[History] Ten Years On: The Clinton Impeachment

Androsphinx · Post by **Androsphinx** » 2008-01-15 06:19pm

Ten years ago this week, This story broke on the Drudge Report. The next day, we had her name - Monica Lewinsky.

The first news story I ever read on the internet was a short piece that weekend from the BBC, which ran thusly.

Ten years later, The Times has caught up with some of the old players.

Over here, we had a week of gleeful schardenfreude before people realised that this was being taken very seriously in Washington. And the story just kept on going. To borrow an analogy, "it was like a train wreck. Horrific, brutal, but you couldn't take your eyes off it".

Before he became a right-wing nut-blog, Mark Steyn had some of the funniest, pun-filled commentary on the whole sorry business.

The wikipedia article has no major flaws that I can immediately see. Let the reminisences being!

Schuyler Colfax · Post by **Schuyler Colfax** » 2008-01-15 07:57pm

Damn, I was only 5 when this story broke out so I didn't exactly know the full extent of the story until say 5 years later.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2008-01-15 07:58pm

Honestly, folks, I don't know about you, but if *I* had a cum-stain on a dress, that baby hits the washing machine ASAP. It does NOT get kept to be paraded out in front of God and Public months later.

The whole mess was a SetUp.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2008-01-15 08:00pm

After years and years of trying to manufacture scandal, one stuck. They proceeded to do so much damage people thought electing Dubya was a good idea.

Vaporous · Post by **Vaporous** » 2008-01-15 08:34pm

I remember that, as a nine year old, I thought that making a big deal about what the president did when he wasn't "presidenting" (ie, shit that has nothing to do with job performance) was a sort of silly game adults liked to play when they were bored, like how my friends and I would beat the shit out of each other when we had nothing better to do with our time.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2008-01-15 09:35pm

Didn't you know that Hilary Clinton was a lesbian, but slept with Vince Foster who was murdered by the Clintons so as to cover up Whitewaterly, the Clintons sold to the Chinese state and military secrets, were influenced in state policy, turned on his own voter base and regularly had sex parties with teenage high-school kids?

Oh.... And Monica blew him and had a cigar.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2008-01-15 11:24pm

I remember this, I was on vacation with my mother when it was on the news. I asked my mom what was going on, she told me. I tried very hard to understand why it was anybody's business what the President did during his free time. My mother mumbled something about Americans having hang-ups over such things. I still don't quite understand why it was anybody's business. In fact, Clinton should have taken that route. The Republitards keep harping about it to this day, "He lied about it!" Truth is, he did, and that was a poorly calculated move. He should have said, "That is nobody's business but my own." Hell, better idea, not say shit, have the Press Secretary say it for him.

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2008-01-16 07:23am

Get a blowjob in the White House? IMPEACH!

Get the US into the most fucked up military situation in recent history?

Nah, stay the course!!!!

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2008-01-16 11:23am

I was in high school when this came out......

I still remember it well, I asked two simple question. "Why from her? Was there no one better looking there at the time?"

I mean..the man got a hummer in the oval office, honestly, none of the public's business - considering the shit most other politicians do, it was pretty tame. I wish I could have gotten a hummer in the oval office. The only thing I had a problem with faulted him with was WHO he got the hummer from.

I mean, you're the most powerful man in the free world (just about), you have the length and breadth of women to choose from.....why the fuck would you chose Monica Lewinski?

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2008-01-16 01:05pm

Adrian Laguna wrote:I remember this, I was on vacation with my mother when it was on the news. I asked my mom what was going on, she told me. I tried very hard to understand why it was anybody's business what the President did during his free time. My mother mumbled something about Americans having hang-ups over such things. I still don't quite understand why it was anybody's business. In fact, Clinton should have taken that route. The Republitards keep harping about it to this day, "He lied about it!" Truth is, he did, and that was a poorly calculated move. He should have said, "That is nobody's business but my own." Hell, better idea, not say shit, have the Press Secretary say it for him.

He probably could have just ignored it too. After all, I'm wondered if there was anyone at the time who was honestly shocked that the President got a blowjob from an intern, as if an intern giving someone a blowjob is some earthshatteringly rare and unlikely event. He's the Chief Executive. If you have any sense, you kind of expect men with power to be nailing someone. Men with political ambition very often take the whole "Father of their Country" thing somewhat more literally than most, it's part of the psychological profile.

Hell, given all the scandals coming out of Washington, the fact that the person giving the blowjob was an adult still breathing woman is positively commendable. At this point, it seems like it's only a scandal if it's a live boy or a dead woman.

Slacker · Post by **Slacker** » 2008-01-17 12:02pm

God, I can't believe it's already ten years. Happier times for the country, that's for sure. I tip my cap in Clinton's general direction.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2008-01-17 06:51pm

Chris OFarrell wrote:Get a blowjob in the White House? IMPEACH!

Get the US into the most fucked up military situation in recent history?

Nah, stay the course!!!!

The thing is, when Bill Clinton got a blowjob, that was just something Bill Clinton the man did, so it was okay to get angry about it. Iraq, on the other hand, was something America did, albeit under orders from the President. You can't get angry about that because if you did you'd be admitting that America is capable of doing wrong, which every good mom-and-apple-pie-loving patriot knows is just not true.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2008-01-17 08:24pm

God, you people are so ignorant and stupid! Don't you know that this had absolutely nothing to do with Clinton getting his dick sucked (Oh, and the cigar thing, remember that? And the Pizza? And that giant cum stain? Oh, and how he fucks women on his free time, rather than men in airport bathrooms and congressional pages!? That filthy communist fuck!) by a Jew (a fat, ugly, big-nosed Christ-killing JEW) on Easter, and everything to do with the fact that he lied to a Grand Jury and obstructed justice?

That's why he was impeached, and should have been thrown out of office. And that's why Scooter Libby doing the exact same thing over an act of treason is no big deal and is just a big manufactured scandal to make the President look bad!

Androsphinx · Post by **Androsphinx** » 2008-01-17 08:32pm

Flagg wrote:(Oh, and the cigar thing, remember that?

I've spent ten years trying to forget, thank you very much. I just keep thinking of Hillary instead of Monica whenever it gets mentioned.

LMSx · Post by **LMSx** » 2008-01-17 09:51pm

It was mainly Clinton's fault for not coming out on day one and saying "whatever happened, this is between me and my wife", but the ultimate pleasure I get from all this is that the day Bill Clinton was impeached, his approval ratings were around 70%, in the next few days he jumped to 73%, higher then Reagan ever had.

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Worked out well for the Republicans, didn't it? It's red-meat for the hardcore base, but the clear majority of Americans had no interest in holding this against Clinton. Despite what our corrupt media wants to believe.