Posted on 07/13/2007 8:59:09 PM PDT by doug from upland
Edited on 07/13/2007 11:57:49 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
HERE'S THE NEW YORK TIMES STORY. Gee, no mention of the confrontation.. Here is the WMUR story.
How is it that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the smartest woman in the world, does not know who Juanita Broaddrick is?
Earlier today I spoke with Katherine Prudhomme O'Brien, our own KPfromDerryNH. I knew she was heading for a showdown with Hillary today and didn't know if they would even let her into the event. She became somewhat famous for challenging Al Gore at a townhall meeting in New Hampshire in late 1999. Kath asked Gore if she believed Juanita Broaddrick, and Gore claimed he knew nothing about the story.
In 2000, I worked with her to plan a rally in New York. The great New York FReepers really got involved with the event. Kath spoke about being a rape survivor like Juanita, and after a poignant speech, she delivered a video copy of the Lisa Myers interview with Broaddrick to Hillary headquarters.
Hillary, if you are such a great defender of women, Help bring this rapist to justice. Maybe you can also explain how a trafficker of women made many visits to your White House, spent two days in the residence quarters, and laundered 645K to the DNC through Charlie Trie.
I spoke with Katherine at about 9:45pm, Eastern. She spoke with great emotion, and the day had been very draining for her. She was going to try to write it up tonight, but I guess it is getting too late. She confronted Hillary face to face, asking her if she believed Juanita Broaddrick. When Hillary said she didn't know about Broaddrick, Kath explained that she was the woman who accused Bill Clinton of rape. Hillary's handlers or Secret Service demanded that she leave and threatened her with arrest. That is the short version.
When Kath's full story gets to me, I'll ask the Admin Mod to add it here.
OKAY, HERE IS HER STORY. Admin Mod, can you put it up at the end of the original post?
Today I Met Hillary in Nashua, N.H. also known as “The Gate City”
by Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien
Today, Friday the 13th of July was my lucky day. I went to Daniel Webster College to meet Hillary Clinton.
I knew that the chance of that really happening would be slim. I arrived a little late but just in time for the program, that had been billed in the paper as free and open to the public to begin. I had called Hillary headquarters for tickets a few days prior. A friendly staffer told me that my tickets would be at the door and that there would be a 1/2 to 3/4 hour question time after her talk.
“Great”, I thought to myself, that will be a good time to see how open and free it really is. I’ve seen pre selected questions before and I loathe that process, it’s a sham.
When I got there, they did not ask my name or anything. It was fantastic that they gave out water bottles. I found the crowd of about a couple hundred strong to be a bit anemic in their overall vibe.
People were pleasant but not wicked thrilled to be there. I thought it would be a much different feel. Bill Clinton spoke for a bit, then Hillary spoke. I don’t care what any of her enemies say, the truth is she is looking better than ever now. Hats off to her hair, make up and style people. I hoped my luck would hold and she really would take random questions.
Throughout her speech, she made some points I agreed with, such as let’s treat our returning veterans better and interest rates on student loans should be as low as they can possibly be. Amen.
When she was done talking music started. Not looking good for that question asking session I dared to hope for...
I went up to the group heading towards the stage to meet her or her husband. It gets cozy fast in those crowds. There was a lady next to me, wearing a tee shirt that declared her as a health care voter, who had two canes she used. I tried to help her squeeze in a bit and half joked with her to whack the folks pushing in front of her with one of her canes. The poor lady might have fallen over if she did. For goodness sakes-can’t Hillary get staffers to watch out for and help those folks. Just a little free advice. Get them all up front, life is hard enough for them. The lady gave up and left.
I was not too far from the former President so I called out to him but he didn’t see me. Hillary came up next and I held out an old light green colored postcard towards her as others were holding tickets, baseballs and stuff like that.
She took my postcard, signed it and asked “Whose is this?” I said it was mine and asked her if she believed Juanita Broaddrick. “Who is that?” she asked.
