That he’s smart is obvious. But immature about sex? Who could have guessed?
A new book says President Clinton was one of the smartest men to ever occupy the White House but had an immature attitude when it came to sex.
The book quotes NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, who covered the Clinton administration’s most inglorious moment when Republicans got Clinton impeached for lying about having sex with Monica Lewinsky, the New York Daily News reported Friday. Clinton had the “mentality of an 18-year-old” when it came to sex, Totenberg is quoted as saying. That assessment appears in “A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him” by Michael Takiff.
Totenberg says she believes it was Clinton’s inability to face his wife Hillary Clinton that led him to make the fateful lie. Clinton aides like Paul Begala said they believed the president when he went on television and denied having sex with Lewinsky.
When the truth was revealed, Republicans were frustrated by the lack of public outrage, Takiff writes. They thought the Clintons were “wizards who had somehow enchanted America out of its moral moorings,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said.
Given all that’s emanated from the White House since Clinton left office, it’s hard to imagine that people once thought a president having sex and lying about it under oath was worth impeaching one for it. I don’t care if a president has sex with farm animals if it makes him able to be a better president. Just don’t start unnecessary wars, don’t turn the country into Big Brother, don’t be owned by big business and Wall Street, etc, etc.
Bill Clinton sure seems smart and likable. I figure it was that crazed bitch Janet “Kill All Branch Davidians” Reno who was the driving force behind the
persecutionprosecution of the sex scandal.Bill was brilliant, in the Andy Jackson mold. One of the most capable presidents ever.
The impeachment wasn’t about the blowjob so much as the lying about it. A guy that has been a lawyer for decades might be expected to know that lying before a grand jury is a no-no.
“I did not have sex with that woman.” So enter the blue dress with cum stains on it. Good thing they saved it for posterity or Monica would have been dragged through the mud behind Hillary’s limousine.
#19 Father “Mextli, prove it please.”
I wish I could but that was just a tease. I’m in the same boat as everyone else.
At the time the GOP leadership was on the TV saying they had absolutely no inclination to impeach on the sex issue at all, that it was a non-starter, politicially unsound and that it wasn’t a level of crime that demanded it.
Then one morning their entire storyline changed. As a group they came to the press with talking points about how outrageous it was and that it had to be punished. Translation — somebody with money made a phonecall. Suddenly it became the most important in Washington.
For the next year the GOP didn’t want to take the headlines off of impeachment, and Clinton used their reluctance to argue to get a huge amount of Democratic agenda turned into law. He turned impeachment into an advantage.
Democrats in Arkansas named him Slick Willy for a reason — the man knows how to play the game better than anyone else in the business.
S.
Everyone knows what a pussy hound is.
Thanks to Bill, receiver of millions of Chinese dollars, their missiles can knock out our satellites…
Before him, they couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
AND don’t forget, Obama can’t kick the economy in Gear because the Mastermind, George W Bush, from Texas, is why the economy is so bad.
So if there is a genius, its President Bush.
Not Mr. semen on a dress.
Jethro Tull wrote a song about this blog… “Living In The Past.”
Aging liberal loons stoking each other, moaning for Bill.
Its the 21st century, President Hoover Obama is shepherding our economy into the Greatest Depression…while Michele Peron shops….
Our first Anti-American President is so bad…you loons weep for the glory days of Triangulate Clinton…
You have no idea what tsunami it will be in November…elitist dogs will be swept away by the people.
# 21 B, Dog “I figure it was …Reno who was the driving force behind the persecution prosecution of the sex scandal.”
Don’t be naive. Last thing she wanted was Clinton out of the WH. In fact, rumor has it she held the sexcapades over his head in order to keep her job!
” It has been recorded in private letters, discovered in the 1960s, that Harding had a 15 year on-and-off-again affair with Carrie Fulton Phillips. Harding also had an affair with Nan Britton, who published her tell-all book The President’s Daughter in 1927, claiming that Harding was the father of her daughter, Elizabeth Ann. 105 letters were discovered after Mrs. Phillips died in 1960. Some of these letters were as long as 35 to 40 pages with alleged evidence that Harding had affairs with both of these women. Although these letters have been banned from publication by court order, historian Francis Russell, who viewed the letters, claimed that President Harding had a sexual affair in a closet of the White House with his “dearie” while the Secret Service kept a look out for Mrs. Harding.”
But that’s OK cos the SS, Secret Service, kept an eye out so he wouldn’t get caught.
Kept illegal booze too and gambled the white house china.
Yeah Clinton was SOOOOO much worse.
