WAPO article being flogged to prove Hillary "destroyed" Bill's women. Doesn't look that way to me.

[nolabear]

I just watched Boris Epshtyn (sorry; the spelling escapes me) touting Hillary's hatred of and harming of women her supposed actions after Bill's affairs. Here is one of the major articles he cited. Frankly, when I read it, it sounds as though she was strong, angry, hurt, and did lash out, pretty much as one would. It speaks pretty well of the double bind a woman finds herself in when men behave badly. And in my opinion she comes across as having survived, having evolved, and having done damned well for herself and her family.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/enabler-or-family-defender-how-hillary-clinton-responded-to-husbands-accusers/2016/09/28/58dad5d4-6fb1-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html

Compare the Clintons today to the Trumps, and the trail of abandoned kids and women who have alleged rape and abuse, and tell me who has triumphed.

[underpants]

1. Aaaand their other current spiel is to flogged Miss Universe 1996

This makes selse to them somehow.

[hlthe2b]

2. Since when does a wronged spouse not have the right to harbor anger toward both spouse and their

paramour/mistress/adultery partner? As a woman, I see this going NO WHERE.

[nolabear]

4. I think it might help her more than hurt her, especially if they address it well.

I keep thinking how they might do that. It's a tightrope walk because of the capacity for spin.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Didn't you hear?

She was supposed to invite them to lunch, have spa days with them, go shopping with them, invite them to her book club, invite them to daily tea parties...

, for those who are challenged in that department.

[bigtree]

3. so they think the spouse should be sympathetic to the mistress

...besties.

[nolabear]

6. Wouldn't you love to know what Ivana and Marla really think?

[radical noodle]

5. I agree

What woman wouldn't be furious about such a public unraveling of her husband's affair? That she managed to keep her comments so private suggests to me that this was even more muted than most reactions to such a thing. I remember the back and forth between Ivana and Trump.

Hillary loved and still loves Bill. She deals with what she has to and has likely had to harden a little in this regard. An enabler would be introducing him to these women. No woman who has experienced this herself will be critical, and there are a lot of us out there.

[nolabear]

7. You laid it on the line re enablers.

Exactly! An enabler turns a blind eye at best, sets it up at worst. What did they expect her to do, lock him up? Marriages are marriages; they're made of all kinds of things. Theirs has worked for a long time.

[radical noodle]

13. This issue of Monica being "violated"

is nonsense too. She said it was consensual. She wasn't underage. They're trying to change what really happened.

[JaneQPublic]

8. Recent NYT article also discredits Boris' claims.

It shows it was James Carville who used the terms "bimbo" and "floozy," not Hillary, and it found little/no evidence she was an enabler.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/politics/90s-scandals-threaten-to-erode-hillary-clintons-strength-with-women.html

[nolabear]

10. Thanks! It takes a village to debunk an idiot!

I wouldn't call that a positive article by any means but it does clear up some things.

[Madam45for2923]

9. As a woman I find this "criticism" to be crap and plain hateful bullying.

Bunch of cheaters angry at a cheated wife.

[ailsagirl]

12. I know-- does that make even the slightest bit of sense??

[ailsagirl]

11. I think she came to terms with that long ago

[BlueMTexpat]

14. If anyone "destroyed Bill's women,"

it is those individuals and institutions that exploited those women to make names and careers for themselves.

And thanks to Trumplethinskin, their private lives are being raked through the coals again. Some, like Flowers, may welcome the attention. That may not be universal.

Oh and Delusional Don specifically calls Paula Jones a loser here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/30/this-video-might-make-it-harder-for-trump-to-attack-hillary-over-bills-affairs/?utm_term=.6a2bb30fce00

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

Fittingly hoist with his own petard.