Bush's fault still....he was wearing a Clinton mask < /Sarcasm >
Have you ever approached Juanita Broaddrick?
AN OPEN LETTER TO HILLARY CLINTON
BY JUANITA BROADDRICK
'DO YOU REMEMBER?'
SUNDAY OCT 15, 2000
As I watched Rick Lazio's interview on Fox News this morning, I felt compelled to write this open letter to you, Mrs. Clinton. Brit Hume asked Mr. Lazio's views regarding you as a person and how he perceived you as a candidate. Rick Lazio did not answer the question, but I know that I can. You know it, too.
I have no doubt that you are the same conniving, self-serving person you were twenty-two years ago when I had the misfortune to meet you. When I see you on television, campaigning for the New York senate race, I can see the same hypocrisy in your face that you displayed to me one evening in 1978. You have not changed.
I remember it as though it was yesterday. I only wish that it were yesterday and maybe there would still be time to do something about what your husband, Bill Clinton, did to me. There was a political rally for Mr. Clinton's bid for governor of Arkansas. I had obligated myself to be at this rally prior to my being assaulted by your husband in April, 1978. I had made up my mind to make an appearance and then leave as soon as the two of you arrived. This was a big mistake, but I was still in a state of shock and denial. You had questioned the gentleman who drove you and Mr. Clinton from the airport. You asked him about me and if I would be at the gathering. Do you remember? You told the driver, "Bill has talked so much about Juanita", and that you were so anxious to meet me. Well, you wasted no time. As soon as you entered the room, you came directly to me and grabbed my hand. Do you remember how you thanked me, saying "we want to thank you for everything that you do for Bill". At that point, I was pretty shaken and started to walk off. Remember how you kept a tight grip on my hand and drew closer to me? You repeated your statement, but this time with a coldness and look that I have seen many times on television in the last eight years. You said, "Everything you do for Bill". You then released your grip and I said nothing and left the gathering.
What did you mean, Hillary? Were you referring to my keeping quiet about the assault I had suffered at the hands of your husband only two weeks before? Were you warning me to continue to keep quiet? We both know the answer to that question.
Yes, I can answer Brit Hume's question. You are the same Hillary that you were twenty years ago. You are cold, calculating and self-serving. You cannot tolerate the thought that you will soon be without the power you have wielded for the last eight years. Your effort to stay in power will be at the expense of the state of New York. I only hope the voters of New York will wake up in time and realize that Hillary Clinton is not an honorable or an honest person.
I will end by asking if you believe the statements I made on NBC Dateline when Lisa Myers asked if I had been assaulted and raped by your husband? Or perhaps, you are like Vice-President Gore and did not see the interview.
Juanita Broaddrick
Arkansas
Hitlery, the victim, right?? Hardly. I read the book, and much of it was known even before the book was written. I recommend it for all who care about what is left of the real American government. AND WHO IS TRYING TO TAKE IT OVER AND RE-DESIGN IT.
What these two did to Juanita is what really really ticks me off about billy graham placing his cloak over these two.
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Text Of Speech By Katherine Prudhomme
Activism/Chapters Breaking News Announcement Keywords: KATHERINE PRUDHOMME HILLARY CLINTON RAPE PROTEST
Source: Press Release - Katherine Prudhomme
Author: Katherine Prudhomme
Posted on 08/19/2000 19:07:59 PDT by evilC
Speech written and given by Katherine Prudhomme
Saturday August 19, 2000
Good afternoon. My name is Katherine Prudhomme. I am a wife, a mother, the first female graduate of my trade high schools machine shop program and I am a rape survivor. As such I am wearing a dark green ribbon today to tell the world "I am a rape survivor and I will not be ashamed!" I thank all who have chosen to wear light purple ribbons showing that they believe and support Juanita Broaddrick. Thank you also to the many generous volunteers who helped make this happen today.
Last December during the New Hampshire primary I asked V.P Al Gore during a live, televised town hall meeting at WNDS TV studios not far from my Derry home if he believed Juanita Broaddrick. She is the woman who made the highly credible claim of rape against a sitting president, William Clinton.
