Posted on 10/02/2006 6:17:26 AM PDT by libstripper
If there were an Academy Award for Hypocrisy, the surefire favorite for 2006 would be the Democratic Party. Just two recent items make the decision a virtual certainty:
The Representative Foley "scandal" is really worthy of a whole book on hypocrisy. On the one hand, we have a poor misguided Republican man who had a romantic thing for young boys. He sent them suggestive e-mail. I agree, that's not great. On the other hand, we have a Democratic party that worships ( not likes, WORSHIPS ) a man named Bill Clinton who did not send suggestive e-mails as far as we know, but who had a barely legal intern give him oral sex kneeling under his desk in the Oval Office while he talked on the phone to a Congressional Committee Chairman, took great pleasure in putting a cigar in her orifice and then smelling it and tasting it, and having her fellate him when in the sacred seat of power of the world's leading Republic.
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It's not harassment if they were the only two employees in the office. If there's more than two, it's sexual harassment...of other employees. It creates a hostile environment.
Many thanks for the ping. :-)
Very pretty scenes at the top devolve.
gotta keep the brains working overtime in all directions!
Well, you got my attention! :-)
You left out Garry Studds, the Dem Congressman from Mass. who had sexual relations with a 17 yr. old [I believe a male] page.
Thanks for the ping!
Those are claims, but where are the convictions?
I'm sorry - I don't condone much of what Clinton did; but you're tossing allegations without proof. If those things had actually happened, he would have been convicted of them. Do you honestly think Ken Starr would have let those sleeping dogs lie? After tens of millions of dollars of investigation costs??
I'll repeat myself - I personally will wait until the smoke clears and the facts become visible in this Foley matter.
But I fail to see how trying to equate this to old news that never amounted to anything (or was a matter between consenting adults) will help us.
Thanks for the ping. Ben Stein is the best. Once again he nails it.
Perfect!
The Clinton legacy.
The original Paula Jones incident started when Clinton groped her, a fact that wasn't effectively denied in the sexual harassment case, the only case Jones could file at the time because the statute of limitations on a sexual assault case had run.
Kathleen Willey was threatened by various thugs operating on behalf of the Bent One after she'd made her charges, something that wouldn't have happened if the charges were false.
If those things had actually happened, he would have been convicted of them. Do you honestly think Ken Starr would have let those sleeping dogs lie? After tens of millions of dollars of investigation costs??
What planet have you been living on? The Clintons, as documented by Dick Morris, their former chief political advisor, have run one of the most brutal and effective private secret police operations in the country, directing it particularly at people like Broaddrick, Jones, and Willey. IIRC, Starr's authority did not extend to investigating sexual assault and rape chargers; his responsibility was to investigate whether Clinton had perjured himself and obstructed justice in the Paula Jones case. The Broaddrick charges were part of the file but were never actually investigated as part of the case.
But I fail to see how trying to equate this to old news that never amounted to anything (or was a matter between consenting adults) will help us.
Rape and sexual assault do not involve consent and they amount to a great deal precisely because the Clintons and their DemonRat enablers did their best to suppress the charges and smear the women who were involved. This starkly contrasts with the Foley case when the Republican leadership moved immediately and removed him as soon as they knew about the salacious instant messages.
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