Saturday Politics : Bill's History with Women as the Democrat Effort to Destroy The GOP

Saturday Politics is sometimes about trying to destroy the Republican Party while cosseting the sins of Democrats. ~~~~~~ The White House has sent a warning to Donald Trump Thursday : Attacking Michelle Obama is off limits. The first lady blasted Trump without actually naming him during a campaign speech for Hillary Clinton on Thursday. The White House followed up with its own message for the Trump. Politico reported that principal deputy White House press secretary Eric Schultz said on Air Force One : "I can't think of a bolder way for Donald Trump to lose even more standing than he already has than by engaging the first lady of the United States." During a Clinton rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Michelle Obama addressed the recently released audio of sexual comments Trump made in 2005. ~~~~~~ Message to The White House and Michell : "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Harry Truman, Democrat President, 1946-1952. ~~~~~~ That may seem insensitive, but two first ladies have recently decided to be co-president, acting and speaking as if they had actually been elected by the American people and have an official role to play. The two -- Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. Most first ladies have chosen to be active in more refined areas. Ladybird Johnson worked to beautify America with flowers and plants. Nancy Reagan led a campaign to try to stop drug use by young people : "Just Say No." Laura Bush focused on education and reading. All good work and helpful. But, Michelle Obama has, like Hillary Clinton when she was first lady, chosen to be a political arm for her husband's agenda. And, when anyone steps into the arena of presidential politics, they should be prepared for what inevitably follows -- criticism, attacks, and challenges to their integrity and honesty. So, Michelle, if you want to attack Donald Trump, that is your right. But, when you do, be prepared for the hot exchanges that quickly follow. That the White House, no doubt instructed by Barack, tried to put a shield around your factually inaccurate and purely political commentary, is laughable. If you don't want to be sullied by the dirt that your Democrat Party is using to try to destroy Donald Trump, go back to the cleaner soil in your vegetable garden. ~~~~~~ Donald Trump called the tape comments "locker room talk." Since the tape was made public last Friday, several women have come forward and claimed Trump sexually assaulted them, but no proof has emerged the support their stories and some are past their statute of limitations. Melania Trump's lawyer has sent a letter to Natasha Stoynoff, who says the GOP presidential nominee pushed her against a wall and forcibly kissed her in 2005 during an interview at his Florida resort, asking for a retraction and saying that Mrs. Trump does not know Stoynoff and never invited her to the Trump apartment in Trump Towers. Donald Trump was equally direct : "Whoever she is, wherever she comes from, the stories are total fiction. They are 100 % made up. They never happened. They never would happen," he said at the rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. ~~~~~~ The allegations published by the New York Times this week printing the stories of two women who accuse Trump of “inappropriate touching.” occurred 11 and 35 years ago in New York. Both cases are beyond the state's statute of limitations. Buzzfeed published a story of Trump saying on the Howard Stern show he walked into dressing rooms at the Miss USA pageant, as well as the accusations of five Miss Teen USA pageant contestants who accused him of doing just that. But, Buzzfeed News also reported that nearly a dozen women who would have been in the dressing room did not see Trump, and “some” believe he could not have been there. Former Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean Boller has defended Trump. ~~~~~~ The same news media have been choosy, however, with the sexual assault accusations against top political figures they are willing to report on and the victims they implicitly believe and sympathize with. Hillary Clinton's husband and fellow campaigner, former Democrat President Bill Clinton, has far more egregious rape charges levied against him than the uinsupported charges of sexual assault being brought against Republican candidate Donald Trump. Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence said on CBS This Morning on Friday : “What he has made clear is that was talk, regrettable talk on his part, but that there were no actions and that he categorically denied these latest unsubstantiated allegations. Just stay tuned, I know that there is more information that is going to be coming out that will back his claims that this is all categorically false.” With repeated media demands that Trump prove he is innocent, the Trump campaign is put in a difficult position by the media : It has to attempt to “prove a negative” -- that something did not take place -- all while respecting the sensitive nature of addressing accusations from sexual assault and groping accusers. While sliding over her President husband's own sulled past, Hillary Clinton has stated during her campaign: “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” Hillary later added, "until she is proven to have lied." While the news media has glided past the accusations against Bill Clinton, several mainsteam media networks have refused to report aggressively on the Clinton Foundation's activities -- including taking contributions from authoritarian and terrorist-funding