Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hillary Clinton At Home at Time of Lewinsky Affair

At long last Hillary Clinton's daily schedules from her days as First Lady have been released and they will no doubt (1) shed light on the veracity - or more likely the lack thereof - of some her claims to have been involved in significant foreign policy matters, and (2) remind people of the seamier aspects of the Clinton White House. Personally, I suspect that the releases will not help her campaign, although they will make Rush Limbaugh and others of that ilk salivate at the thought of her as the Democrat nominee. On reason I suspect that the far right is trying to savage Obama with the cherry picked clips of Rev. Wright is that they NEED Hillary to be the Democrat nominee. I would also ask, do we really want Bill Clinton anywhere near the White House again? I don't!! Here is an example of what the Virginian Pilot is running today and it serves to show how degenerate Bill Clinton really is ( http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLINTON_PAPERS?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT):
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House on a half dozen days when her husband had sexual encounters there with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen. Clinton's schedule, released Wednesday among 11,000 pages of papers from her years as first lady.

The words of the schedules are dry, but they take on emotional weight when coupled with revelations about the sex scandal that eventually came to light. A year later, the first lady's schedules show her pressing ahead with public events and showing her face as revelations about the scandal upended her life and threatened Bill Clinton's presidency.
[O]n Nov. 15, 1995, the first lady went to a mid-afternoon "meet & greet" photo opportunity at the White House with Nobel Laureates and their families. That night, Lewinsky had what she later said was her first sexual encounter with the president, in the private study off the Oval office. On Jan. 21, 1996, the first lady and the president privately toured an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. That afternoon, Lewinsky said, she and Bill Clinton had a sexual encounter in the hallway by the private study. The schedules indicate she was home on at least two other days when her husband and the intern got together.

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