2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Memo to candidate Hillary Clinton: I could have been a Monica Lewinsky" [View all]Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Is that a hard concept to get?
People looked the other way back then, in the 1990s, but nobody is going to look the other way today.
Our society has changed for the better. There is more awareness now about issues of sexual harassment, assault, rape, and inappropriate relationships by people in positions of trust and authority.
We've been through the Catholic Church scandal. We have challenged rape culture at colleges and in the military. Sexual harassment in the workplace is taken much more seriously these days.
It's a different country today than when the Clintons occupied the White House. Times have changed. And we are never going back.
President Obama has made the country proud. We owe him and his family a lot of respect for that.
He never could have gotten away with anything like what Bill Clinton did. If Obama had sex with a young intern and lied about it on TV I'm sure he would have been removed from office. Part of that is white privilege, and part of that is that times have changed.