regimes, which often treat women as chattels. In a number of cases, Hillary Clinton's State Department authorized weapons export clearances to these authoritarian donor nations -- even chemical and biological weapons. A Wikileaks release of hacked emails shows that Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta acknowledges that two Clinton Foundation donor nations -- Qatar and Saudi Arabia -- are funders of the terrorist group ISIS. But, Mike Pence would not be silenced l: “At the time that many in the national media are chasing after these unsubstantiated allegations, it’s remarkable to me that they continue to ignore the hard evidence that’s flowing out of Hillary Clinton’s years as Secretary of State and the Clinton Foundation." ~~~~~~ Even Ben Carson hqs gotten into the fray. He asked MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to turn off BBC reporter Katty Kay’s microphone during a heated fight in which Dr. Carson butted heads with nearly every member of the show’s panel. He reacted during Friday morning’s show when Kay pressed him about whether he believed the women accusing Trump of groping them, cutting her off. Carson tried to answer : "That's your characterization because you need to characterize it that way to make me the bad guy." When Kay protested, he cut her off again. Scarborough challenged Carson : “Why can’t you just give a straight answer?” Carson hit back : "Why don't you just listen to what I'm telling you?" ~~~~~~ Despite all this talk of sexual harassment, on Friday, Newsmax published the latest Rasmussen poll taken on October 11 - 13, after the tape was released. It finds that Donald Trump has a slight lead over Hillary Clinton : Trump: 43%; Clinton: 41%. On Monday, Clinton held a seven-point lead over Trump 45% to 38%. The numbers dropped notably after voters started analyzing Sunday night's debate. Her lead dropped to five and four points on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. On Thursday, Trump edged past the Democratic candidate. The survey also showed that of the 87% of voters who have made up their minds how they'll vote, 48% chose Trump, while 46% chose Clinton. Among those who said they could still change their minds : Trump 37%; Clinton: 36%. The margin of sampling error is +/- 2.5%. So, the effort to destroy the GOP along with Donald Trump has not yet succeeded. ~~~~~~ And, dear readers, in the interest of honest an open journalism; let's end this zeek with a list of all the settled and unsettled sexual assault allegations against former President Bill Clinton. Here is a complete list of all of his accusers. It's long so be patient. (1). Juanita Broaddrick -- In 1978 Juanita Broaddrick first met Bill Clinton, who was then the Arkansas attorney general. She was working at a nursing home she had started when Clinton visited her workplace during a campaignstop. Broaddrick says Clinton told her to call his campaign office when she was visiting Little Rock, which she did. She claims they met in a hotel coffee shop, but Clinton complained of reporters in the lobby and suggested they go to her hotel room. After a few minutes of chatting, Broaddrick alleges Clinton started kissing her. She first told her story to the Washington Post in 1999 : She resisted his advances, she said, but soon he pulled her back onto the bed and forcibly had sex with her. She said she did not scream because everything happened so quickly. Her upper lip was bruised and swollen after the encounter because, she said, he had grabbed onto it with his mouth. "The last thing he said to me was, ‘You better get some ice for that.’ And he put on his sunglasses and walked out the door,” she recalled. Broaddrick, now 73, said she avoided the public spotlight for years as Clinton's enemies urged her to go public. “It was a horrible, horrible experience and I just wanted it to go away,” she said. (2). Kathleen Willey -- Willey, 70, unloaded her explosive claims in a 1998 interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” program with Mike Bradley : Willey said Clinton had tried to kiss her, touched her breasts and put her hand on his genitals when the two of them were alone. Clinton has always denied the allegations. Willey has been actively tweeting against Hillary Clinton. (3). Paula Jones -- she was working as an Arkansas state employee in 1991 when she claims Bill Clinton sexually harassed her while he was serving as governor and then defamed her when she went public in 1994. According to Jones, the then-Governor Clinton had a State Trooper bring Jones up to his hotel room where he eventually groped her and exposed himself to her, requesting she preform a lewd sex act. Jones refused and eventually left the room as Clinton asked her to keep the encounter “just between ourselves.” Jones sued the President and the resulting investigation led to the discovery of other sex-related allegations against Clinton, including the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Bill Clinton paid $850,000 to settle the lawsuit, but never admitted wrongdoing or apologized. (4). Monica Lewinsky -- Lewinsky's is undoubtedly the most famous case of Bill Clinton's sexual misdeeds. The former president is accused of sexually preying on Lewinsky when she was working under him as a White House intern in 1995. In those years, Clinton and Lewinsky had multiple sexual encounters. Lewinsky was 21 at the beginning of the sexual relationship. In a moment that would mar his legacy forever, Clinton looked the American people in the face and declared : “I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” Clinton would later admit he wasn't