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Sanders: Bill Clinton's scandals 'totally disgraceful'
The Hill ^ | 1/08/16 | Lisa Hagen

Posted on 01/09/2016 2:33:30 AM PST by Libloather

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday called Bill Clinton's sexual scandals "totally disgraceful and unacceptable" but said he would not use the former president's infidelities against Hillary Clinton.

Sanders' comments came after an Iowa town hall attendee raised Bill Clinton's affair in the White House and questioned if Hillary Clinton was qualified to be president, the Washington Post reported.

"My question to you is, isn't one of the qualifications to be president to have some kind of moral authority?," the attendee asked Sanders. "I mean, how can you tell a Secret Service agent that he has to be fired for having an affair with a prostitute in a hotel room, but support a president who has an affair - a known affair - in the White House. It seems to me she isn't qualified."

"I hear what you're saying," Sanders responded. "Hillary Clinton is not Bill Clinton. What Bill Clinton did, I think we can all acknowledge was totally, totally, totally disgraceful and unacceptable.

"But I am running against Hillary Clinton. I am not running against Bill Clinton," he continued. "What we need to do as a nation is focus on the bloody issues facing this country."

Sanders said he would not discuss the personal lives of his rivals and would instead focus on the issues.

"I am not going to get into the personal stuff," Sanders said, according to The Washington Examiner. "We're looking at somebody who, in a long political career - you can call my friends in Vermont to verify this - I've never run a negative TV ad in my life.

"I am running against Hillary Clinton, we're not running against Bill Clinton," Sanders continued. "But I am running against Hillary Clinton, and I believe ... what we need to do as a nation - certainly something the Republicans are not doing - is focus on the bloody issues facing this country."

Bill Clinton's past is again under scrutiny after Donald Trump raised his past infidelities, calling him "one of the great woman abusers of all time."

Trump defended his attacks, saying Bill Clinton was fair game after Hillary Clinton accused the GOP front-runner of having a "penchant for sexism."


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To: Libloather

Why have Dems for so many years made excuses for or ignored the “disgraceful” escapades of their perverted mascot?


21 posted on 01/09/2016 5:46:38 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Libloather

Wait a minute....

Two days ago, (or so it seems) the Bernmeister was screaming that Willies shenanigans are off-limits, wasn’t he???

Now he’s commenting on them?


22 posted on 01/09/2016 5:50:30 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: chajin

It is the same principle in music. Some rock and roll acts sell way more albums after they overdose or get killed in a plane crash then they did when they were alive.


23 posted on 01/09/2016 5:52:04 AM PST by gusty
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To: windsorknot

And just like back when it happened the media defines the whole thing as just a fling between two consenting adults. They repeat this lie constantly to brainwash the ignorant masses. They never tell the truth which is that Bill paid Paula Jones $850,000.00 for what he did to her and lost his law license for lying about it. Monica Blewinski was discovered as a result of that investigation.


24 posted on 01/09/2016 5:54:06 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: gusty
To add, the only scenario where Herself would not have to answer for Slick would be if she divorced him back in the 80’s.
25 posted on 01/09/2016 5:54:42 AM PST by gusty
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To: euram

The Clinton did a shivv attack on Sanders’ family so he was responding. They got a little money through the Sanders campaign. Of course, it was basic toliet paper money for the Clinton’s.


26 posted on 01/09/2016 5:58:02 AM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: Libloather
“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday called Bill Clinton's sexual scandals “totally disgraceful and unacceptable” but said he would not use the former president's infidelities against Hillary Clinton.”

Funny. He just did. Interesting to see him starting to slug harder and seemingly campaign harder. I wonder if someone in the DNC recognizes that they need a viable alternative and have taken the shackles off of his campaign?

27 posted on 01/09/2016 6:18:04 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: grania; jafojeffsurf; Arthur Wildfire! March; Awgie; newfreep; cowboyway; missnry; LZ_Bayonet; ...
Hillary was the brains behind trashing the women, making up stories, sticking detectives on them, and making sure they stayed 'shut-up'. She handled 'bimbo eruptions'... victims talking...

That puts the issue on the table Bernie...

Remember the lie Bill and Hillary put out about Monica when Monica started telling the truth? Hillary said Monica was doing this for attention - that she was 'unstable'... wanted to write a book.

Then the Clinton told the press Monica AND her mother were BOTH mentally unstable - and that Bill Clinton was 'ministering' to Monica out of concern and pity... The press bought the lie and started to run with it when Linda Tripp stepped forward. The Clintons used the power of the state, their War Room, shills in the press, and paid goons in the DNC to attack two powerless women - a mother and daughter... and almost got away with it. The blue dress put an end to the lies about Monica and her mother...

