{"id":12204,"date":"2016-01-03T22:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2016-01-03T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:49:41","slug":"is-a-spouses-conduct-really-fair-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12204","title":{"rendered":"Is a spouse’s conduct really fair game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maybe I’m a bit slow on the uptake, which wouldn’t be much of a shock, truth be told.<\/p>\n

I’m having trouble connecting a few dots, though, between the behavior of a former president of the United States to the current campaign for the White House featuring the former president’s wife.<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton messed around with a White House intern in the late 1990s and got impeached because of it. His wife, Hillary Clinton, wants the job Bill used to have.<\/p>\n

So, what does she do? She challenges a potential Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, for his attitudes toward women. She calls him a sexist.<\/p>\n

Trump’s response? He said Clinton’s husband is among the most sexist men in recent history . . . because of his alleged extramarital affairs and, of course, the dalliance with the intern.<\/p>\n

I’m finding myself asking: Why is that relevant to the job that Hillary Clinton might do as president? Why does it matter what Bill Clinton was alleged to have done? I used the term “alleged” relating to the previous accusations because I do not believe any of them has ever been proved.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton’s assertions about Trump relate to the here and now. They speak to Trump’s statements — which are on the record — about women; they speak to the very issues that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly brought up during that first Republican presidential debate and which garnered Trump all that notoriety.<\/p>\n

Trump’s retort is to dredge up a relationship that resulted in a presidential impeachment that occurred more than 17 years ago<\/em>; let us remember, too, that the U.S. Senate acquitted<\/em> President Clinton of the charges brought by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Oh, my. This is going to be some kind of presidential campaign year.<\/p>\n

Here we are on the third day of 2016 and I’m already wishing this year would be over.<\/p>\n

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Maybe I’m a bit slow on the uptake, which wouldn’t be much of a shock, truth be told. I’m having trouble connecting a few dots, though, between the behavior of a former president of the United States to the current campaign for the White House featuring the former president’s wife. Bill Clinton messed around with … Continue reading Is a spouse’s conduct really fair game?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[631,1035,1424,1788,2139,2993,3120],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-clinton-impeachment","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-megyn-kelly","tag-monica-lewinsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12207,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions\/12207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}