I’m going to have to bookmark this great John Oliver episode. I’ve cued it up at the beginning of the “WhatAboutism” section.
And the really, really key super important thing is only one side is going whole hog in on these things. Others try to do it and it gets ignored and laughed off.
I agree that Bill Clinton should have been impeached for perjury AND a sexual relationship with an intern that would have gotten any CEO in the country fired. That being said, I don’t see what the big OMG is about this story. He was a known liar and still got elected. He lied in court and was acquitted by the Senate. He lied to the US public and was forgiven. So what new is added by this story?
broke yesterday? This has been old news for years. When Clinton was asked about it after he left office, he said that it didn’t particularly bother him because if the times had required even the remote possibility (remember this happened in the late 90s when we were enthusiastically cooperating with the former USSR to buy their old plutonium off them and building the ISS together, and China was rapidly going all capitalist on the entire world) of his needing the authentication card, he would have simply gotten a new one anyway.
Yes, he should have had the card, but other things were occupying his time and it wasn’t important. HE wasn’t worried about the size of his button.
I was responding rhetorically, as I assumed your post was made with tongue-in-cheek. Impeaching a former President seems like a lost cause as would passing sentence on him.
As of right now, William Jefferson Clinton could run for any elected office he wants, or be appointed to any non-elected office, other than President or Vice-President. If he were impeached (again) and found guilty, he could, in principle, be barred from doing so.