angrymnk wrote:
Huh? Political class impeached him; among 'teh american pplz' he had a very high, prolly highest of any leaving president, rating.
Sorry. I was assuming you were talking about the response to his actions immediately during/after they became public, not the public reaction a few years later. Since we're right in the middle of the same sort of situation for Hillary, that seemed more appropriate. At the time the affair with Lewinsky became public, his approval rating dropped about 10 points, so it's not fair to say that the public forgave him then. Later? Sure. We Americans tend to be a pretty forgiving lot, especially of past presidents. Heck. Even Nixon's approval ratings went up about 10% a decade or so after he resigned.
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As for Hillary, just the other day she said, and I am paraphrasing here: I am not evil and/or malicious, just stupid. That should do well. I was honestly worried that Hillary might win this time.. but she keeps tripping over her own shoes.
Yeah. For her, it's not just about what she did, but her horrible handling of questions about those things after the fact. She seems to be honestly surprised when the rest of the world doesn't just forget about her past and move on like she'd like them to do. Worse, she gets angry at reporters for asking questions. That's never a good thing. Even if you're one of those people who view certain lines of questions as just political baiting, you expect a politician of that level to handle them better than she is.