re: For older posters: How does this compare to Clinton’s impeachment circus?

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Clinton did commit perjury, that was indisputable. The argument was whether it was important enough for impeachment and removal from office.

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And I think the Republicans were fricking idiots for voting on Impeachment.

The voters agreed with me.

The Democrats are apparently too stupid to learn this lesson.

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about him having an affair

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Y'all wagged your fingers at republicans for years telling em to get over such hangups with elected officials and then become apoplectic when they do.

Clinton committed felonies. Was also later disbarred over sordid affair.

I go back to Nixons, the difference is that the R's went to RN and told him that his actions had gone to far and he had to step down.

With Clinton the D's whored themselves to protect Billy, that was the only way to protect their own power.

I was a liberal when Nixon was Pres., started voting at 18 in 76 for Carter, after the way the D's acted when Billy was Pres. I swore to never vote for the whore party again.

looks like this time they are committing political suicide

Not even close.

We had an actual semen stained dress, and calls for POTUS penis identification, all with the background of a videoed press conference where Wild Bill was lecturing the nation by emphatically saying "I did not have sex with THAT WOMAN"

Here we've got some guy, who talked to some other dude, who heard that a female staffer was told that Trump made a controversial phone call. And the actual evidence the nation has this time IS THAT VERY PHONE CALL. So it really doesn't matter what any witness thinks they heard

Clinton gave us "Depends on what the definition of "is" is"


Wonder what the catchphrase from this shitshow will be?

Clinton’s involved an actual crime.

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Clinton’s was about him having an affair and lying about it.

If Trump was held to the same standard Democrats are held to, he’d be facing the electric chair.

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Let’s start with the fact that Clinton had multiple credible allegations of rape and sexual harassment which the media worked overtime to shield him from.

That was also the time period when the LEFT had pushed for sexual harassment rules in the work place, including such new concepts as “hostile work environment”.

In the midst of all that Clinton was actually sued for sexual harassment. Now, I tended to agree that he should not have been allowed to be sued while sitting as president, but the Supreme Court ruled otherwise.

So, in his deposition, while being sued for sexual harassment, while leading the party who pushed for sexual harassment rules in the workplace, he lied under oath. A big whopper of a lie, and he got caught, and he lied on national tv to the American people about it.

This wasn’t just “an affair”. It involved a huge power differential (a frequently described attribute of workplace harassment) with a teenage intern in the actual Oval Office.

So, let’s get the facts straight about this supposedly minor sexual dalliance. It was a much bigger deal than just the discovery of an affair.

Having said all of that, I was on the fence as to whether it constituted a high crime or misdemeanor, as were many Republicans. I personally opposed impeachment. The Republicans ultimately agreed by voting against conviction in the Senate.