Wednesday, January 29, 2014

In a world of decency, we would let this story die for Monica's sake.

Republicans try to solve their War on Women problem by attacking Hillary over Lewinsky affair (Click on this heading to read more)

Republicans have a new talking point against Hillary Clinton's potential presidential candidacy, and boy is it a doozy. Apparently, because Clinton's husband had an affair with a White House intern close to 20 years ago, she now cannot point out that Republicans embrace a variety of viciously anti-woman policies.
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First up, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, himself a 2016 hopeful, was asked on Meet the Press if he thinks Bill Clinton's inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky would be fair game in a campaign against Hillary Clinton. After 174 words, Paul got around to saying "Now, it's not Hillary's fault." But first, he opened with:
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    Well, you know, I mean, the Democrats, one of their big issues is they have concocted and said Republicans are committing a war on women.  One of the workplace laws and rules that I think are good is that bosses shouldn't prey on young interns in their office.

    And I think really the media seems to have given President Clinton a pass on this.  He took advantage of a girl that was 20 years old and an intern in his office.

Bill Clinton's actions were wrong! No one is defending them. That was also in 1995 and 1996. It is now 2014 and he is not a candidate for office. But that didn't stop Joe Scarborough, who as a member of the House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton in 1998, from taking up the argument. Calling it "an ugly chapter in our history," Scarborough compared it to the Iraq War-leaving out the part where more than 4,000 U.S. troops and more than 100,000 Iraqis died in the Iraq War, of course-and suggested that we should "let them go." But then he continued, "That said ..."

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