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In reply to the discussion: Burying Bill - Clinton that is... [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Please, spare me the huffy-puffy think of the children outrage. It was silly, then. It sure as shit isn't a rationale to go after Hillary nearly some 2 decades after the fact.
He was not leading the US Military into war when he screwed around, he was working late hours in his house which also happens to be the place of work for the President. I'm also fairly sure that's not the first blowjob which has ever taken place in the white house. Horrors!
If ML had ever said that Clinton had used his position or his power to pressure her into doing something she didn't very much herself want to, "harassment" might be relevant- but she did not. And, like it or not, she was an adult- (as much as the demographic majority on DU may have trouble understanding that anyone under 60 isn't a "whippersnapper"
All those Millennials who the moral panic penis police were so wrought out of shape over at the time -remember?- because "they're reading about oral sex in the newspaper"- well, they grew up to be the most supportive generation of things like LGBT equality, in US History.
Somehow, the Union survived the Clenipocalypse.