"Given that the Chinese have been abusing human rights since long before her husband abused female staff, one wonders why she was coy on the subject between 1993 and 2001 when her husband was President. "
Donal Blaney on Hillary Clinton's call for President Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics
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Perhaps not wishing to attract rejoinders about what white settlers in the United States did to the American Indians?
errmmm...every little helps?
Hillary under fire in Bosnia? errrmmm no
Hillary says pregnant woman dies in hospital because of no health insurance? errrmmm no.
Mark Penn promoting a Colombia-U.S. free trade deal? doh.
Let's face it - Hillary has lost. Obama is the next President of the USA. It can't come soon enough either! Go Obama.
This is one of the few times I disagree with Donal. The member of staff we are talking about was of legal age, and what she did, she did of her own free will as an adult.
By her own account, she stayed very late and walked past the open door of the Oval Office many times until she finally got the President's attention. When he invited her in for a chat, she told him she was wearing a thong.
Bill Clinton is an idiot, but I wouldn't say he abused "that woman ... Ms Lewinsky".
"Go Obama."
Yes, away, far away, please.
One thing we don't need is the most liberal senator as President, especially with congress run by the likes of Pelosi & Reid.
It'd be enough to make one nostalgic for the awful Carter years.
verity said...
"This is one of the few times I disagree with Donal. The member of staff we are talking about was of legal age, and what she did, she did of her own free will as an adult."
Donal Blaney doesn't mention Lewinsky specifically. Don't forget that there accusations involving other female staff.
verity said...
"she told him she was wearing a thong.
Bill Clinton is an idiot, but I wouldn't say he abused "that woman ... Ms Lewinsky"."
But the reference may not be to the yummy Monica. Suspect it actually refers to his time as a Governor.
8:55 and 10:14 - You are right, but his female staff were all adults - Gennifer Flowers was around 28 or 30 at the time - and you have to face the fact that there are power groupies as well as rock groupies.
Having been bonked by the governor/president and catching his eye across the room in public and sharing your little secret is a thrill. Monica was also a power groupie. The women weren't dragged screaming from their computers. They wore tight mini-skirts and tight t-shirts and hung around and hung around and hung around until they caught Clinton's eye.
So Donal, I am sorry to say, doesn't know much about the psychology of young women who seek out powerful men. Hillary Clinton knows it only too well.
Jimmuh Cahduh if my all-time American president hate figure, but Bill Clinton is next. He was/is a sleazebucket. But trust me, he didn't "abuse" any of those women who threw themselves in his path, aware of his weakness.
The Lewinsky mess was in fact a godsend to Clinton, it wiped everything else off the front pages. Examples:
Sale/transfer of missile tech to China despite Defence Dept objections; facilitated by Loral whose CEO was the Dem party's biggest donor.
The Ron Brown affair. Sec of Commerce dies in plane crash, he was about to face an Independent Counsel and had stated he "wasn't going down alone".
Foreign money in 1996 elections - Al Gore's Buddhist Temple caper.
Fast tracking >500K citizenship applications in time for the election, OK in itself except FBI checks were skipped, again a Gore project.
Continued harrassment and intimidation of witnesses etc in sexual misconduct lawsuits (Jones, Willey et al.). Damage control was Hillary's specialty.
As the joke says, pretty rich for Billary to each make millions off memoirs when they spent hours in the dock claiming they remembered nothing !
How could anyone want them anywhere near the White House is beyond me.
Yak40 - You forgot renting out Lincoln's bedroom to Chinese businessmen.
Verity
It's not, as you know, an exhaustive list, just what I could remember easily :)
Then there's AlGore's (aka Goron, Goracle) Airline Safety Commission set up after TWA800 (another one for conspiracy types, like Vince Foster's suicide etc).
Their report was gutted after airline lobbyists got to work (then Senate Leader Daschle(D)'s wife was a big airline lobbyist), big airlines then made big donations to the DNC in time for the 1996 election and extra airport security measures recommended (e.g. bomb detectors, background checks etc) left open ended, so no teeth there.
Would some of these have (partially) stopped 9/11 ?
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