Juanita Broaddrick was a volunteer on the "Clinton for Governor" campaign when she says she was raped in a Little Rock, Arkansas hotel room. Broaddrick, a successful nursing home owner with nothing but peace of mind to gain from telling her story was interviewed by Lisa Myers in January 1999. The interview aired February 24 of the same year on the Dateline NBC program.
Most people who saw the interview believed Mrs. Broaddrick. President Clinton, responding through his lawyer, has said this claim is false. Havenít we been down this road before with Clinton? And havenít we found out what his word is worth? His word is worth nothing. To not believe Mrs. Broaddrick, to think Bill Clinton is not a rapist is to make a liar out of Mrs. Broaddrick. I wonít do that! I thank all of you who came out here today for saying with me ñ I believe Juanita Broaddrick!
Al Gore told me he did not see the interview and didnít know how to evaluate all the charges. I wonder what made the Anita Hill case so much easier for him to evaluate? Gore went on to tell me how he thought the American people were tired of all these charges and wanted to move on.
That last statement really made me mad. What is he saying to me? That if I donít "want to move on" then I am not one of the American people? Or is he telling those who still think that rape is a crime in this country and believe their president may be a rapist that they are out of touch with everybody else? Are we out of touch ? I say no! We are in fact in touch! WE are in touch with truth, we are in touch with justice, we are in touch with kindness and we are in touch with doing the right thing! And I wonít be manipulated by anyone who may try to tell me otherwise!
Gore has an undeniable record of believing women when they make a serious charge of sexual mistreatment by powerful Republican men. He stood up for and defended Anita Hill when she said she was sexually harassed by now Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Why then did he just dismiss Juanita Broaddrick? One would think such a "caring" person as Gore would have at least watched the interview Mrs. Broaddrick gave to Lisa Myers.
But he did not. Mrs. Broaddrick is simply to inconvenient for him to acknowledge. It takes a strong person to stand up for what is right when it is inconvenient and I learned that day last December that Gore is not a strong person.
Letís move on to a women who has been at the forefront of the womenís and human rights crusade for decades. Hillary Clinton is someone that rape survivors such a myself or Mrs. Broaddrick or the brave green ribbon wearers among us should be able to turn to and depend on. But we cannot. Hillary Clinton has betrayed us.
She has words ñ thousands of them ñ that say she is on our side, but is she really? Consider these examples:
In the aftermath of the recent group sexual attacks during New Yorkís Puerto Rican Day Parade Mrs. Clinton called for increased penalties on those convicted of group sexual wilding. Of this incident Mrs. Clinton has said "We all looked on in horror at the videotapes because we know these women. They are wives, and sisters, and daughters. They are friends and neighbors. We know that if it could happen there - in broad daylight ñ it could happen anywhere. This is a crime against all women ñ everywhere. And so we have to say enough is enough. This violence is unacceptable and it must stop."
Well, Hillary I feel your pain, because I too have a videotape, a videotape of Juanita Broaddrick telling her story to Lisa Myers that I will give you today. It is a videotape that I have looked upon in horror. And when it told a tale of disgusting violence committed against a woman in broad daylight... A women who could have been my sister, my daughter or my mother... I too have to say "enough is enough ñ this violence is unacceptable and must stop".
Also consider what Mrs. Clinton said to the Inter-American Development Bank on October 20, 1997, "I am proud that my husband has stood up as President to confront the violence and to protect American women. While grassroots organizing by women is vital to each countryís tackling the crisis, it is only when men ñ from the level of men of the barrio to the level of men of the presidential palaces ñ join hands with us to stand against violence against women that we will know our societies have truly been transformed"
President Clinton has stood up to confront violence and protect American women? Why then has he refused to say anything other than this rape allegation is not true - and with this man we would be foolish to believe his words alone ñ we need proof! Why wonít he tell the American people where he was on the date in question - April 25, 1978? At that time Mr. Clinton was Attorney General of Arkansas. Those records do exist. Why canít he take a stand on this and tell us where he was that morning? Mrs. Clinton you have said you talk with your husband about everything. What have you said to him about this? Because it is only when the men at the highest levels of our society, such as men of the presidential palaces join hands with us to stand against women that we will know our societies have truly been transformed...
