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IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 12:39 PM Oct 2018

Bill Clinton...

was a great president who brought us peace and prosperity during almost a decade. He connected with Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds and had the smartest woman in American political history by his side, who should have been our current president.

A flawed character? Sure. A ladies man who made very wrong choices, but a human being after all. There are no perfect icons out there, but we should be able to recognize that Bill's consensual, extramarital activities weigh less than all the good he did for the country.

Republicans have done more to fuck up the so called family values they claim to defend.

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uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
1. K&R, ReThugs support Putin's whore, Trump, who abuses children and has sexualized his own daughter.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 01:26 PM
Oct 2018

I make sure to remind them of this often when they go off into morality or civility

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
2. I could not agree more.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 01:57 PM
Oct 2018

Everything you say is true. The democratic party ALWAYS puts their very best candidates into the WH, unlike the gop who scrape the bottom of their barrel.

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
3. We have NOTHING to justify to these repukes
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:02 PM
Oct 2018

I refuse to bend my knee to their concerns. They have chosen the worst lowlifes ever to head our government. We need not make apologies for anyone we've chosen to lead government.

LisaM

(27,792 posts)
6. My life really improved when Bill Clinton was president.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:29 PM
Oct 2018

I didn't agree with everything he did, and he wasn't my first choice of the slate of Democratic candidates in 1992, but my circumstances improved by a long shot when he was in office. I went from basically being poor to being middle class. Since then, it's stayed pretty flat for me economically, no big jumps like back then.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
11. Seriously? Just about any man would have sex with a woman who showed her underwear to him?
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:05 PM
Oct 2018

Seriously?

Hekate

(90,538 posts)
13. I know many men who would have said no to that foolish young woman. But it should have remained ...
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:18 PM
Oct 2018

...a private matter. Neither did anything criminal, yet the GOP, masters of hypocrisy that they are, wanted to break the Clintons and break the federal government.

May Newt Gingrich rot in Hell.

SpankMe

(2,955 posts)
8. Plus - Bill Clinton paid a high price when he got caught
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:43 PM
Oct 2018

Humiliation, impeachment, reconciling with a betrayed wife and daughter. And all the while, never preaching endlessly about infidelity and Christian morality.

Until all of this - and more - happen to Trump, Trump and his supporters forfeit their right to even mention Bill Clinton's name - much less bring up Clinton's past behaviors; which - I'll say again - Clinton has already paid for.

videohead5

(2,165 posts)
9. This crap about Bill and Monica
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:50 PM
Oct 2018

Like Monica was the victim. Bill never offered her a job or anything if she had sex with him. He never pressured her to do anything. She went after him flashing her thong at him. He should not have done it but she was not innocent.

BadMachines

(26 posts)
10. More of the same media crap
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:02 PM
Oct 2018

Most of the time it’s all liberal ideals but when elections come around it’s all about getting fairness points and pointing out every single bad thing the Democrats have done ever. Nothing triggers the right like Clinton “dirt,” whether it’s true or not

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
12. Republicans are open about destroying America, but let's not whitewash Clinton's legacy
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:09 PM
Oct 2018

-- NAFTA
-- GATT
-- WTO
-- DOMA
-- Don't ask, don't tell
-- Glass-Stegall
-- Ending Welfare as we know it
-- Telecommunications Act
-- War on crime created worlds largest prison system
-- DLC sold the Democratic party to the Koch Brothers

... How many of the bills and programs have hurt the nation, middle-class and poor and how many have helped?

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
15. Perjury before Congress used to be a crime, comrade.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 05:29 PM
Oct 2018

That was when you were talking about getting a consensual blow job in office. Now nobody cares about anything that you did or lied about in office, no matter how sleazy or awful, no matter if you raped people, as long as you're a Republican. If you flagrantly lie about it, the media won't care. They will just repeat your bullshit and pretend that it might not be a lie. But it it is a lie, And we all know it. Everyone.

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