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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Nov 21, 2017, 06:05 PM Nov 2017

If were retrying Bill Clinton, lets stick to facts

Whenever charges of sexual misconduct shoot through the air, an arrow or three hit Bill Clinton. That’s inevitable, given his history of philandering capped by the notorious Oval Office tryst with Monica Lewinsky.

What was not inevitable, but surprising, is the crush of liberals swallowing whole a fishy story that Clinton raped a woman.

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The demand that any woman’s claim of rape be automatically believed can have tragic consequences. How many black men have been lynched on false charges of raping white women?

Make no mistake. Any charge of rape must be seriously investigated. Prosecuting sex crimes does pose a special set of difficulties. It doesn’t follow, however, that the woman’s statement is beyond scrutiny.

We cannot know for sure whether Clinton physically attacked Broaddrick. We do know that independent counsel Ken Starr included her claims in his microscopic investigation of Clinton’s sexual transgressions. His report deemed the findings on the Broaddrick case to be “inconclusive.”

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http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/harrop-if-were-retrying-bill-clinton-lets-stick-to-facts/

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If were retrying Bill Clinton, lets stick to facts (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 OP
I cannot re-litigate Bill Clinton. Too many years listening to the GOP nonsense. nt Irish_Dem Nov 2017 #1
Decades later, Bill's horndoggery is still an issue BeyondGeography Nov 2017 #2
More so than Trump or Roy Moore? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 #4
Smearing their political opponents agincourt Nov 2017 #3
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