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#15
When did Reagan himself, as President, ever testify under oath?
#30
Did Harding ever testify in front of the Grand Jury and falsely tell them he was not having sex with that girl? Yeah, what Clinton did was worse.
The rap on Clinton was that he was so busy, so applied/dedicated, such a policy wonk, informed, hard working that even when he “cheated” on Hilary he did it with the closest woman available, in the Oval Office, even while on the phone with foreign leaders (doing the same thing?). Its true, no one can imagine BushtheRetard working so hard.
Bill and Hillary = Premiere Political Power Couple. Both liars and whores.
He lied before the Grand Jury because he thought he could get away with it – and he did.
He lied to the American People and threw the honor of the office down the sewer because he thought he could get away with it – and he did.
Very pragmatic. The Greeks told of a Philosopher King who could rule a nation or could be the King of Thieves=ie a tyrant. Bill pretty much applied his talents on both sides of the ledger.
I don’t admire him for lying and I really don’t support his selling pardons and taking cash from the Chinese. Did I mention he was a lying scumbag?
Yet, I’d vote for him again over anyone I can see in the Puke Party.
Pragmatism.
“Oui. For a man to be unfaithful is French. To be caught being unfaithful, is American.” Inspector Andre, in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
#32
Hey Tommy Boy!
Didn’t you get it. They are ALL scum.
Now go back to watching TV so you don’t have to concern yourself with it.
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Given all that’s emanated from the White House since Clinton left office, it’s hard to imagine that people once thought a president having sex and lying about it under oath was worth impeaching one for it. I don’t care if a president has sex with farm animals if it makes him able to be a better president. Just don’t start unnecessary wars, don’t turn the country into Big Brother, don’t be owned by big business and Wall Street, etc, etc.
Two thumbs up and a big toe on that one.
Alphie, my favorite butt buddie,
I have saved up a whole load of super fresh turd for you. Not only corn but lots of beans and salsa. mmmmmmm. A dish only you love.
And I bought a new dildo for your butt too. This’ll stretch that butt hole, no, not your mouth, the other end that spews crap. It’ll stretch it until your gerbil can do somersaults in there. OOoooooo, that’ll make your day better than the Jehovah’s Witness having a convention on your front stoop. Just think. You could even attend the JW convention with the gerbil up there. Boy, that would have them all thinking how you are one of them.
Wouldn’t it be a thrill having a gerbil doing somersaults while you tell us how great Bush jr was as President? That beaming smile would be enough to convince everyone.
Isn’t a good thing for your gerbil you’re such an asshole?
Lyrics to “Living in the Past”:
Happy and I’m smiling,
walk a mile to drink your water.
You know I’d love to love you,
and above you there’s no other.
We’ll go walking out
while others shout of war’s disaster.
Oh, we won’t give in,
let’s go living in the past.
Once I used to join in
every boy and girl was my friend.
Now there’s revolution, but they don’t know
what they’re fighting.
Let us close out eyes;
outside their lives go on much faster.
Oh, we won’t give in,
we’ll keep living in the past.
////// Seems to me “this blog” represents the arguing and war of current times that “Living in the Past” would be the opposite of. The review which is the basis of this thread is about a newly published book.
Just another example of when Alfie says “Every blog here is about the past” he is wrong.
Good to recall Jethro Tull. The guy wanted to be a guitar player but one night he saw Eric Clapton and he gave it up. Overall, our gain. Good guitar. Good flute.
#38 Clearly the words today apply to you aging baby boomers longing for Woodstock again…
For the Clinton magic.
Like Obama who thought if he gave one more speech on health care, the tea party would accept it.
You loons just don’t get it…you are walled up elitists in your ivory towers, while the poor and exploited are us…and we are gathering in the public square for our freedom from YOU.
We don’t want your mind control…we don’t want your menu, we don’t want your green crap…we don’t want your tyranny…we aren’t victims…we are free Americans standing strong, we don’t want your entitlements…we want you out of our lives and out of the way so we can enjoy freedom, in a free market, in a free country.
See you, in November…goodbye Pelosi…goodbye Reid…good by Obama collaborators…good bye statists.
“However, once it was agreed that the Grand Jury was permitted to ask him about his personal life, he was obligated to tell the truth. Basically, you are saying that because you liked him as a President and given that you (and I) find the subject matter to be pedantic, it is OK to lie to the Grand Jury? Sheesh.”
You’re right in a way. Clinton should have simply answered that his personal life was none of their business, which was indeed the truth, since sex is not illegal.