[quote]orion wrote:
So?
She went back and forth and back and forth.
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No she didn’t. She only recanted the affidavit you mentioned and said it was because she didn’t want to be forced to testify. See below and above.
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I consider the bar that has to be cleared before I call someone a rapist to be a rather high one, you on the other hand are apparently ready to point your finger and engage in histrionics with the flimsiest of evidence.
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Not flimsy no. Here are the known facts:
'In 1992, presidential candidate Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas and a former state attorney general, was caught up in a swirl of allegations that he was your basic womanizer. One woman, Gennifer Flowers, came forward in a formal press conference to say that she in fact had been a Clinton paramour. She produced audiotapes of Clinton talking with her over the phone – talking about both the intimacy of their personal relationship…
Next, candidate Clinton along with wife Hillary, then both newcomers to the national scene, took to the set of the CBS show 60 Minutes to acknowledge problems in their marriage but insist all was now well. Come November, Clinton was president-elect.
Soon enough – in late 1993 – the “Troopergate” scandal erupted, revealed in the pages of The American Spectator. With allegations that Arkansas state troopers had been used during Clintonâ??s governorship to assist the governor with his womanizing.
In early 1998, out of the seeming blue, another Clinton “bimbo eruption” (as his staff called them) erupted. This one would not go away…
One of the women involved was Juanita Broaddrick. Ms. Broaddrick, a nursing home administrator and successful professional, had been a campaign volunteer in Clinton’s 1978 campaign when then-Attorney General Clinton was running for governor…The argument failed to persuade Mr. Clinton, who, she says, got her onto the bed, held her down forcibly and bit her lips. The sexual entry itself was not without some pain, she recalls, because of her stiffness and resistance…“I felt paralysed and I was starting to cry.” Then he looked at me and said, 'You better put some ice on that. And then he left. Her friend Norma Rogers, a nurse who had accompanied her on the trip, found her on the bed. She was, Ms. Rogers related in an interview, in a state of shock - lips swollen to double their size, mouth discolored from the biting, her pantyhose torn in the crotch."
At one point early on Broaddrick had even denied the story in an affidavit out of fear. But when the lawyers for Clinton’s special prosecutor Kenneth Starr came to her, realizing lying to a federal prosecutor in a presidential impeachment trial was at a whole other level, Broaddrick came forth with her story.
But the first impeachment jury – members of the U.S. House – read of her tale. Broaddrick’s testimony to the special prosecutor was known as “Jane Doe No. 5” and kept in a closed “evidence room” where Congressmen had to go, read the material, and leave. One of those was Connecticut’s moderate Republican Christopher Shays, who later gave this interview to a local radio station. Said Shays of Clinton and the rape allegation from Juanita Broaddrick:
“I believed that he had done it. I believed her that she had been raped 20 yrs ago. And it was vicious rapes, it was twice at the same event.”
At one point, interviewer Tom Scott bluntly asks of Shays: “Do you personally believe our president is a rapist?”
Shays responded: “I would like not to say it that way. But the bottom line is that I believe that he did rape Broaddrick.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/23/bill-clinton-and-legitimate-ra/2
