From: barfingyak@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 4, 2019 at 2:40:02 PM UTC-5, ed...@post.com wrote:   
   > During his 1992 campaign for the presidency, Bill Clinton was    
   > fond of promising America, “You get two for the price of one,”    
   > indicating Hillary Clinton would act as his co-president.   
   >    
   > But the nation got much more than it bargained for, as the top    
   > power couple brought a load of baggage with them into the White    
   > House from their days in Arkansas.   
   >    
   > After the Clintons moved into the presidential mansion, the    
   > political scandals multiplied – from use of the IRS and FBI to    
   > target political opponents to stalking and harassing subjects of    
   > Bill Clinton’s sexual advances and even attempts to loot    
   > taxpayer-funded items from the White House. Americans also    
   > witnessed capers such as Travelgate, Chinagate, Filegate and    
   > Pardongate.   
   >    
   > Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades and subsequent impeachment by    
   > the U.S. House of Representatives on charges of perjury and    
   > obstruction of justice consumed more than a year of American    
   > public life and bitterly divided the nation.   
   >    
   > In the years since the memorable Clinton presidency, Hillary has    
   > brought America Emailgate and the Benghazi scandal, among    
   > others. New developments in the Clinton Foundation scandals    
   > emerges almost daily.   
   >    
   > Now, it’s Hillary’s “turn” to be president, according to her    
   > Democrat supporters.   
   >    
   > But in 2015, America is still apparently suffering from “Clinton    
   > fatigue.” Results from a Quinnipiac poll published in April    
   > revealed between 49 and 56 percent of voters in three    
   > significant swing states – Colorado, Virginia and Iowa – believe    
   > Hillary is neither honest nor trustworthy.   
   >    
   > Even former California Democratic Party Chairman Bill Press told    
   > WND that controversies surrounding Hillary should convince    
   > members of his own party an uncontested coronation of Clinton as    
   > the party’s 2016 nominee for the White House is a very risky    
   > idea and should encourage other Democrats to throw their hats in    
   > the ring.   
   >    
   > Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican candidate for president, said    
   > Sunday he believes voters will reject Hillary because of the    
   > “cloud of constant scandal she brings to the political process.”   
   >    
   > Rubio told Fox News Sunday, “Unfortunately, both under her    
   > husband’s presidency, her time in the Department of State, her    
   > campaign for the president last time and even now, there seems    
   > to be this cloud of constant scandal and things that distract us    
   > from the core issues of the moment.”   
   >    
   > Hillary’s “drama” could become a distraction, Rubio warned, at a    
   > time when the stakes are high for America in the 2016 election.   
   >    
   > “I just think that at this hinge moment in our history, where we    
   > are asked to make a transition from the past into this new    
   > future, with all the challenges and the opportunities of our    
   > time that we really – the American people are not at a point now    
   > where they are going to be supportive of more drama surrounding    
   > the political process,” he said.   
   >    
   > In 2003, ABC News’ Barbara Walters referenced numerous Clinton    
   > scandals from Whitewater to Travelgate and the death of Hillary    
   > law partner Vince Foster in an interview with then-Sen. Clinton.   
   >    
   > Walters asked Hillary, “How did you get in this mess where your    
   > whole credibility is being questioned?”   
   >    
   > Hillary’s response: “Oh, I ask myself that every day, Barbara,    
   > because it’s very surprising and confusing to me.”   
   >    
   > With Hillary making another run for president, don’t get caught    
   > up in the lies and spin! In “Hillary Unhinged: In Her Own    
   > Words,” find out who the true Hillary is with this raw and    
   > humorous collection of quotes that pitilessly underscores her    
   > hypocrisy   
   >    
   > With the prospect of another “two-for-one” Clinton presidency    
   > looming, is America ready for a repeat of the Bill and Hillary    
   > “drama” in the White House?   
   >    
   > If, as psychologists say, “The best predictor of future behavior    
   > is past behavior,” then a fresh look at the top 20 scandals    
   > involving Hillary is in order.   
   >    
   > 17) Hillary laughs about defending child rapist   
   >    
   > Hillary Clinton in 1975, the year she defended 41-year-old    
   > Thomas Alfred Taylor, who had been accused of raping a 12-year-   
   > old child   
   >    
   > As WND reported, Hillary explained her defense of a child-rape    
   > suspect as just part of the job. But she hasn’t explained her    
   > laughing about his passing of a lie-detector test, which    
   > “destroyed” her faith in such evaluations.   
   >    
   > “Once I was appointed I fulfilled that obligation,” she said in    
   > an interview with Mumsnet, a U.K. community of parents providing    
   > and sharing information on a variety of subjects and issues.   
   >    
   > In the video she is asked, “As a lawyer, you defended the rapist    
   > of a 12-year-old girl, calling the victim ’emotionally unstable’    
   > and saying that girls have a tendency to ‘exaggerate or    
   > romanticize sexual experiences especially when they come from    
   > disorganized families.'”   
   >    
   > Comments?   
   >    
   > Clinton said: “When I was a 27-year-old attorney doing legal aid    
   > work at the law school where I taught in Fayetteville, Arkansas,    
   > I was appointed by the local judge to represent a criminal    
   > defendant accused of rape. I asked to be relieved of that    
   > responsibility. But I was not and I had a professional duty to    
   > represent my client to the best of my ability, which I did.   
   >    
   > “He later pled guilty to a lesser included offense. When you’re    
   > a lawyer you often don’t have the choice as to who you will    
   > represent, and by the very nature of criminal law there will be    
   > those who you represent you don’t approve of, but at least in    
   > our system, you have an obligation and once I was appointed, I    
   > fulfilled that obligation.”   
   >    
   > However, she did not address the reports of unearthed recordings    
   > in which she almost boasts of knowing of her client’s guilt and    
   > laughing about the case. The tapes reveal her discussing the    
   > case of Thomas Alfred Taylor, then 41, who was accused of raping    
   > a 12-year-old in Springdale, Arkansas, on May 10, 1975.   
   >    
   > “It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,”    
   > Clinton said on the tape. “This guy was accused of raping a 12-   
      
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