all these years that he told the truth. And only now, with publication of a book for which he received a $10 million advance, has he deemed to fess up to the American people.
Well, as long as the former president is in a confessional mood, perhaps he will set the record straight about the other women he allegedly victimized, such as Kathleen Willey, who barely received a mention in his autobiography.
In an appearance on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" in March 1998, the former White House volunteer said that in November 1993 she met with Clinton in the Oval Office to beseech him for a full-time, paid position on the White House staff.
Willey said that the commander in chief embraced her, kissed her on the mouth, fondled her breasts and put her hand on his genitals. Clinton claims that "nothing improper happened."
Then there was Juanita Broaddrick, the Arkansas woman who, in February 1999 told "Dateline NBC" that she was raped by Clinton back when he was the Razorback State's attorney general. She said that Clinton assaulted her in a Little Rock hotel room, kissing her against her will, biting her lip, forcing her down on a bed and, finally, having non-consensual sex with her. Through his attorney, President Clinton said that Broaddrick's charge was "absolutely false."
Then there's Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who, in February 1994, accused Clinton of sexual harassment. Jones said that in 1991 she was propositioned in a Little Rock hotel by Clinton, who was Arkansas governor at the time. She asserted that the future president dropped his pants, exposed himself to her, and requested that she perform a sex act on him. To this day, Clinton maintains that Jones made it all up.
Finally, there is Gennifer Flowers, the Arkansas cocktail lounge singer, who in 1992 disclosed that she had had an ongoing adulterous affair with Clinton, who was stumping for the White House. Clinton denied a sexual relationship with Flowers during a 1992 interview aired on "60 Minutes." And his long-suffering wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, stood by her man, saying she didn't believe he had sex with such a woman.
Well, we know Clinton lied to the American people about his sexcapades with White House intern Lewinsky. We know he lied about his sexual liaisons with lounge singer Flowers. He conceded as much in sworn testimony.
But the former president continues to deny making a sexual advance on Willey, sexually assaulting Broaddrick and sexually harassing Jones. He continues to dissemble, to obfuscate as he has done throughout his public life, from the Arkansas state capital to the nation's capital.
Clinton hopes that his memoir will somehow raise his standing in the eyes of the American people, most of whom have an unfavorable view of the former president, according to a recent Associated Press poll.
But by refusing to do justly by the women he preyed upon, before and during his time in the White House, he only reinforces his legacy as one the most reprehensible figures ever to hold the nation's highest office.
In any interview, Clinton will lead the discussion to be about his doglike sexual behaviour. I wish an interviewer would cut him off and say, "Mr president, I'm more concerned with an American citizen being denied Justice when the President of the United States committed perjury, witness tampering, obstruction of Justice and Abuse of power."
If not Clinton, why the Rosenbergs?
Julius and Ethel?
If not Clinton, why Johnny Lind Walker?
Ain't it the truth.....
The same.
Why anyone? Clinton trumps them all.
So sad for these woman, especially those forced to have sex or be groped against their will. When mentioned around liberal co-workers, I always hear 'everyone did it, he just got caught'. I wonder how they would feel if it were them, or their wife or daughter, who was attacked by a powerful government figure...
Especially when it's brought up, over and over and over. It would probably go away, if no one talked about it.
History? Hell it is current events!
I wonder how they would feel if it were them, or their wife or daughter, who was attacked by a powerful government figure...
He can and he has. The really interesting scandal, the one that would be most devastating to Clinton, is the first one, the alleged rape that allegedly got him thrown out of Britain. If you really want to destroy Clinton, this is the one, if it can be proved. Naturally his opponents never even mention it.
There it is, when they say "he just got caught" ask them what Clinton got caught at. If the reply anything other than perjury, witness tampering, obstruction of Justice or abuse of power they are wrong. Clinton was not in trouble for having sex!
Thank you!
At the same time, anyone else would have been fired for having sex at work! We discussed this in the HR dept I worked in at the time this came out!
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