@singlemaltgirl @Cosmichomicide

People recognized that THAT impeachment was BS.

@CLManussier he still had sex w/ a young intern. then lied & said he did not have sex with that woman.

there's something wrong w/ men in power who do that to women, deny it, & get away w/ it.

that's not to say that clinton didn't have good policies that worked for the american peeps.

but he's also an adulterer & took advantage of his position as prez & she took all the shit/fallout. he retained & even grew his popularity. that was pretty ugly.

@Cosmichomicide

@singlemaltgirl @Cosmichomicide

Oh, you'll get no argument from me on him being lowdown slime on that front.

But, congressional Republicans started out investigating a land investment (on which they lost money, in the end) and just kept trawling through stuff until they rustled up his wandering dick in the oval office. It was all an electoral strategy, and they just lucked out that not only was he an inveterate philanderer (w/a side of workplace harassment), but then he lied about it.

@CLManussier i think many of his policies worked w/ what was going on in markets & supported a stronger economy. i think he was a pretty good prez on that side of things.

i just think it was sad that his approval rating went up, after his affair w/ lewinsky. that he faced no consequences for that while she faced all of them, despite him being what? almost 30 yrs older than her & married? yeah, that's pretty awful.

@Cosmichomicide

@singlemaltgirl

Bill Clinton was a hugely successful two term President. Approval ratings the like of which may never be seen again.

Distasteful as it was, the Lewinsky affair was not in any way an impeachable offense and the Starr Report was grotesque overreach (by many of today's bad actors, no less).

I've always thought it would have had more impact if they hadn't gone for the BS impeachment. 🤷

@Cosmichomicide i don't think it was the affair that was the reason for the impeachment but his lying to congress about it. but i could be wrong. i was pretty young when it happened.

i honestly think both parties seem to throw 'impeachment' around like it's candy. it no longer seems to hold the seriousness that it's supposed to have.

i think he was so successful not just b/c he was charismatic, had hrc as a sounding board, & the dems had both houses for a time, right?

@singlemaltgirl @Cosmichomicide

Yes, it was the perjury. But, insofar as it was around a VERY UNofficial act, most people took the impeachment as an overreach. Hence, his approval wound up going up. Not because they approved of what he'd done, but they disapproved of Republican opportunism around it.

@singlemaltgirl

Sorta. The articles of impeachment WERE about the lying, but were presented as Federal Civil Rights violations for the purposes of impeachment grounds.

Now, given that the subject at hand was Bill Clinton, that approach stank like fish on a radiator. People just didn't buy it as a breach of oath, much less a high crime.