by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
This week New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the person who was appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate when she moved over to run the State Department, grabbed some headlines when she told a reporter that Bill Clinton should have resigned the presidency as a result of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Gillibrand, whom some see as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, rattled the cages of more than a few party lions with that unexpected remark.
Bill Clinton, who came to Washington, DC, in the early 1990's with a reputation for extra-marital affairs following him from his time as Governor of Arkansas, was supposedly a fanboy of JFK's sexual exploits in the White House. Regardless of his motivations, Clinton could not overcome his reckless passions, and his lustful pursuits of a young female intern became the consuming news story in the nation's capital for many months at the end of that decade.
On one level, the one cited by die-hard Clinton supporters, all the poor man did was engage in a sexual act with a consenting adult. One the other hand, however, Clinton broke his marriage vows and he did so in a place that is sacrosanct in American history, the White House. And while Clinton's partner in this sex act may have been of consenting age, she was just 22-years-old when she was brought to her knees by the 49-year-old leader of the free world - a barely legal young woman meeting the needs of creep bearing enormous stature and power. It might as well have been rape.
And Gillibrand is right. Bill Clinton should have resigned the presidency out of shame - even if he committed no "crime" and the impeachment process was little more than political overreach by the Republican Party. He should have manned-up and said, "By God I was wrong, and I am ashamed." But Bill Clinton blamed everyone but Bill.
He was no better than Judge Roy Moore.
He was no better than Donald John Trump.
And he should have resigned.
Citizen Journalist
This week New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the person who was appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate when she moved over to run the State Department, grabbed some headlines when she told a reporter that Bill Clinton should have resigned the presidency as a result of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Gillibrand, whom some see as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, rattled the cages of more than a few party lions with that unexpected remark.
Bill Clinton, who came to Washington, DC, in the early 1990's with a reputation for extra-marital affairs following him from his time as Governor of Arkansas, was supposedly a fanboy of JFK's sexual exploits in the White House. Regardless of his motivations, Clinton could not overcome his reckless passions, and his lustful pursuits of a young female intern became the consuming news story in the nation's capital for many months at the end of that decade.
On one level, the one cited by die-hard Clinton supporters, all the poor man did was engage in a sexual act with a consenting adult. One the other hand, however, Clinton broke his marriage vows and he did so in a place that is sacrosanct in American history, the White House. And while Clinton's partner in this sex act may have been of consenting age, she was just 22-years-old when she was brought to her knees by the 49-year-old leader of the free world - a barely legal young woman meeting the needs of creep bearing enormous stature and power. It might as well have been rape.
And Gillibrand is right. Bill Clinton should have resigned the presidency out of shame - even if he committed no "crime" and the impeachment process was little more than political overreach by the Republican Party. He should have manned-up and said, "By God I was wrong, and I am ashamed." But Bill Clinton blamed everyone but Bill.
He was no better than Judge Roy Moore.
He was no better than Donald John Trump.
And he should have resigned.
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