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In reply to the discussion: Monica fa-chrissakes Lewisnky is back in the news again. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)19. A good BJ never dies,
but I really wish THAT one would just fade away.
I wonder if they will drag out the Blue Dress?
I believe we can COUNT on it if Hillary is the nominee.
Presidential Politics long ago became a Media Driven HomeComing Court Event,
and NOT about The ISSUES.
Control of the presidential debates has been a ground of struggle for more than two decades. The role was filled by the nonpartisan League of Women Voters (LWV) civic organization in 1976, 1980 and 1984. In 1987, the LWV withdrew from debate sponsorship, in protest of the major party candidates attempting to dictate nearly every aspect of how the debates were conducted. On October 2, 1988, the LWV's 14 trustees voted unanimously to pull out of the debates, and on October 3 they issued a press release:
[font size=3]" The League of Women Voters is withdrawing sponsorship of the presidential debates...because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become clear to us that the candidates' organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public."[/font]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates
[font size=3]" The League of Women Voters is withdrawing sponsorship of the presidential debates...because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become clear to us that the candidates' organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public."[/font]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates
"the hoodwinking of the American public"
I have not seen a more apt description of Corporate Duopoly Politics.
In 2012, MSNBC Debate Analysis featured a category called "Best Zingers" to help America decide who "won" the debate.
This criteria was also heavily featured at DU.
I'm glad I'm old and grow my own food.
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Follow the money, see if this old, stale story is the reason. I bet she's the front of a PR campaign
ancianita
May 2014
#13
Check the timing of this. CNN has already put the thought in the viewers teeny brains:
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#15
CNN is not the only network to ask that question. MSNBC did it too, this mid-morning. I
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2014
#35
Except Tyler Clementi did nothing to deserve his fate. Mz Lewinsky knew Bill Clinton was a married
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#14
Linda Tripp. Haven't heard from her since she collected her bag full of dirty money & got a nose job
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#36
Yes of course. However Bill isn't the one out toting a book & claiming how he was used by everyone.
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#61
This isn't about fuckin' Lewinsky, Pitt. It's about making Dems ashamed of Clinton as their man
ancianita
May 2014
#11
I didn't even know she had a middle name and who gives their kid a name like that?
yellowcanine
May 2014
#21
Is that a statement in the form of a question? As far as I know they arent related.
rhett o rick
May 2014
#78
Its all in Papa Bush's plan. Jeb heralds in The New (Third Reich) World Order.
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#26
Wonder how the GOP coughed up for her reappearance. ( IN LEW)insky of Benghazi, maybe? nt
kelliekat44
May 2014
#24
What she was involved in happens millions of times a day! Why is this still a big deal?
951-Riverside
May 2014
#32
20-25 years is about the life cycle for shit to go from new, to tiresome, to forgotten, to "retro"
Warren DeMontague
May 2014
#42
Will. They tried this shit 20 years ago. Hillary did not have any relations with
madinmaryland
May 2014
#45
Puh-leeze. ML was an adult who flashed her thong at an older man (she had had an affair with a
WinkyDink
May 2014
#82
What double standard? No one here is cannonizing sainthood upon Bill Clinton.
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#64
TPP and decades of warmongering "muscular liberalism" is what should do her in!
MisterP
May 2014
#71
So you're willing to let this dispicable woman drive one of our viable candidates off the ticket.
Auntie Bush
May 2014
#62