2016 Postmortem
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By Karen Tumulty and Frances Stead Sellers January 6 at 11:03 PM
The ghosts of the 1990s have returned to confront Hillary Clinton, released from the vault by Donald Trump and revved up by a 21st-century version of the scandal machine that almost destroyed her husbands presidency.
This is a moment that her campaign has long expected. What remains to be seen is whether a reminder of allegations of sexual impropriety against Bill Clinton which were deemed to have varying levels of credibility when they were first aired can gain new traction in a different context.
The fresher case being made is that Hillary Clinton has been, at a minimum, hypocritical about her husbands treatment of women, and possibly even complicit in discrediting his accusers.
And it is being pressed at a time when there is a new sensitivity toward victims of unwanted sexual contact, and when one of the biggest news stories is the prosecution of once-beloved comedian Bill Cosby on charges that he drugged and assaulted a woman 12 years ago one of dozens who have accused him of similar behavior.
In November, Hillary Clinton tweeted: Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported. She has made womens issues a central focus of her campaign and is counting on a swell of support for the historic prospect of the first female president.
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John Poet
(2,510 posts)... getting to relive all the 'episodes' of Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconducts... since I enjoyed it all so much the first time...
This is the one thing that actually IS "inevitable" about the Hillary candidacy.
Paka
(2,760 posts)If nothing else, this hypocrisy should be a sinker. The "Big Dog" is a thorn in her side.
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Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)opposition to neo-liberal economics. I don't admire their part in consigning the New Deal and the Great Society to mist of the past. - But, I am not interested in stirring up matters like this from peoples' personal lives that have been way, way over discussed a long time ago. However much a cad the former President Clinton may have been - he was no Bill Cosby and the comparison is sickening.
I couldn't care less who slept with who or whether a blowjob constitutes sex. I want to see Sen. Sanders defeat Secretary Clinton because I want to see social-democracy defeat neoliberal economics. That's what this fight should be all about.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Right wingers just can't wrap their mind around it. Why these attacks help her. After decades they are still too stupid to figure it out.
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)Bring it on!
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)Sure, let them attack the woman who had been cheated on by her husband. See how women voters (and many male ones) respond to that.
PDittie
(8,322 posts)and I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)I suppose we'll be hearing about all of this here until Clinton has the nomination. It's a shame, really.