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In reply to the discussion: America thanks you Monica Lewinsky! [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)They must have your name linked up to some speed alert/alarm. Your OP was at 11:37 p.m., and included a link to a detailed 6 page article. Yet your first hostile reply was posted at 11:39 p.m. and said poster confidently, albeit erroneously, accused you of slander. I liked that you correctly pointed out to him/her that slander is spoken. The easy-peasy way we first year law students used to remember the difference between slander and libel: Slander and spoken both begin with "s", leaving libel to match up w/ written.
Given the near immediate response time, I reasonably doubt that he/she actually bothered to read that very well written article. My doubt is further substantiated by the failure to point out even one single specific statement as being untrue.
I do sincerely thank Ms. Lewinsky for this unintended consequence. My god - think of the cost to retirees (chained CPI, reduced benefits, extended years before eligibility) over the past 20 years, not to mention the millions which Big Banking would have siphoned off every year in various maintenance charges and transfer fees from every single social security individual account. A relative/New York banker explained to me how Wall Street was salivating to get its hands on those social security funds. She said that in addition to annual fees, that every time an investment formula was changed, i.e,. churned, like changing the distribution from say, 5 percent in municipal bonds to 6 percent in municipal bonds, the banks would charge a transfer fee to every single investor. 59 million Americans will be collecting social security this year. With privatization, my god how the money rolls in! Or I should say, rolls up, as in up to the One Percenters.
Meanwhile, Ms. Lewinsky has been paying a 20 year penance of public humiliation. Now if Ms. Lewinsky was motivated by revenge, like some people(see below), she would have been speaking out long before now, and she would not have accepted responsibility for her own behavior, as she has. In that respect, she has behaved with more class than those who have excused, rationalized and enabled President Clinton's actions with her.
3 months ago
First on CNNConfidants diary: Clinton wanted to keep records for revenge'
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CNN 's Dan Merica, CNN Political Research Director Robert Yoon
Fayetteville, Arkansas (CNN) - Shortly before Hillary Clintons effort to pass health care reform died in the summer of 1994, the first lady asked a close friend and confidant for advice on how best to preserve her general memories of the administration and of health care in particular.
When asked why, according to the friends June 20, 1994, diary entry, Clinton said, Revenge.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/12/confidants-diary-clinton-wanted-to-keep-records-for-revenge/