America thanks you Monica Lewinsky!

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24. Manny didn't hold Ms. Lewinsky responsible or call her a "demon"

He referred to Erskine Bowles as a demon. And by the way, I also am a senior, and I completely agree with your description of Bill Clinton's 99.9% responsibility re the involvement w/Lewinsky. Anyone who trashes Lewinsky for this would be as pathetic as the wife of LA Clippers billionaire owner Sterling whining how powerful, self-made, billionaire men are exploited by penniless, albeit attractive, young women. I suggest that the majority of women who agree with Ms. Clinton's decisions to forgive/enable Bill's serial adulteries (1) have never suffered the pain of being betrayed by a spouse/partner they loved and/or (2) are women who have been cheated on by a partner/spouse but have chosen to live with the humiliation for economic, familial/children or social status reasons.

It was Hillary Clinton who trashed Lewinsky, not Manny.

In the amazing cache of documents recently released by the University of Arkansas, of contemporaneous records kept by Ms. Clinton's "longtime friend and close confident", political science professor, Diane Blair, we read how Ms. Clinton rationalized and defended her husband's then-latest adultery, while ridiculing the young intern.

Blair’s writings are made up of notes and diary entries based on communication the former political science professor who died in 2000 had with Mrs. Clinton.

“It was a lapse, but she says to his credit he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a 'narcissistic loony toon'; but it was beyond control," Blair wrote about a conversation she had with Clinton on September 9, 1998, during the height of the Lewinsky scandal that led to her husband’s impeachment.

Blair went on to write that Hillary Clinton had suggested her husband had made the mistake with Lewinsky because of the personal toll the deaths of his mother, her father, and their friend Vince Foster had taken on him while "the ugly forces started making up hateful things about them, pounding on them."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/17/politics/diane-blair-hillary-clinton-documents/

But you know, I agree that we all should thank Ms. Lewinsky for the unintended consequence of derailing Clinton/Bowles early attempt to privatize SS. She's paid a terrible price for what at her age should have been a youthful indiscretion. What Manny's OP points out to me, is some significant good did come out of it, i.e, the survival of social security as a government program, not a privatized cash cow for investment bankers.