That is why I, such a little person from Derry, New Hampshire believe that I truly have no choice today but to resort to this grassroots organizing. Grassroots organizing that I know that you, Mrs. Clinton, deep in your heart would not only approve of but applaud, if only I were not here to stand up for Juanita Broaddrick. For she is someone so totally inconvenient for you to believe. But I think you do.
To this last part I gotta say - Girl ñ get a backbone! We are told over and over that you are a strong woman. Show us some proof. Show us who you are with your actions not just with your words. Because actions beat words hands down every time.
Do the right thing Mrs. Clinton. I know that for you it must be the most difficult thing to do. This occasion demands no lessor action of the good and the brave. In answering .. or not answering the question, Mrs. Clinton, you will tell us loud and clear who you are.
Ask your husband if it is true that he committed this violent hate crime, a felony in all 50 state. Experienced investigators interviewed Mrs. Broaddrick and believed her. Experts in the field of sex offender treatment believe her. United Sates congressman Christopher Shays believes her. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Americans believe her. Do not dishonor all them with any further silence on this issue.
Mrs. Clinton, if you donít believe Mrs. Broaddrick, you must tell us why! If you want the honor of representing in the United States Senate my beloved mother, my sister and a true heroic feminist if ever there was one, my young nephew - still learning the lessons of life that children learn simply by watching how adults like you, Mrs. Clinton and me behave, now and last but certainly not least - the millions of wonderful New Yorkers I am honored to be among today.
Mrs. Clinton, donít take us back to the day when women were believed only when they were perfect or only when they were convenient to believe.
Mrs. Clinton, let me be clear, I ask you a question today not about the consensual affair that your husband had with Monica Lewinsky. No kind fair minded person would think to invade the privacy of your marriage in such a way.
I ask only about the charge made by Juanita Broaddrick, that she was raped by your husband. I believe Juanita Broaddrick ñ do you? Rape is not a sin. Rape is not just a mistake. Rape is not just a difficulty in someoneís marriage. Any answer to the question "Do you believe Juanita Broaddrick?" that uses any of these terms to describe rape is unacceptable.
I ask you this one question, Mrs. Clinton not to be mean or cruel to you but to be a good person. I want to be a positive and active member of the larger village. I want to do right by the children of today who sadly, may be the rape victims of the future. I am trying to be a wise village member who hacks away at the roots of the problem of sexual violence while some may be only grasping at leaves. That means I must talk about the violent hate crime against women called rape, not just when it is easy. I must also do it when it is hard.
Mrs. Clinton, I think it is kind to Mrs. Broaddrick that people stand up and say what so many have been thinking all along ...
I believe Juanita ... Do You?
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Discussion and Questions
LYNNE CHENEY: Those defending Mrs. Clinton as a feminist heroine might be interested in a comment my daughter made when I told her I was moderating this panel. She said, “I think the people who want to defend Mrs. Clinton as a feminist heroine should be asked exactly which parts of her experience one should point to. What exactly has she done?” Then she quoted Peggy Noonan’s new book, “Mrs. Clinton is so famous, so celebrated for her accomplishments. She so quickly and eagerly refers to them. Yet when you look at the record, her reputation for accomplishment seems to be just another fiction.”
BURSTEIN: But if she gets elected to the Senate in her own right, that will be a wonderful signal to women who have been putting their energies and efforts into advancing their husband’s career that it’s not too late for them. And if Hillary has benefited from being Bill Clinton’s wife, well, George W. Bush has benefited from having a father who was President. The problem is you’re holding her to a higher standard.
INGRAHAM: Don’t you think we need some explanations from her about the events that completely gripped our country for two years? Her husband was impeached for lying under oath. People want to understand this. Was her marriage just a completely political bargain? Did she stick it out just to protect the political left wing? Did she know about Monica?
BURSTEIN: I think it’s outrageous of us to put ourselves in her place and imagine that she’s a fan of her husband, that she’s adopted every view he takes. Her choice is that she loves him, that she wants to stay married to him. Her reasons for that choice are none of your business.
CHENEY: What really drives me crazy is when Hillary acts like the happy wife. Walking hand in hand off the helicopter together at critical moments. It is just so distressing to me.
BURSTEIN: Passion and emotion and love are such confusing things in real life.
CHENEY: But hypocrisy is the thing that is most distressing.
