I'm No Monica
From Ben Smith's Blog at Politico:
An Ohio-based group of Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters say they’ll work actively against Sen. Barack Obama if he becomes the nominee, arguing that Clinton has been the subject of “intense sexism” by party leaders and the media.
Sexism, what a joke! How about acknowledging that the biggest sexist of the Clinton campaign is the one closest to Hillary, her husband Bill Clinton. How soon those boomer woman forget that the President they voted for in 1992 and 1996 had oral sex with a young intern in the White House! (I don't see how they could with all that Bill Clinton campaign finger wagging.)
Have they twisted history so much to believe that Bill just couldn't control himself against the femme fatal ways of Monica Lewinsky? I'm no boomer prude. I even thought impeachment was an over the top Republican stunt to humiliate both Bill and Hillary but I also admit I felt just as disgusted and betrayed by both of them. They sat for a Sixty Minutes interview in 92 and declared and then asked us to believe that Bill's "problems" were in the past.
So to all the women supporters singing "I Am Woman" for Hillary listen up. I'm not going to stand by and have Bill Clinton shoved down MY throat . You want Hillary Clinton elected based on her merits then you make your candidate understand that for some of us her being elected to the Presidency doesn't include Bill Clinton.
If we can make a candidate's past relationships deal breakers in getting the votes, as in the case of the Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers for Barack Obama, then we or someone better stop making the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair off limits. As far as I'm concerned Bill Clinton doesn't deserve eight minutes let alone eight years back in the White House. He f*cked over a lot more than just Monica with that fiasco. He stopped the start of bipartisan Social Security reform with Newt Gingrich and the Republicans right in it's tracks. To read more: Steven Gillon's, In Monica's Shadow. Hillary may have gotten it tough from the media on some issues and some pidley stuff like Bosnia but she's gotten a free ride on dredging up a lot of her past. A past most women seem to have fogged over.
Remember our current President's quote, "Fool me once, we won't get fooled again"
I'm not sorry because I want a brand new bold candidate for President and not some 1990's hash. Barack Obama made some political mistakes in Chicago and may have some old political ways about doing some things, so "they" say, but how much can they find in 25 plus or minus years of a man's personal and political life. Maybe a lot but it hasn't happened yet. Hillary Clinton's vetted is just code for "keep moving, nothing new here". Well maybe not new but some of us are still choking and have had it up to here with the old.
Remember Scrooge's partner Marley's life was vetted in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol but he still had to wear that heavy, long, clanking chain for all of eternity.
An Ohio-based group of Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters say they’ll work actively against Sen. Barack Obama if he becomes the nominee, arguing that Clinton has been the subject of “intense sexism” by party leaders and the media.
Sexism, what a joke! How about acknowledging that the biggest sexist of the Clinton campaign is the one closest to Hillary, her husband Bill Clinton. How soon those boomer woman forget that the President they voted for in 1992 and 1996 had oral sex with a young intern in the White House! (I don't see how they could with all that Bill Clinton campaign finger wagging.)
Have they twisted history so much to believe that Bill just couldn't control himself against the femme fatal ways of Monica Lewinsky? I'm no boomer prude. I even thought impeachment was an over the top Republican stunt to humiliate both Bill and Hillary but I also admit I felt just as disgusted and betrayed by both of them. They sat for a Sixty Minutes interview in 92 and declared and then asked us to believe that Bill's "problems" were in the past.
So to all the women supporters singing "I Am Woman" for Hillary listen up. I'm not going to stand by and have Bill Clinton shoved down MY throat . You want Hillary Clinton elected based on her merits then you make your candidate understand that for some of us her being elected to the Presidency doesn't include Bill Clinton.
If we can make a candidate's past relationships deal breakers in getting the votes, as in the case of the Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers for Barack Obama, then we or someone better stop making the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair off limits. As far as I'm concerned Bill Clinton doesn't deserve eight minutes let alone eight years back in the White House. He f*cked over a lot more than just Monica with that fiasco. He stopped the start of bipartisan Social Security reform with Newt Gingrich and the Republicans right in it's tracks. To read more: Steven Gillon's, In Monica's Shadow. Hillary may have gotten it tough from the media on some issues and some pidley stuff like Bosnia but she's gotten a free ride on dredging up a lot of her past. A past most women seem to have fogged over.
Remember our current President's quote, "Fool me once, we won't get fooled again"
I'm not sorry because I want a brand new bold candidate for President and not some 1990's hash. Barack Obama made some political mistakes in Chicago and may have some old political ways about doing some things, so "they" say, but how much can they find in 25 plus or minus years of a man's personal and political life. Maybe a lot but it hasn't happened yet. Hillary Clinton's vetted is just code for "keep moving, nothing new here". Well maybe not new but some of us are still choking and have had it up to here with the old.
Remember Scrooge's partner Marley's life was vetted in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol but he still had to wear that heavy, long, clanking chain for all of eternity.
