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TRUMP TAPES AND CLINTON MORALS
Frontpagemag.com ^ | October 12, 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 10/12/2016 3:45:02 AM PDT by Biggirl

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

“Even presidents have private lives. It is time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life,” President Clinton whined.

It was the late hot summer of ’98 and the man dubbed “Slick Willie,” the nickname he claimed to dislike the most, was facing the prospect of becoming the first president to be successfully impeached.

These days the Clintons seem to have changed their minds about whether presidents should have private lives that ought to be pried into. So did the media, which back then insisted that it was “just sex,” but has belatedly decided that a president’s sexual conduct ought to be subject to scrutiny after all. But then again double standards are its stock in trade. They always have been.

Bill’s bedroom is off limits, but Trump’s isn’t.

Unable to run on national security, the Clintons want to run on the same subject that they once eschewed. And they want Trump’s sex life to be up for public debate, but not Bill’s.

The media has joined in this chorus which insists that when Trump mentions Bill’s rapes, he’s climbing into the “gutter,” but that when Hillary references Trump’s tape, she’s taking the “high ground.”

How can the same subject be both the gutter and the high ground? It’s either one or the other.

Meanwhile the clock to the next Islamic terror attack goes on ticking.

Back in ‘98 Bill Clinton complained, “Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do. Now it is time, in fact, it is past time to move on,” he added. “We have important work to do -- real opportunities to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face.”

These days the Clintons don’t want to move on. They want to discuss the Trump tape as often as possible. Why? Because they don’t want to deal with what the Clintons did move on to.

Hours before 9/11, Bill Clinton was giving a speech in Australia and boasted that he could have gotten Osama bin Laden, but chose not to because of the collateral damage in Kandahar.

“I nearly got him. And I could have killed him,” he admitted.

The planned airstrike had been vetoed in late December ’98. Congress had postponed debate on impeachment a few days earlier to allow Bill Clinton to bomb Iraq in peace. The raids accomplished little except to distract from the impeachment debate and from his refusal to take out Osama bin Laden.

Americans watching every salacious detail of the Lewinsky affair laid out for them were focusing on the wrong thing. In early August, Al Qaeda had carried out the bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. This attack was a major signpost on the road to 9/11. But like the World Trade Center bombing and the Benghazi attack, the Clintons had miserably failed in the face of Islamic terror.

Back in ’98, Bill Clinton insisted that his sex life didn’t matter compared to “security matters.” Now the Clintons would like us to believe that Trump’s sex life matters more than ISIS.

The Clintons have cost the lives of thousands of Americans and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world with their approach to “security matters.” The real question may be how many more lives, especially American lives, their way of doing things will cost.

Hillary Clinton is determined to dump massive numbers of Syrian Muslim migrants in this country despite the terror risk. She has doubled down on the destructive policies that led to the rise of ISIS.

It’s not hard to imagine a speech by yet another President Clinton discussing how she could have gotten the man behind the next Islamic terror threat, but chose not to do anything.

The question is whether voters can take the time to look past the flood of salacious material in the media. Europe has seen a wave of major attacks. It’s only a matter of time until an attack on a larger scale than the Pulse massacre in Florida, in which an ISIS Muslim killed 49 people, takes place.

Despite their ugly past, the Clintons have decided to run for a third term on their record as moral paragons. Hillary’s Role Models ad urged voters to protect their children from the bad influence of a President Trump. "Our children are watching. What example will we set for them?" it asked.

At the second debate, she also warned that our children were watching.

Hillary’s concern for what children watch politicians do on television is a little belated. It wasn’t that long ago that parents were sending their children out of the room when Bill’s affairs were being discussed.

And these days they are again.

Hillary would have as much luck running on her honesty or foreign policy track record as on being a role model for the children. Having the Clintons as role models for children should be considered child abuse.

But Bill Clinton was just doing his best JFK impression. And compared to the antics of the Kennedys, he looked like a saint. At least we don’t know of a single woman whom he actually murdered.

And here was Ted Kennedy at his best. “The six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair… Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers.”

This wasn’t talk on a tape. It happened. And Ted went on to be praised as a champion of women’s rights.

It’s a little bizarre that at this late date, the Democrats have decided to become the guardians of our moral values. Or that the Clintons of all people would try to fill those shoes.

But discussing Trump’s tape is a nice distraction from addressing the role that Hillary’s support for the Arab Spring played in the rise of ISIS, the mass kidnapping and rape of Yazidi women by Islamic Jihadists, the mass sexual assaults against women in Germany perpetrated by Muslim refugees, including those from Hillary’s Arab Spring, and the men and women who died here on September 11.

Back in ’98, Bill Clinton claimed that his personal life had to be off limits so that he could protect our national life. He got what he wanted and he failed to protect our national life. Having abandoned any sense of responsibility to our national life, the Clintons want to talk about the values of personal life.

But if voters want paragons of morality in personal life, why would they turn to the Clintons? And if they want someone to protect the national life, why would they turn to the Clintons?