BETTY FRIEDAN: As far as I’m concerned, Hillary Clinton and the President are good role models for the children of our country. They illustrate a marriage between equals. She was at the top of her law school class, he was in the middle of the same class.
She, through her intelligence and her efforts, helped advance his career. And now she’s moving on her own to run for the Senate in New York. This is a wonderful role model.
QUESTION: Nobody has brought up Juanita Broaddrick, and the fact that Bill Clinton has been plausibly accused of rape. Hillary Clinton has been alleged to have been complicit in helping to cover up not only that particular alleged abuse but all the other incidents that have gone on through this man’s career. Surely this is something that needs to be discussed when the subject of Mrs. Clinton’s feminism is raised.
BURSTEIN: I don’t believe Juanita Broaddrick’s is a credible story. Now maybe I’m wrong. But it’s very rare, in my experience, if something that awful happens, that there isn’t more to it.
So the answer to your question is simple: Hillary Clinton hasn’t done anything wrong by staying with a man she doesn’t know to have done the thing he’s accused of. If he did this thing, and she’s crazy, and I’m crazy, and everybody who thinks the story is made up is crazy, then we’ll be very sorry for ourselves one day.
FRIEDAN: Who’s Juanita Broaddrick? I’ve never heard of her.
FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER: You’ve never heard of her?
FRIEDAN: No.
FEMALE: She’s the woman Bill Clinton raped.
BURSTEIN: I don’t think that that has ever been proved.
FRIEDAN: He raped her in the White House?
[crosstalk]
CHENEY: I’m going to step in as moderator and ask Christina to comment on whether she thinks Hillary as a feminist has in any way been undermined by her unsympathetic attitude toward the women alleged to have been imposed upon by her husband.
SOMMERS: What I find interesting with Hillary is that she was very much part of a group that supported Anita Hill. She was at the ceremony where Anita Hill received an award, and she’s very much on her side. Then when the tables were turned, she completely flipped positions. I thought at the time of Anita Hill that it was impossible to know what went on, and I don’t think we know exactly what went on with Juanita Broaddrick. The problem is, both cases were “he said/she said.” Although it’s important to keep in mind that one involved an alleged rape, while Clarence Thomas was never accused of anything more than some ribald banter and tasteless jokes.
But feminists came down very hard on the side that “women don’t lie about these attacks.” They insisted that in any sexual harassment lawsuit a woman has the right to investigate a man’s entire sexual history. Hillary Clinton supported that view when it seemed like a convenient weapon to be wielded against enemies. And Bill Clinton signed that harassment bill. Then they were hoist on their own petard. What bothered me so much about watching the Paula Jones episode and its sequels is that feminists would sound so different when it was their guy, and their power, on trial.
QUESTION: The First Lady has traveled around the world and received, in many cases, a rapturous reception from women.
Do you think by virtue of the model that she presents and the message she’s brought that more or fewer women will be clerks in their Supreme Courts? More or fewer will be successful in their lives?
INGRAHAM: I think she’s irrelevant. Hillary’s message around the world is largely one of scattered clichés and government largesse. She basically wants more U.N. money for more programs, more family planning, and more talk about lifting women up.
I don’t see Hillary’s actions being ones that lift women up out of poverty. What solutions is Hillary Clinton going to give women who want to start a business? Who want to play a sport? Who want to stay married to their husbands and live a happy life? I think she’s largely been either a bad influence for women, or had no effect.
SOMMERS: I have admired some of Hillary’s work abroad. There are many parts of the world where women have not had their first wave of feminism, and I think she’s a very able carrier of basic equity feminism to other parts of the world.
But we don’t need a feminist revolution in the United States. Her agenda at home is divisive at a time where we need more unity.
Published in Where is She Going? July/August 2000
"As an advocate for children and families throughout my life, as a lawyer who occasionally represented victims of sexual assault and rape, as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, I know the difference that good information, good education, and good health care can make in empowering women and girls to make good decisions for themselves."
Maclean's
March 8, 1999
Rape and a President
by Andrew Phillips
Nick Auf der Maur, the late Montreal man-about-town and political gadfly, had a favourite line about the enduring popularity of the city's perennial mayor, Jean Drapeau. Montrealers, he used to say with a wondering shake of the head, would keep on re-electing Drapeau "even if he was caught at high noon with a greased goat in Dominion Square."
