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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Memo to candidate Hillary Clinton: I could have been a Monica Lewinsky" [View all]noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)205. Me Too
It sure would make it more enjoyable to be here. Hopefully I'll see you in another thread sometime.
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"Memo to candidate Hillary Clinton: I could have been a Monica Lewinsky" [View all]
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
OP
I think anyone with a sense of decency would leave out this topic altogether. I am
Cal33
Feb 2016
#85
I didn't excuse his behavior but I didn't think he should have been impeached over it...
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#25
No, but the president should be excoriated for his behavior. It was all on him, to be sure.
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#148
Times have changed. Today a president could never get away with having sex with interns
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#12
Now a Clinton supporter is saying it's OK for the president to have sex with his interns
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#65
Heaven forbid! Bill Clinton had consensual sex with another woman. Let's punish Hillary n/t
Onlooker
Feb 2016
#11
What would happen if president Obama got caught having sex with an intern?
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#46
Why won't you answer the simple question? "What do you think should have happened?"...nt
SidDithers
Feb 2016
#68
He should have done what millions are now doing...owned up and started counseling on why it's
libdem4life
Feb 2016
#125
Actually I think the people to blame is Bill Clinton and anyone who defended him
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#198
No, it's predatory sex. It's fueled first by power. It isn't the sex...it's the misuse of power.
libdem4life
Feb 2016
#127
Actually it's more disgraceful to defend the POTUS having sex with 22 year old interns
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#18
She was not the victim? Really? Bill was the victim and Monica is a huge what? What has she?
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#30
Yeah it's called abuse of power. The most powerful man in the world took advantage of
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#36
It's not personal. It's an abuse of power and authority for the president to fondle the interns.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#50
Do you think the president of the US should be allowed to have sex with his interns ?
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#55
America is the victim of a president who couldn't keep his hands off the interns
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#219
Holy shit, I guess when you have nothing left you pull out the blue dress.
giftedgirl77
Feb 2016
#29
It's not OK for the president to have sex with his 20 year old interns.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#84
The whole country was the victim as we lost years making excuses for the presidential BJ
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#49
I was also assaulted by the boss/owner of the bar I tended when I was just old enough
polly7
Feb 2016
#74
Why anyone is still defending Bill Clinton's sexcapades 20 years later is beyond me
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#78
I don't know how many affairs Bill Clinton had or why she decided to stay with him
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#101
Facts are facts. What happened happened. The 90s are over and we don't want to go back.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#122
We're talking about how Clinton had sex with a White House intern and the liberals who defend it.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#200
As a woman who has been in Hillary's shoes - I won't go there BUT I will say the difference between
jillan
Feb 2016
#106
Bill Clinton didn't teach this girl about oral sex, the Republicans and Ken Starr did.
Beacool
Feb 2016
#109
The fact is that candidates major supporters do become a poltical issues in and of themselves.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#121
That's funny because the Clinton campaign attacked Obama for attending black liberation sermons
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#142
Very relevant. It was Bill's 'issues' that made him compromised, we got DOMA to prove how holy
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2016
#135
I have a sister who lives in Arkansas. It was well known that he had security and LEOs
libdem4life
Feb 2016
#132
What an important talk. God, I can't even imagine what it would have been like to be her.
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2016
#134
I completely disagree. The president should not have sex with his interns. That's my bottom line.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#157
Of course but then Bill will be back in the White House too and he has this record
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#154
And with one post, all the otherwise arguable objections from camp HRC to this thread, are negated.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#187
Do you think it's the president's private business when he has sex with his interns?
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#180
So disgusting that the best idea the Democratic Establishment can come up with in 2016
Dems to Win
Feb 2016
#193
Very often the anti-Hillary folks on here don't sound any different than FReepers.
Stand and Fight
Feb 2016
#230
And this is the anchor chained around her anke that will forever follow her.
Major Hogwash
Feb 2016
#244