Bill Clintons reckless sexual behavior was a threat to American national security.
Clinton and his supporters have been very effective in persuading large numbers of Americans that the Lewinsky scandal was only about sex. But I see a bigger issue here, because Clinton is on record as saying that he would have done anything to keep knowledge of the Lewinsky affair from becoming public.
To me, that statement raises a very serious question: What if, instead of sending her recorded Lewinsky conversations to Ken Starr, Linda Tripp had instead secretly offered them for sale, say, to the Chinese government? Or to the Russians? Or even to agents of Saddam?
What kind of blackmail leverage would those tapes have provided to a foreign government in dealing with America on sensitive trade, security or military issues? One of the few things Clinton ever said that I believe is that he would have done anything to keep the Lewinsky affair secret. Given his demonstrated track record of selling out American interests for personal or political gain (and there are more examples that I could have cited here), how far would he have gone in compromising Americas real interests in order to protect his own neck when threatened with blackmail?
Pretty far, I believe. Equally distressing is the prospect Clinton might, in fact, have succumbed to foreign black mail on other occasions in order to hide different sexual episodes that ultimately did not become public. There is no way to know, of course, but I prefer presidents for whom such a scenario is not a plausible possibility.
Reckless and stupid.
I was talking to my sweetie on the phone tonight. I also “met” him online, but not how Weiner met people. I had him “unbanned” from a sports message board after he went off over his team’s manager. Perfectly innocent. Nothing dirty. We knew each other more than 6 months before I ever heard his voice via a Valentine’s Day phone call. No pictures of anyone or their “junk.” The first time I ever laid eyes on him was at the airport.
There is such an “ick” factor here, that it’s hard to put into words. I think Rep. Weiner has some genuine psychological problems. My brain cannot process the notion of such an odd, vulgar thing that would possess a public & known person to photograph their junk and send it to a female. I just can’t. I refuse to read the transcripts posted online; I have standards.
He needs help & I hope he gets it.
OH SH1T !!! moment
he realized he'd just sent that pic to ALL of his twitter followers.
ha ha ha ha ... it's a beautiful thing.
a pervert is a pervert and a sleaze bag is a sleazebag. the democrat’s efforts to retein perverts and sleaze bags tells us a lot about the party, who they are and what they hold dear.
Bill Clinton just has HOM - Horny Old Man Disease.