John Kerry shouldn’t be there either.
shrug I prefer to be consistent in my attitude towards misbehavior. I don’t excuse it if it’s politically expedient. That’s supposedly what only Republicans do.
Why would you need proof? Trump proudly recounted hundreds, if not thousands, of instances that he committed sexual assault. He has cheated on all three wives and bragged about the hundreds of married women he slept with. And you consider him the better man.
I feel that Bill Clinton was probably the best president in my lifetime. That being said, I could never in good conscience vote for him. Starting with his “I didn’t inhale” and the cocky smirk, I realized that I couldn’t vote for a man I didn’t trust. I voted for Perot in '92 and stayed home in '96. If anyone is looking to Bill Clinton for moral character, they haven’t been paying attention. You want to see Bill because he gives a helluva speech, can still charge up a crowd, and had the chutzpa to argue the meaning of the word “Is”.
I watched his pre-recorded speech which lacked the excitement of his usual performance. It was pretty safe and he was able to goad Orange Julius Caesar, which is really the only point of having him there. It was short and he was still good. I have no misgivings about having Hillary go on either. She ran a lousy campaign and lacked her husband’s charisma, but she did nothing to deserve the smear campaign that was heaped on her for twenty-plus years prior to the 2016 election. If nothing else, she should stand as a lesson against complacency and apathy.
Have read recent interviews of Lewinsky?
Can you link to any of it?
This is from 2018
According to that, she still maintains that it was consensual though she blames Clinton for not resisting.
“There are even some people who feel my White House experiences don’t have a place in this movement, as what transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognise that it constituted a gross abuse of power.”
That she initiated.
Poor little seduced Mr. President. Gimme a break. She may have thrown the bait out there, but with Clinton, that was like telling the wolf it was feeding time.
In today’s environment any C-suite officer of a public company that did what Clinton did would be dismissed summarily by the board.
Before this gets too far. I know Bill, have done business with him in the past, and as a President, he was one of our better moderate Potus’s. But as a person, he’s gregarious, fun to be around, but I wouldn’t let any young woman that I care about come near him.
But she still threw the bait and she was not under pressure of losing her job. If she hadn’t made the first move, it was likely he would never have known who she was.
Clinton didn’t get off scot free, he was almost successfully impeached and he was disbarred.
Not sure I’ve ever seen an ex-President use their law license once they left the White House and he was impeached but never in danger of being convicted by the Senate.
He’s lying scum. She’s lying scum. Was she at the DNC? If not then leave her out of it.
Bill Clinton didn’t really give good speeches, he has a horrible voice, the only speeches of his I even remember are the one when he nominated Dukakis in 88 where they had to get the hook out and the crowd cheered when he said “In conclusion…” and the one where he accepted the nomination in 92 and all I remember about that is that the best part was the “A Place Called Hope” video that went right before and then he walked out, that was great staging.
That was no great speech, all I thought afterwards was that he did what he had to.
What Clinton was actually good at was explaining, or as it’s now known, mansplaining. So he would say “we could do it their way” and then say “but this is what will happen,” followed by “or we could do it our way” and say why that would be better.
“In the magazine piece, Ms Lewinsky, now 44, says she stands by her 2014 comments that their relationship was consensual,…”
consensual Get it?
Not in my lifetime. But, a la Taft, Clinton, as a young ex-president, who had taught constitutional law, apparently had hoped to go to the Supreme Court. He lost that chance.
And we wound up with Thomas and Kavanaugh.
Nope, you dont even have to be a lawyer to be on SCOTUS.
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