It is funny that Obama and the Democrats piled on Republican Todd Akin for defending the unborn from murder even in cases of rape, and yet they had Bill Clinton speak at the Democrat National Convention. So if they say that Akin was not sensitive to rape victims, then I guess the Democrats are REALLY not sensitive to rape victims by approving Bill Clinton as a speaker at the DNC. After all, Clinton was accused of rape, adultery and sex with interns....
The following is an email from Donna Garner with more in-depth info into this issue:
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Subject: BILL CLINTON AND LEGITIMATE RAPE -- BY JEFFREY LORD -- THE AMER. SPECTATOR -- 8.23.12
From: Donna Garner
To: Donna Garner
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8.23.12 – THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR – SPECIAL REPORT
“Bill Clinton and Legitimate Rape”
Clinton rape scandal resurfaces in Akin controversy: The McCaskill-Clinton videos.
"…the threat, use and cultural acceptance of sexual force is a pervasive process of intimidation that affects all women." --Feminist Susan Brownmiller in her 1975 bestseller Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
"Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me." -- President Obama on Congressman Todd Akin's use of the term "legitimate rape"
"Bill Clinton to Have Leading Role at Party's Convention" -- July 30, 2012 New York Times story announcing that the Obama campaign has selected the former President to nominate Obama
So.
The Obama White House has decided to legitimize rape.
Talk about a mistake.
President Obama, after a considerable absence, abruptly appeared in the White House pressroom the other day to address Congressman Todd Akin's wildly offensive comment about "legitimate rape." In the President's own words: "Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me."
In a stroke the President -- not to mention his allies on Capitol Hill, in the media and left-leaning interest groups -- resurrected one of the most divisive moments of the 1990's.
That moment?
What NBC reporter Lisa Myers was said in the day to have called the "very credible" allegation that Bill Clinton raped a Clinton campaign worker named Juanita Broaddrick.
In a ricochet doubtless unintended, the decision by the White House to personally insert the President into the Akin "legitimate rape" controversy now focuses attention on two stark realities:
· · The selection of Clinton to give the nominating speech for President Obama in a primetime TV slot at the Democrats' convention.
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· · Re-surfacing videos of Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill campaigning with Clinton while saying she "wouldn't want him near my daughter." Videos like this one and this one of McCaskill on Meet the Press.
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