Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a clear contender for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2016, has decided to go the route of attacking Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton through her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Yesterday, on MEET THE PRESS, Paul brought up the sex scandal of the 42nd President sixteen years ago, reviving memory of Monica Lewinsky, and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
No one is trying to defend Bill Clinton on his reprehensible, disgraceful, and potentially dangerous behavior, as if Monica Lewinsky had been a spy or connected to Organized Crime, which thankfully she was not, it could have been a danger to America’s national security. One cannot forget that President John F. Kennedy WAS involved with a Mafia woman, Judith Campbell Exner, a terrible gamble and dangerous action in the time of the Cold War and the battle against Organized Crime being key issues in American politics.
So it is not as if any ethical person was not shocked by Clinton’s misbehavior, and this author condemned the whole situation at that time. But the Republicans acted holier than thou, at a time when Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde, Bob Livingston and other Congressional Republicans were engaged in sexual affairs outside of marriage themselves! What hypocrisy on a grand scale! Do not forget that the Republicans moved to impeach Clinton, and that his future obituary will always include the scandal and the impeachment in an early paragraph. But the impeachment was not justified, and the GOP failed to remove Clinton, and they suffered in public opinion, and Clinton’s popularity soared, and remains extremely high after 16 years since those events!
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton chose to stay in her marriage, which is her business, and went on to a distinguished career in the US Senate and as Secretary of State, and she deserves to be judged on her own accomplishments, not the shortcomings of her husband!
This tactic of Rand Paul will backfire in a major way, and he needs to “get a life”, and spend less time attacking Bill Clinton, and more time trying to justify why a person who came to office on the back of his dad, former Texas Congressman Ron Paul, and has done nothing positive in three years, except to embarrass himself and make one wonder how he became an eye specialist, although not certified by the national organization, seems to think that he is qualified to be President of the United States!
“and make one wonder how he became an eye specialist, although not certified by the national organization”
You like accusing Fox News is lying, but you lie yourself. Rand Paul DID become certified by the national organization. But when he had to renew the certification, he chose not to do it because the organization decided to discriminate and require only some members to take the tests more frequenly. Only then he opened his own organization. So it’s a lie when you say he never became certified. He was certified by the national organization, and after disagreements with their discriminatory practices, decided to open his own organization.
When it comes to facts, you’re worse than Fox News.
Mark, just like Fox News, you are misinterpreting the facts. You are partially correct in that Paul objected to the change in rules of the national organization, but then he formed his own group, with himself as its leader, making it impossible to recertify his competence, and when Paul went to the Senate, the organization was closed down. So if you are so upset about the truth, far different than you say, why don’t you find somewhere else to spew forth your propaganda, since you love the distortions of Fox News Channel!
Would you admit or not that Paul was actually certified by the National Organization? Your post gives that impression, and if you don’t admit it’s a false impression, you can’t accuse anyone of misrepresenting anything.
I said, Mark, that Paul was certified originally, but by leaving, he was not able to be recertified. as should be expected, to protect the public from anyone in medicine who does not keep up with new research and changing standards. The organization he formed disappeared very quickly when he was elected to the Senate, making that organization seem less than legitimate, would you not agree?
“to protect the public from anyone in medicine who does not keep up with new research and changing standards”
The ophthalmology certification is not a license. It’s given by a private organization to increase the confidence of customers, it’s not a license given by the government to allow practice.
It’s in a sense like a certificate of purity some vitamin companies publish, voluntarily, to increase the confidence of customers. Since Rand gained enough reputation from patients, ex patients, and colleagues, so that he has a reputation good enough to need this extra certificate. If that’s not enough for you, that’s fine, you can choose other eye doctor, there are many.
This has nothing to do with protecting the public by preventing bad doctors to practice -as being certified or not has legal effect on whether the physician can practice-, it’s about increasing physicians reputation and customers (patients) confidence.
“The organization he formed disappeared very quickly when he was elected to the Senate, making that organization seem less than legitimate, would you not agree?”
Many projects fail. It disappeared, so it’s not accurate to say it’s less legitimate, it’s non-existing. What doesn’t exist isn’t legitimate or illegitimate.
Ok, Mark, you have made your point and I accept it, so can we agree simply that knowing how Rand Paul has conducted himself as a Senator, he might have been a great eye doctor, but I do NOT want him to be our President, and I gather you DO want him to be our President! This is what makes our nation great, that we can agree to disagree in an agreeable fashion!