I replied “The woman who said she was raped by Bill Clinton in 1978.”
“I don’t know anything about that” Ms. Rodham Clinton said, still holding my card
“I sent you a videotape of the interview she gave to Dateline NBC and I’m sure you have received it, I sent it by certified mail and that’s the receipt showing your office got it that your holding.”
At some point around this time someone behind her asked my name so I told them what it was.
She gave the receipt back to me.
I asked her again if she believed Juanita Broaddrick.
“I don’t know what your talking about.” she then started going back towards the direction she had come from, away from her husband.
I had to yell so she would hear me over the music as I asserted “That’s not true!” and went on to ask her “Why are you doing this? You’ve always been so good to rape survivors.”
I was thinking about how she started Arkansas’ first rape crisis hotline and helped start its first rape crisis center. I would have loved her way back then for that.
The people around me suddenly discovered they did not like me and began making vehement requests to have someone get me out of there.
A well groomed, handsome man in a suit with one of those clear, curly wires in his ear, a Secret Service agent perhaps, grabbed both my arms above the elbow and began pushing me backwards and telling me I had to leave.
So I did. Well, I began to.
An enthusiastic, yet clueless young campaign worker invited me to take a sign up card thing so I could get campaign updates.
I declined her offer by muttering a swear phrase that encourages people to go have fun with themselves but I don’t think she heard me.
As I passed the media stage I thought I’d at least talk to some media folks and tell them my side of the story. I had printed it up on a sheet of paper I could give them.
About four guys in suits with wires in their ears were joined by an equal number of Nashua Police officers who told me I couldn’t do that. So I began to leave again..
All eight of them were kind enough to escort me toward the gate. Who says chivalry is dead?
As officers of the law, I will obey them but I couldn’t see why I was such a threat. I’m 130 or so pounds soaking wet, I was wearing a dress and heels and so upset and humiliated I’m was trying hard not to cry and not always being successful.
This was a very hard thing for me to do. I try to be polite but I also know that I must be bold and assertive as well to get the answers I want. I know my intentions are pure and this gives me confidence. At that moment, knowing my intentions were honorable, this caused me to be very angry too. I declared that the event was a sham. To me it was. If a candidate wants to earn the right of having said they were vetted by the tough, hard question asking New Hampshire citizenry, then I respond that she must earn that right. Hillary is not doing that, walking away from tough questions and not being brave enough to take random ones that a whole crowd can hear. Does she think were stupid?
As we all walked on, I was struck by the irony of what the Nashua Police were doing. I asked them how they could square what they were doing to me with what they do all day long for work, fight crime and have to kick me out when all I did was ask a tough question. I asked them how they could sleep at night.
I told them I was a polite person, I never did anything wrong. I wanted to say I’d been a Girl Scout Leader and all I ever do in life is take care of other people. I’m even doing laundry right now as I write this.
One of the men asked me what I asked about. I told them I asked about Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who said she was raped by Bill Clinton and that I couldn’t figure out why Hillary would have ever cared about 18 minutes of blank tape during the Watergate scandal but never wanted to know where her husband was on April 25, 1978, a date he will not account for and the date Broaddrick says the rape happened.
I pointedly asked one of the officers that a man running for governor would have those records, an Attorney General would have those records, right?
They world be someplace, right? No answer, I wasn’t expecting one anyway.
We got to the road and that’s when it got really weird. One of then asked me where I was parked. I pointed towards my car near the airport. Another asked me if I was ok to drive.
“What!?, yes I can drive, I’m fine to drive!” He must have thought I was nuts or he deals with so many drunks this is an automatic question..
I began to walk towards my car, I wanted to get out of there so bad.
An officer started talking about the fence, the gate or whatever but I tried to tell him “OK OK, I’m leaving, I’m leaving” but he kept trying to tell me about the gate.
I could not disobey the officer who was trying to make me listen to what he had to say so I had to walk back to him.
I said “Yes, sir yes, sir, I’m listening, I’m listening.” That’s when he told me that on the other side of the gate was state property. After I crossed over it, if I were to come back I would be arrested.
