Posted on 01/06/2016 3:24:48 AM PST by billorites
Even though Donald Trump had already warned that Bill Clinton's past indiscretions would be "fair game" in the presidential race, the ex-president seemed surprised to face the issue as he began to take a prominent role in his wife's campaign.
Asked by ABC News if his past should be "fair game," Bill stammered for several seconds about how "the Republicans have to decide who they want to nominate" before declaring, "I think there's always attempts to take the election away from the people."
In other words - no real answer.
At a New Hampshire rally, Hillary dismissed a heckler who asked about previous sexual-assault claims against Bill by saying the questioner was "rude."
With far larger issues out there - jobs, terrorism, etc. - we'd rather the race not be dominated by talk of Bill's, uh, love life.
Yet Hillary Clinton has made "women's issues" central to her campaign. "I can't think of anything more of an outsider than electing the first woman president," she has said.
But today those issues very much include things like sexual assault and harassment, and how institutions should deal with such cases - major topics on college campuses right now.
So a campaign surrogate who also happens to be a former president impeached over his lying about an affair with a female subordinate will inevitably be "fair game" for the campaign trail.
As will asking about how one partner enables the other's misbehavior.
Indeed, it's shocking that neither Clinton seemed ready for questions on this front. You'd almost think they'd spent the last 16 years in deep denial.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The slimy Clintons answer:
“That’s old news”
Maybe Cosby can use that defense at his trial.
“..........You’d almost think they’d spent the last 16 years in deep denial.”......
They have and they want you to do likewise. Who ever gets the GOP nod had better hammer on this issue and HARD. Bringing Billy Bobs past is fair game.
Can anyone say Bill Cosby and double standard
What the hell does that even mean? She makes no sense -
she was a political wife, a Senator, a Sec of State but she thinks that just being a woman makes her different from other insiders? Libs are delusional - I thought they wanted
men/women equality? Only equal when it suits their agenda. She really needs to go away - No more Clintons (or Bushes!)
"Denial" is an unconscious psychological process. It is not just a fancy term for "denying."
The Clintons are not "in denial." They are just liars.
I can't stand how Clinton and Obama have run and continue to run on being "the first _______ president". I guess that is what the young voters are going after. The right needs to run on a campaign of, "the first president to expose bullsh!t". Why have we not exposed the POS so-called budget for what is really in it.
The Clintons are, after all, members of the political elite. Rules - and standards of decency - don't apply to them.
No they’re not. They figure they’ll just go away. Hillary stepped in it big time. Now and way back when she attacked those women.
I can’t understand why no one has published pics of Bill in the past year or 2 with another woman. National Enq.? Daily Mail?
There must be several women
I think there's one episode of South Park that best explains what young people might perceive. It's the South Park episode with Rod Stewart head lining Jesus’ Millennium Party Extravaganza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9H34SWkCPA
I don’t think it is exactly denial. They don’t consider their behavior to be abnormal. It is power to them for them to behave with such lawlessness.
June 26, 2003
[a few excerpts from article...]
Kelsey recalls Broaddrick saying the meeting with Clinton began with small talk, and "she was a little surprised he was by himself."
"She said he was showing her locations outside the window there in Little Rock, and then, all of a sudden, he just kind of grabbed her and started kissing her," remembers Kelsey.
"He overtook her and pushed her to the bed, and from that point on it was just a rape."
Kelsey says Broaddrick explained how her lip became swollen: "He bit her lip to try to keep her from struggling with him.
By Daniel J. Harris Although the White House has successfully intimidated NBC News into deep sixing an explosive interview with an Arkansas woman who says Bill Clinton raped her 20 years ago, Capitol Hill Blue has confirmed that the charge is but one of many allegations of sexual assault by the President. A five month investigation into the President's questionable sexual history reveal incidents that go back as far as Clinton's college days, with more than a dozen women claiming his sexual appetites leave little room for the word ''no.'' Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas woman who worked on Bill Clinton's campaign when he was attorney general, told NBC's Lisa Meyers two weeks ago she was raped by Clinton. NBC, under intense pressure by the White House, shelved the interview. The White House also threatened Fox News Tuesday after it reported the story. But Broaddrick's story is only one account of many sexual assaults by Clinton. Among the other incidents:
In an interview with Capitol Hill Blue this week, the retired State Department employee said he believed the story of the young English woman who said Clinton raped her in 1969. ''There was no doubt in my mind that this young woman had suffered severe emotional trauma,'' he said. ''But we were under tremendous pressure to avoid the embarrassment of having a Rhodes Scholar charged with rape. I filed a report with my superiors and that was the last I heard of it.'' Capitol Hill Blue also spoke with the former Washington fundraiser who confirmed the incident, but said she would not go public because anyone who does so is destroyed by the Clinton White House. ''My husband and children deserve better than that,'' she said. The other encounters were confirmed with more than 30 interviews with retired Arkansas state employees, former state troopers and former Yale and University of Arkansas students. Like others, they refused to go public because of fears of retaliation from the Clinton White House. Likewise, the mainstream media has shied away from the Broaddrick story. Only The Drudge Report and other Internet news sites have actively pursued it. The White House did not return calls for comment Tuesday night.
& Teresa Hampton
Capitol Hill Blue
The Clinton’s and the Democrats in general are accustomed to getting a pass not only from the press but from decorum obsessed Republicans. Even an otherwise kidney punching fighter like Nixon refrained from challenging the stolen 1960 election for fear of damaging our precious democracy by exposing the Kennedy-Johnson Mafia backed corruption machine. The Bush’s in particular would never bring up their adopted cousin Billy’s indiscretions (rapes). But coming out of the real world of New York business Trump isn’t going to shy away from kicking his opponents in the nuts to win.
then there is the impeachment.
I assume this historical stain is waiting next year for relevation
Bubba is the only president to be impeached that was not a southern sympathizer hated by the vindictive winners of the war between the states
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