Drapeau, it turns out, had nothing on Bill Clinton. The mayor may have been a minor-league autocrat, but his public life was devoid of personal scandal. The President's private failings are all too familiar, and if the evidence of last week stands, there is just about nothing that will dent the American public's support for him. Something quite extraordinary happened, and the collective reaction was to shrug and look away. What happened was this: a perfectly credible, well-spoken woman with no evident political or financial motive went on national television and accused the President of the United States of raping her in the spring of 1978, when he was the young, on-the-make attorney general of Arkansas, campaigning to be governor. She didn't actually use the word "rape," so harsh and ugly, but that's what it was, if you believe her, so long ago in a hotel room in Little Rock. It wasn't an "inappropriate relationship," an "unwelcome sexual advance," or any of the other euphemisms that surround the Clinton presidency. It was rape.
The news media, after tiptoeing around the story for weeks, in some cases for years, finally reported the sordid details. The woman, known to investigators during the Lewinsky scandal as Jane Doe No. 5, is a 56-year-old nursing home owner in the town of Van Buren, Ark., named Juanita Broaddrick. Her story -- recounted to, among others, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times -- is straightforward. She says she met Clinton in April, 1978, when he came to campaign at one of her nursing homes. He invited her to see him at his headquarters in Little Rock. When she contacted him on April 28, he talked his way into her hotel room, then started kissing her.
Here's Broaddrick's account, in an emotional interview with NBC: "I first pushed him away and just told him no. . . . The second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting on my lip. . . . Then, he forces me down on the bed. I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him no. He just wouldn't listen to me. . . . He was such a different person at that moment; he was just a vicious, awful person." On his way out the door, she said, Clinton put on his sunglasses, turned and, indicating her swollen lips, said: "You better get some ice for that."
Why believe her? Why even report it? In the post-impeachment climate of scandal fatigue and "let's move on," why care? The mainstream American media has found it an excruciating story to deal with. The problems with it are obvious -- starting with the fact that Broaddrick never reported it to the police and waited 21 years before speaking out. Her husband and three of her friends say she told them about the incident at the time and they saw her bruised lips, but there is not hard evidence that Clinton was even at the hotel when she was there. His lawyers say flatly that the allegation is "absolutely false." And indeed, early last year after lawyers acting for Paula Jones sought her out in connection with their sexual harassment lawsuit against the President, Broaddrick signed an affidavit denying the "rumours and stories" about her and Clinton.
And yet . . . the story rings true. Why should anyone be surprised that a woman would keep quiet about such an incident -- especially two decades ago, before rape shield laws prevented defense lawyers from ripping apart her character in court, and especially when the man she was accusing was the state's chief law enforcement officer? Signing the affidavit is no surprise, either: she did not want to be forced into the open by Jones's lawyers. Other women, notably Monica Lewinsky, have denied having sex with Clinton, then acknowledged the truth.
It was only when investigators working for independent counsel Kenneth Starr knocked on her door that Broaddrick agreed to tell her story, knowing that the legal consequences of lying to a grand jury are enormous. Her allegation was part of the huge "document dump" that Starr sent to Congress last year. Republicans decided not to pursue it during the Lewinsky impeachment trial, but they did urge wavering congressmen to read about it in a secret room on Capitol Hill where classified documents were kept. About a dozen took the trouble; nine of them voted to impeach.
Broaddrick's charge is unproven and, at this point, unprovable. The striking thing last week was that as the usual roundtables of pundits dissected the story, almost everyone, except for a handful of last-bunker Clinton partisans, assumed it was true. Feminists, among his most ardent defenders during the Lewinsky saga, did not rush to his rescue. Patricia Ireland, head of the National Organization for Women, called Broaddrick's story "particularly compelling" and urged people to "take her charges seriously." Richard Cohen, a liberal columnist for The Washington Post and a Clinton sympathizer, wrote in amazement that the ability of Bill and Hillary Clinton to float above such charges is "staggering" -- "the Clintons play by no rules. They have vanquished outrage." Newsweek's sole comment on the rape charge was an astonishing throwaway line: "Sounds like our guy."
Sounds like our guy? That's it?Bill Clinton, it seems, has managed to change America's political culture more than anyone had ever imagined.
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