I was shocked, I’ve never even gotten a speeding ticket in my life. I said stuff like “What!?, I’ll be arrested!?”
“Why,why would you arrest me? What did I do?”and “I can’t believe this, why?”
He only said the same thing over again but this time with an emphatic “Mamn” at the beginning of his sentence.
I thought about walking to the fence as fast as a snail or coming back over just 1 inch to find out why I’d be arrested.
But that would be a high price to pay just to find out and I had to get to my job. How do you call in to get someone to cover for you because you got arrested ? I don’t want to find out. Well, my story ends there and my washing machine just stopped...
No we wouldn't.
Bump for later.
***Thank God this woman will never be president.***
Personally, I’m not so sure of that. The Clintons are in this to win. They both want that power, and I would bet my life’s savings that they know exactly *how* they will win, and have long ago *ensured* this scenario.
Does she think we're stupid?
Yes, she thinks we're all stupid.
Today, Friday the 13th of July was my lucky day. I went to Daniel Webster College to meet Hillary Clinton....
She knows we know everything. She is counting on enough people remaining unaware and being led by the MSM spin. She is counting on 5 million young women voters who might not otherwise vote. We have to introduce the real Hillary to those women.
ALL candidates want to get away from these kinds of questions. Mostly they come up with polite shut-em-up responses, like the first President Bush when he was asked about an affair. He said the classic “I will not dignify this with an answer,” and that was that.
Our goal as FReepers is to keep the Clintons out of the office of the presidency. There are so many questions with which Hillary needs to be confronted on the campaign trail. I do not think she will ever, ever respond to them at her public appearances.
We need to remember what the Swift Boat Vets did. They got the facts and the questions out there, with our monetary help. The commercials spoke for themselves, and the book explained absolutely enough reasonable doubt that Kerry was fit to be President, even for people of his own party.
This is what the strategy needs to be once Hillary is nominated. Very classy editors and very above-board writers need to formulate ads that ask the questions. I don’t know if Juanita is up for doing an ad herself, but that would speak volumes. I am hoping there are people out there with real evidence against the Clintons who are waiting, like the Swift Boat Vets did, to see whether Hillary will win the primary, and who feel it is their duty, at great personal risk, to step out into the spotlight and protect the country.
We need to have on film Juanita and Kathleen’s attempt to confront Hillary. They need to ask Hillary to get her husband to admit what he did and make a public apology. There is a YouTube for you.
What FReeper is anywhere between Arkansas and Virginia (I think that’s where Kathleen is) who has a good camera and wants to do the video. You could become famous. Or, you could end up in Ft. ........ well, never mind that thought. I don’t want to discourage you.
Exactly. Hillery-Rotten is an imperious reptile, with a cold stone where a heart ought to be. If we don't manage to keep her out of the WH, then God help us all.
[Apologies to real reptiles everywhere.]
Also, President Bush has addressed the issues you mentioned in the past. Hillary has not addressed the Broaddrick issue, and it DOES apply to her because she was a so-called champion of women for years, yet now she acts as if she doesn't even know who Juanita Broddrick is or what her claim is. Hillary lives in two Americas-- one supports liberal rape survivors and the other detests conservative rape survivors.
And these are just the victims we KNOW about.
Two reporters had guts in this matter. Lisa Myers and Sam Donaldson.
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JOSEPH FARRAH
Rape? See my attorney
How does Bill Clinton explain his problems? Somebody upstairs just doesn’t like him, he explained at his latest press conference.
His explanation came in response to a question from Sarah McClendon, the biggest nut in the White House press corps. She asked, and I quote: “Sir, will you tell us why you think the people have been so mean to you? Is it a conspiracy? Is it a plan? They have treated you worse than they treated Abe Lincoln!”
