White Privilege?

[Benton]

(07-06-2018, 11:13 AM)jj22 Wrote: I'm not sure it's politics. Bill got away with a shaky background which included sexual harassment clams etc and was still voted in to Office.

Bill's popularity actually rose after the Monica scandal.

Not sure a black man getting **** in the oval office would have had the same reaction.

I do agree tho, Republicans (Fox News) love finding black people to attack black people (the two black women comedians come to mind), but they keep them in their place.  I doubt their base would ever support a minority as POTUS.

I agree with Fred, it's more about politics than skin color.

Obama got called out for everything he did not because he was black, but because he wasn't a Republican. Clinton was the same. When the GOP finally had enough to go after him, they impeached. Clinton's impeachment had nothing to do with getting a BJ — a good chunk of congress at the time was cheating on their spouses (many with members of the same sex) — and all to do with political standing. Clinton was well liked and the country was in good shape, Republicans were in danger of losing everything if they couldn't rally the base or slander the POTUS. If we hadn't cut taxes and gone to war at the same time under Bush, the cuts under Clinton and Congress would have started to reduce the deficit a couple years after he left office. A democrat that lowered the deficit? That would have crippled the GOP, so they need to impeach. Of course, it didn't matter as we got W's cuts and a super expensive war.