being entirely honest. The Lewinsky scandal led to impeachment proceedings and a scandal-filled period in his presidency. He was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice during the course of a grand jury investigation of the affair. Although he was acquitted by the Senate after the impeachment sailed through the GOP-controlled House, the scandal had taken a sharp toll on Clinton's brand and his esteem on Capitol Hill. (5). Sandra Allen James -- While working as a political fundraiser in 1991, Sandra Allen James alleges Clinton invited her to a Washington, DC, hotel room and sexually assaulted her. She reportedly claimed Clinton pinned her up against the wall and shoved his hand up her dress. (6). Eileen Wellstone -- Eileen Wellstone's sexual assault allegations against Bill Clinton go all the way back to 1969 at Oxford University, where she and the future President were students. Wellstone revealed her story in 1999, alleging that Clinton sexually assaulted her during their time at Oxford after they met at a pub, but she never went public with additional details. (7). Carolyn Moffet -- In 1999, Carolyn Moffet publicly claimed that Bill Clinton attempted to force her into performing oral sex on him while working as a legal secretary in Arkansas. She gave one of her only interviews to Capitol Hill Blue and then went silent : The former Miss Moffet, the legal secretary who says Clinton tried to force her into oral sex in 1979, has since married and left the state. She says that when she told her boyfriend, who was a lawyer and supporter of Clinton, about the incident, he told her to keep her mouth shut. “He said that people who crossed the governor usually regretted it and that if I knew what was good for me I'd forget that it ever happened,” she said. “I haven't forgotten it. You don't forget crude men like that.” Like two other women, the former Miss Moffet declined further interviews. A neighbor said she had received threatening phone calls. (8). Carolyn Zercher -- Carolyn Zercher, a former flight attendant on Bill Clinton’s 1991 presidential campaign, told tabloid Star magazine in 1998 that the former President groped her during a flight while Hillary Clinton slept nearby. The New York Daily News reported at the time that Clinton campaign advisers dismissed the allegations : Zercher, the latest in a string of women who have charged that Clinton sexually harassed them, said the Democratic presidential candidate once invited her to join him in the campaign jet's bathroom while his pants were unzipped. Ex-Clinton campaign advisers scoffed at the allegations, and an ex-husband of Zercher's said he found the story hard to believe. (9). Gennifer Flowers -- Gennifer Flowers poured controversy on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign when she revealed their sexual relationship soon before the election. She said their relationship spanned over a decade -- and many thought the revelation would sink Clinton's candidacy. Like with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton first denied having sex with Flowers during a “60 Minutes” interview, but was forced to admit the truth after Flowers released secretly recorded phone calls between them. However, he claimed his affair with Flowers, an Arkansas state employee, Penthouse model and actress, only lasted one session in 1977. As CNN notes, media also did its best to ignore the story initially : At first, some in the media ignored : “This is what I think of the story,” said the executive producer of CBS News, before throwing the tabloid that broke the story in the garbage. James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, both Clinton aides at the time, also attempted to discredit Flowers. Stephanopoulos said of the recorded calls, “Oh, it was absolutely his voice, but they were selectively edited in a way to -- to create some -- some impression.” Flowers would sue Hillary Clinton, Carville and Stephanopoulos for defamation. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2006. She continues to insist that Hillary Clinton is an “enabler” of her husband’s sexual misconduct. (10). Helen Dowdy -- Helen Dowdy, the wife of Hillary Clinton's cousin, told author Jerry Oppenheimer that Bill Clinton inappropriately groped her during a wedding in 1986. She claimed he dragged her onto the dance floor and then pulled her in “very closely. It was almost like a teenager would do. It was so inappropriate,” she said. The allegation was published in Oppenheimer’s 2000 book “State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton.” (11). At least two other women accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct, according to the 1999 Capitol Hill Blue reportn: In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, a law student at the college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed the incident. The woman, tracked down by Capitol Hill Blue last week, confirmed the incident, but declined to discuss it further and would not give permission to use her name.And, in 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law school instructor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse. She complained to her faculty advisor who confronted Clinton, but Clinton claimed the student ''came on'' to him. The student left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas, the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go on the record with her account. Several former students at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students. Bill Clinton was never charged in any of the cases. ~~ Something to consider during the weekend. Vive la GOP !!!