If they want a superpredator who waged a private war on women, they have the Clintons. And if they want someone who will let the next 9/11 happen, they also have the Clintons.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; morals; trump

1 posted on 10/12/2016 3:45:04 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

2 posted on 10/12/2016 3:53:35 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee; Biggirl
Daniel Greenflield mentions a talk by Bill Clinton 10 September 2001. Here is the recording:

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO!! Bill Clinton On Sept. 10, 2001: ‘I Could Have KILLED’ Bin Laden But I Did'nt!!

3 posted on 10/12/2016 4:06:20 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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“and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do.”

Bill said that. He, and Trump, could also ask the public to forgive him. Has Trump done that?


4 posted on 10/12/2016 4:29:03 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Biggirl
And this morning the media put president Teabagger feces flinger on television to criticize others for their language.
5 posted on 10/12/2016 4:37:14 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Biggirl
Back in ’98, Bill Clinton insisted that his sex life didn’t matter compared to “security matters.” Now the Clintons would like us to believe that Trump’s sex life matters more than ISIS.

Well the Clintons are in luck - the little effers at the New York Times & MSM will turn on a dime to defend whatever drops from the mouths of Bill and Hilly...

6 posted on 10/12/2016 5:10:05 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Actions speak louder than words." Juanita Broaddrick on the current Trump dust-up...)
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To: Travis McGee

The Sauds are backing ISIS, right?


7 posted on 10/12/2016 5:11:06 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Actions speak louder than words." Juanita Broaddrick on the current Trump dust-up...)
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To: cymbeline

Bill said that. He, and Trump, could also ask the public to forgive him. Has Trump done that?

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I’m part of that “public” and Trump has done nothing for me to “forgive” him for.

If he ever pulls multiple rapes, like Clinton....Maybe.


8 posted on 10/12/2016 7:54:48 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: GOPJ

Remember when we were told over and over by way of an excuse that Bubba Clinton could compartmentalize all parts of his life, and his assaults on and dalliances with women didn’t affect the job he was doing as president? Remember all the feminists who gave Bubba Clinton a “one free grope” pass? Why don’t these excuses apply to Donald Trump, who hasn’t even assaulted or raped a woman as Bubba has done repeatedly?


9 posted on 10/12/2016 7:56:13 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Biggirl

I want Trump to buy the databases that marketers, Cruz, Obama, etc., buy to target their audiences. Find the names of the pundits, politicians, and “journalists” who are condemning the tape continually.

Trump doesn’t even have to buy the databases; they’re for sale to anyone. Have a PAC buy them. Mine the data, filtering to get the names of Dems and MSM and publishing the books they’ve bought, and movies they’ve seen, over the last 11 years.

If they paid via credit card, or used a store’s discount card, to make purchases, the info is out there.


10 posted on 10/12/2016 8:09:43 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Graybeard58

“I’m part of that “public” and Trump has done nothing for me to “forgive” him for.”

Ok, you don’t need him to ask for forgiveness.

I think a lot of people out there would be have an improved impression of him if he were to ask for forgiveness. It’s a Godly thing to do.


11 posted on 10/12/2016 9:15:37 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Cecily
Remember when we were told over and over by way of an excuse that Bubba Clinton could compartmentalize all parts of his life, and his assaults on and dalliances with women didn’t affect the job he was doing as president? Remember all the feminists who gave Bubba Clinton a “one free grope” pass? Why don’t these excuses apply to Donald Trump, who hasn’t even assaulted or raped a woman as Bubba has done repeatedly?

Liberal elites in the UN rape young children and the press doesn't say squat. Democrats don't object when gay men are thrown off buildings in the ME... cause the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation get BIG MONEY from the ME... Bill flies the world with a known pedophile and the elites and their butt boys in the press don't give a damn. No outrage on the View... no siree...

Clinton raped and abused women and the press yawned.

Odd? No, I can assure you 'elites' don't care about Trump's 'sex talk'... They are using this as a way to play the yokels against each other.

If the witch is elected Bill Clinton will rape and torture anyone he wants to... and the boys in the press will say, 'it's only about sex' ... AGAIN.

It's not the morality - they don't care if children are raped - it - or gays thrown off roofs... 's a desire to have their side in power. And us destroyed. The only good thing to come out of this will be the total destruction of the illusion of a free press... The lie that 'journalists' are decent human beings will finally end. Yes, Hillary will have control over her 'quotes' not just at the vile New York Times but at every so called 'newspaper'... Newspapers will be subsidized by the State - as all 'arms of propaganda' are in totalitarian hellholes.

Yes, we can fight the thugs... but it's going to be much harder with 100 million new 'immigrants' from violent 3rd world hellholes... those people will be dependent on Democrats and told traditional Americans are the enemy. They'll be more than willing to rough up the natives - at which point Hillary and Billy will (in the name of 'safety' - step up the power of the Secret Police (formerly called the CIA and FBI...) to go after their political enemies.

We've seen this movie before - we know how it ends)

Iran did the same trick when their 'revolutionary guard' was uncomfortable beating up young Iranian students... they just brought in goons from other countries with no connections to the young people.. Hillary and her rapist husband will do the same.

12 posted on 10/12/2016 9:25:15 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Actions speak louder than words." Juanita Broaddrick on the current Ttrump dust-up...)
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