“Mom, what’s a blow job? Did Monica blow on his penis? Didn’t that tickle? And where did President Bill put that cigar? Doesn’t that hurt? Why did she let him do that to her?”
These were some of the wonderful conversations my mother had to have with me thanks to President Bill Clinton when I was 12 years old in 1998. My poor mother, a lifelong Democrat and hard-left liberal, grew to hate the Clintons because of the conversations their actions necessitated between us. I remember her moaning: “Would it have been so hard for him to keep it in his pants for a few years while he was working in the Oval Office?” Apparently so.
It wasn’t long after the scandal broke that friends started engaging in these activities themselves. If the President, a married man, does it, is it really such a big deal? Even Bill’s own wife didn’t think so. Recently Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon reported that Hillary told a close friend, Diane Blair, that the interactions between Monica and Bill did not include sex “within any real meaning” of the term.
In the early 1990s millions of parents like mine were forced to have conversations with their children about sex long before they were developmentally ready to hear about the mechanics of different sexual acts detailed in the media about Bill Clinton and his various conquests.
Thanks to the nature of the insane 2016 race, it seems that a discussion of the affairs is verboten. It isn’t just idle gossip of a bygone er—it highlights the incredible moral gymnastics that Hillary plays: on one hand portraying herself as a defender of women, on the other, the wife of an alleged serial sexual predator.
A remarkable interview in BuzzFeed with Juanita Broaddrick, a woman who has claimed Bill Clinton raped her, told Americans she “just wants to be believed.” In it Broaddrick explains why she became outspoken again about the alleged 1978 assault.
In September, Clinton tweeted that every sexual assault survivor had “the right to be believed.” In November, she reiterated that “every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed and supported.” The following month, she was asked at a campaign event whether the handful of women who’ve accused her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of sexual harassment and assault—Juanita Broaddrick included—deserved to be “believed” as well.
Few Americans know this long and checkered sexual history of Bill’s, though that may not be the case for very long with the Clintons back in the White House. Hillary and Bill may be significantly older than they were the first time they occupied the Oval Office, but once a dog, always a dog. After decades of this behavior, one would have to be naive to believe Bill has learned new tricks and mended his ways.
Which leaves me and other children of the 1980s and ’90s in a strange position. We learned a great deal about sexuality thanks to the headlines regarding Bill’s escapades. With Hillary leading in the polls for November, it seems we will be raising our own children with another Clinton White House. Will we find ourselves having to explain blow jobs and other sex nuances to our children the same way our parents had to with us?