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(62,325 posts)with Clinton, for years. I am talking about from 2000 on. Limbaugh et al could not stop talking about Clinton and Monica and if you weren't online at that time, then it's hard to describe what it was like.
I remember telling one of them that when they were on their deathbed they would be muttering 'clinton' they were so obsessed.
We of course fought back on his behalf, unlike you I really did support Clinton so I was angry at how he had been portrayed.
But I definitely felt like a fool years later when I saw how close a relationship the Clintons had with the Bushes. It was a shock.
And no, he didn't just appear at a function where Bush was present. He took over the rehabilitation of Bush personally after his image was shattered, deservedly by his criminal mishandling of Katrina. He was popular himself with the African American community. Needless to say, Bush was despised. So Clinton took him with him to 'raise funds' for NOLA victims. It was insulting and a real slap in the face to the victims and those of us who had so strongly defended him.
The Bushes were also despised in Haiti, where Clinton was more popular. Bushes ousted Aristedes, first the father then the son, Clinton had helped reinstate him.
But Clinton brought Bush with him on a visit to Haiti hoping to get the people of Haiti to view him differently. It didn't work, if Clinton thought WE would be influenced to view Bush as a nice guy because HE liked him, the exact opposite happened, now I have little respect for Clinton and realize we were fooled. Which is why I will never again treat any politician as someone I need to defend. They are not our friends, they work for us. They will get credit when they earn it. When they betray promises, as Clinton did but we overlooked that out of loyalty, they will not be protected or defended anymore.
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