clinton's actions w/r/t her husband's long history of rape and abuse are absolutely a relevant issue to her qualifications as president. it's disgraceful that some of you expect people to ignore serious moral failures just because they happen to have been committed by a member of their own party.
Welcome to the past twenty-five years of internal Democratic politics. There are very few nationally prominent Democrats in this country whose political careers have never depended on pretending that Bill Clinton is anything other than a national disgrace.
It is not good politics for anyone within the Sanders campaign to focus on this, for obvious reasons. And there is an element of unfairness in targeting Hillary without acknowledging that much of the Democratic Party shares in her complicity. Obviously, going to war with the
entire party in 2015 because it didn't treat Bill Clinton like Andrew Johnson in 1998 wouldn't make much sense either.
That said, it amazes me that so many Democrats continue to bristle when forced to confront the fact that Bill Clinton is a sexual predator - and one who routinely used his power and influence to intimidate and to shame women, especially Lewinsky, into silence. The latter fact taints the reputation of almost anyone who has ever been a member of Bill Clinton's inner circle, and I hope that someday when enough time has passed and enough important people are dead, the Democratic Party will be willing to reckon with this.
