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[[George Stephanopoulos]] says in his memoir of the Clinton "War Room", a War waged by the Clinton machine and surrogates against fellow citizens with as much vitriol and [[hate]] as against a foreign oppressor,
[[George Stephanopoulos]] says in his memoir of the Clinton "War Room", a War waged by the Clinton machine and surrogates against fellow citizens with as much vitriol and [[hate]] as against a foreign oppressor,
{{Quotebox|..."We have to destroy her story," Mrs. Clinton said of one of the first women to come forward during her husband's first presidential campaign, Connie Hamzy, in 1991.}}
{{Quotebox|..."We have to destroy her story," Mrs. Clinton said of one of the first women to come forward during her husband's first presidential campaign, Connie Hamzy, in 1991.}}
In January of 2016 ''Esquire'' magazine reported on the conundrum many liberals and feminists found themselves in before the primary season. At a dinner party in the fashionable Upper East Side apartment of the chief executive of [[HBO]] several past and present, conflicted, Clinton surrogates discussed how
In January of 2016 ''Esquire'' magazine reported on a gathering in the fashionable Upper East Side apartment of the chief executive of [[HBO]]. Several conflicted past and present Clinton surrogates discussed how
{{Quotebox|the Clintons and their allies discredited women who said they had had sexual encounters with or been [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] by former [[President Bill Clinton]]. The conversation, relayed by several people with knowledge of the discussion who would speak about it only anonymously, captures the deeper debate unfolding among liberal-leaning women about how to reconcile Mrs. Clinton's leadership on women's issues with her past involvement in her husband's efforts to fend off accusations of sexual misconduct.<ref>[http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41327/new-york-times-clinton-rumors/ The New York Times Is Obsessed with 2 Things. You Already Know What They Are.], By Charles P. Pierce, ''Esquire'', Jan 20, 2016.</ref>}}
{{Quotebox|the Clintons and their allies discredited women who said they had had sexual encounters with or been [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] by former [[President Bill Clinton]]. The conversation, relayed by several people with knowledge of the discussion who would speak about it only anonymously, captures the deeper debate unfolding among liberal-leaning women about how to reconcile Mrs. Clinton's leadership on women's issues with her past involvement in her husband's efforts to fend off accusations of sexual misconduct.<ref>[http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41327/new-york-times-clinton-rumors/ The New York Times Is Obsessed with 2 Things. You Already Know What They Are.], By Charles P. Pierce, ''Esquire'', Jan 20, 2016.</ref>}}
The conundrum these conflicted Clinton surrogates face is how to explain their own past conduct to a generation of Millennials unfamiliar with brazen history of the pair:
{{Quotebox|Even some [[Democrat]]s who participated in the effort to discredit the women acknowledge privately that today, when Mrs. Clinton and other women have pleaded with the authorities on college campuses and in workplaces to take any allegation of sexual assault and sexual harassment seriously, such a campaign to attack the women's character would be unacceptable.}}
Such a campaign was unacceptable in the 1990s; Clinton surrogates, at the behest of Hillary Rodham Clinton, made it acceptable.
===Hillary the neocon===
===Hillary the neocon===