McClendon may have first-hand knowledge. It seems like she’s been around the White House long enough to recall what kind of treatment old Honest Abe received. Here’s how Clinton answered:
“You know, one of my favorite jokes — you know, that story about the guy that is walking along the Grand Canyon, and he falls off? And he is falling hundreds of feet to certain death and he reaches out. He sees a little twig on the side of the canyon and he ... grabs it. He takes a ... deep breath, and then all of a sudden he sees the roots of the twig start to come loose. And he looks up in the sky, and he said, ‘Lord, why me? Why me? I pay my taxes, I go to work every day; why me? And this thunderous voice says: ‘Son, there is just something about you I don’t like.’”
It was that question and that not-very-funny response that set the stage at last Friday’s press conference for Sam Donaldson’s grilling about Juanita Broaddrick’s rape charge against the president.
“Mr. President, when Juanita Broaddrick leveled her charges against you of rape in a nationally televised interview, your attorney, David Kendall, issued a statement denying them. But shouldn’t you speak directly on this matter and reassure the public? And if they are not true, can you tell us what your relationship with Mrs. Broaddrick was, if any?”
Clinton responded: “Well, five weeks ago today, five weeks ago today, I stood in the Rose Garden after the Senate voted, and I told you that I thought I owed it to the American people to give them 100 percent of my time and to focus on their business, and that I would leave it to others to decide whether they would follow that lead. And that is why I have decided, as soon as that vote was over, that I would allow all future questions to be answered by my attorneys. And I think the American people do understand it and support it, and I think it was the right decision.”
Donaldson: “Can you not simply deny it, sir?”
Clinton: “There’s been a statement made by my attorney. He speaks for me, and I think he spoke quite clearly.”
And that’s how Clinton dealt with the only rape charge ever leveled against a sitting U.S. president. Maybe it’s time to review Kendall’s “clear” response to Broaddrick’s charge.
“Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false.”
Is that clear enough for you?
Actually, it’s not even a straightforward denial. Instead, it is more legalistic parsing of words.
Why did Kendall use the word “any” when the question on the table is about one very specific allegation? The fifth word of the statement — “president” — is also noteworthy. Of course, no one, including Mrs. Broaddrick, suggests Bill Clinton was president at the time of the assault. And no one suggests the president at the time of the crime, Jimmy Carter, was responsible for the attack. Notice that Kendall’s statement refers to the victim as Mrs. Broaddrick. Of course, in 1978, when she was raped in a hotel room, her name was not Mrs. Broaddrick. So here’s another possible lawyerly hairsplitting technicality.
So, the question remains, why won’t Clinton address this important allegation?
The answer is: Because the White House press corps and Congress won’t force him to answer it. They have let him off the hook. Clinton beat the rap on perjury and obstruction of justice, so he won’t be held accountable for rape.
Can you live with that America? And, under the circumstances, can you trust this man to deal honestly and forthrightly with bigger, national-security issues such as the theft of nuclear secrets by the Chinese?
I had a report that I thought was credible regarding an assault Bill made as governor. I was told that he had a trooper deliver a note of apology to the woman. I’ve never been able to track that down.
I believe Bill Clinton is a classical sexual predator. Like all predators, he can sense weakness in his intended 'meal' or victim. In Katherine Willey's case, her whole life was imploding due to bad financial decisions made by her husband.
Juanita Broaddrick, there was pending legislation which would have greatly affect her businesses. I would suspect that in every allegation, research would show the victim was in some kind of difficulty, either financially or emotionally.
As to Monica Lewinsky? She was available, easy .... does a hunting lion pass up a cripple on the edge of a herd?
As to what makes a predator like WJC?
Don't need to waste the bandwidth, but I suspect his whole life in politics is a mechanism to gain approval. The reward; gaining power over venerable women.
But he is fighting an internal demon that will never rest.
While he was attorney general and thinking about running as governor, Bill was at dinner with some of his associates, one of whom I know. How typical is this? He said (paraphrasing) — Just think how many women I can get as govenor.
Yep. Exactly right.
And we have to be careful because as Katherine learned, she's "taking names."
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