We weren't as lucky. The Clintons attacked conservatives with the lie about the 'vast right wing conspiracy' and stuck the FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center on Conservatives for YEARS... . Like the movie trailer lie...innocent powerless people were damaged for the sake of Clinton lies. The VRWC lies damaged thousands of conservative Americans and encouraged crap like the IRS going after Republicans.

What Hillary did was a whole lot different than just being a passive 'enabler'...

Sanders has standards but he needs to get a clue about what he's dealing with...

28 posted on 01/09/2016 6:34:56 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: GOPJ

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and how the Clintons lied at every turn to save Bildo’s hide.

It is time the record got set straight, and that these two grifters get what they so richly deserve.

If it were not for Linda Tripp and her advice to Monica to save the blue dress, Monica would not have lived to see 1999.

Linda Tripp was the most honorable person in the whole charade, and she paid a terrible price for it.


29 posted on 01/09/2016 6:42:02 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: gusty

Remember a person named Bawney Fwank? He had a boyfriend/pimp in his house & the dems in Massatwoshits kept electing him.


30 posted on 01/09/2016 6:46:48 AM PST by certrtwngnut (Irony,Hillary in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora,N.Y.)
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To: GOPJ

When Hillary raided 900+ FBI files, she did that to make her husband immune from impeachment and serious congressional oversight.

If that isn’t enabling a sexual predator, I don’t know what is.

And she personally profitted from his political reputation — all that crony-money that flooded their coffers.

Not only an enabler, but a corrupt one at that.


31 posted on 01/09/2016 6:54:58 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC 2012 Convention actually booed God three times)
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To: exit82
You're right - Linda Tripp was the most honorable...

Remember how liberals in the press trashed Tripp for being truthful and for having the courage to stand up to the Clintons? It was a low point for the press - they never totally recovered.

Drudge became the most credible news source - and the rest is history.

32 posted on 01/09/2016 6:55:46 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: exit82

Oops. That, too. I’m slipping...am going to have to turn in my Spelling and Grammar Police shield.


33 posted on 01/09/2016 7:17:58 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Libloather

He’ll apologize profusely at the next debate. He always caves.


34 posted on 01/09/2016 7:19:20 AM PST by Old Yeller (Obama is winning the war on terror when you realize he is on the side of the enemy.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
When Hillary raided 900+ FBI files, she did that to make her husband immune from impeachment and serious congressional oversight. If that isn’t enabling a sexual predator, I don’t know what is.

You're right - she's benefited from the enabling... and YOU give insight into why corrupt democrats want the NSA spying on American citizens...and Congress... and Israel. More 'files' for the creepy totalitarian democrats.

35 posted on 01/09/2016 7:27:36 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: GOPJ

Wikileaks probably exposed some of what you mention —

‘... corrupt democrats want the NSA spying on American citizens...and Congress... and Israel. More ‘files’ for the creepy totalitarian democrats.’


36 posted on 01/09/2016 7:47:47 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC 2012 Convention actually booed God three times)
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To: Libloather
"I am not going to get into the personal stuff," Sanders said...

It isn't "personal stuff" - it's malfeasance in office, enabled and abetted by the current candidate.

37 posted on 01/09/2016 8:06:33 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Mr. Jeeves

It isn’t “infidelities’. Who cares if Bill Clinton cheats on his wife? It’s hardly a marriage as most of us would understand it anyway.
The problem is RAPE, abuse of power for sexual favors, and intimidation of victims.
The last of these was coordinated by Hillary herself.

Every time the mainstream media says ‘infidelities’ they need to be corrected.


38 posted on 01/09/2016 10:32:53 AM PST by conejo99
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To: Libloather

Sanders, you ignorant piece of crap, it is *not* about what Bill the lounge lizard did; it is about the Hildabeast covering it up by destroying his victims.

(I know you have to be flat-out *STOOPIT* to be a socialist against all the evidence, but fer cryin’ out loud, don’t your ears still work?)


39 posted on 01/09/2016 1:56:20 PM PST by Peet (I'd say to hell with the media, but hell doesn't want them either.)
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To: certrtwngnut

Remember a person named Bawney Fwank? He had a boyfriend/pimp in his house & the dems in Massatwoshits kept electing him.

-————— ——————— -——————— -——————

Heck, wngnut, Dead Ted (now sober 6 1/2 years) killed a woman and Massholes re-elected him until the evil ate his brain away. (Hey, I *am* a Masshole so I can say that!)


40 posted on 01/09/2016 2:07:03 PM PST by Peet (I'd say to hell with the media, but hell doesn't want them either.)
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