(Hillary) Clinton Fights To Keep Impeachment Taboo

Washington Post ^ | 2-25-2007 | Anne E Kornblut

[blam]

Clinton Fights to Keep Impeachment Taboo

After Spat, Campaigns Know to Expect Swift Reprisal for Any Hint of the Scandal

By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 25, 2007

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband.

With a swift response to attacks from a former supporter last week, advisers to the New York Democrat offered a glimpse of their strategy for handling one of the most awkward chapters of her biography. They declared her husband's impeachment in 1998 -- or, more accurately, the embarrassing personal behavior that led to it -- taboo, putting her rivals on notice and all but daring other Democrats to mention the ordeal again.

Hillary Clinton was at her most popular when her husband's dalliance with an intern was publicly revealed. (1998 Photo By Robert Reeder -- The Washington Post)

"In the end, voters will decide what's off-limits, but I can't imagine that the public will reward the politics of personal destruction," senior Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Friday, when asked whether the impeachment is fair game for Clinton's opponents. Earlier in the week, Wolfson dismissed references to President Bill Clinton's conduct as "under the belt."

But the reality, of course, is that the impeachment was conducted very much in public.

[nomodem]

an impeached rapist at that.

You mean an impeached disbarred rapist. If he wasn't even ethical enough to remain as a lawyer, why was he ethical enough to remain as president?

[RunningWolf]

It was the ethics/sarc> of the Senate that kept him in office.

[Sawdring]

Didn't you hear about the new tone? We shouldn't bring anything out of the closet that might open another's eyes.

[Velveeta]

Hey Hillary: If you knew then what you know now....
Would you have married Bill Clinton?????

[freekitty]

This woman is blanking crazy.

[freekitty]

This woman is blanking crazy.

[sport]

is someone going to start talking about what is really wrong with HER?


14 posted on 02/25/2007 3:58:13 PM PST by Williams

As far as the main stream media is concerned, no.

[sport]

Bump

[sport]

Do those people who apparently live in fear that Hillary will do something bad to them, not realize that is the very thing that needs to be exposed?

Ask Vince Foster and James McDougaland others to numerous to list if you can get them to talk to you. There is only problem. They are all dead. The problem the people who wish to expose Hillary's dirty deeds is that the main stream media will not cover them. Then they have "accidents" or committ suicide.

[stylecouncilor]

Wolfson dismissed references to President Bill Clinton's conduct as "under the belt."
A truer statement has never been uttered. lol.

[sport]

Fools and idiots voting.

[potlatch]

[honolulugal]

Excellent!

[potlatch]

Thank you!

[Fred]

co-presidency?
co-impeachment?

[Fred]

It's going to be kind of difficult to keep Monica, Etc. quiet, given that, by a beautiful stroke of timing, next January will be the 10th Anniversary of everything breaking - so there will be a lot of talk about it, right in the middle of her campaign, whether Hillary likes it or not.

ARKANACIDE ANYONE????

[ntnychik]

Great post!
Lest we forget.

[Arrowhead1952]

"Ross Perot was the only reason the impeached was elected TWICE."

Whatever happened to him? Is he dead (yet)?

I don't know for sure. I haven't heard that he died, but who knows.