During his speech at the Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton waxed nostalgic about his budding relationship with Hillary Rodham that began back in the early '70s. There was just one problem as he walked us along their historical timeline: he left out, intentionally no doubt, all the other women he kept close to his bedroom.
What's more, as he laid out his wife's political record year by year as the very reason she deserves to be president, he time traveled straight through 1998, when the Monica Lewinsky scandal rocked his administration.
Not that it was expected that Clinton would dredge up decades of infidelity, sexual assault and rape to tell "their" story, but did he really think America has forgotten his past sins?
"In the spring of 1971, I met a girl," Clinton began. And as the last consonant of that sentence echoed through the convention center, it was almost as if you could hear millions of Americans cry out in one solitary thought: "Which one?"
A string of sexual assault allegations surfaced around that same time, one that occurred while he was a student at Oxford, another as a student at Yale where he met Hillary, and also in 1974, when he was a law professor at the University of Arkansas. Forgive us, Mr. Clinton, if we were confused on which "girl" you meant.
It's extremely difficult to buy the love story he was weaving with all that we know of his sexual liaisons as a student, attorney general of Arkansas, governor of Arkansas, and as president of the United States, when he seduced a White House intern into the Oval Office for various trysts. What's even more insulting is that Lewinsky's lover believes Americans are that gullible.
But to the Clinton sycophants, this speech was enrapturing and nothing could tarnish their perception.
Even Rachel Maddow thought most of the speech was good and wasn't bothered by the hypocrisy. Maddow didn't love it all, though, but it had nothing to do with his past indiscretions. She explained live on MSNBC:
"I think the beginning of the speech was a controversial way to start, honestly, talking 'the girl,' 'a girl,' leading with this long story about him being attracted to an unnamed girl and thinking about whether he was starting something he couldn’t finish, building her whole political story for the whole first half of the speech around her marriage to him. I think, lest there were worries this is going to be too feminist a convention, that was not a feminist way to start. But the end of the speech was really good. I’ve got to say, the top of the speech I found shocking and weird."
She expected a serial philanderer to be pro-feminism? Talk about gullible. Maddow was clearly his target audience.
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