Sex scandal stops Hillary from Whitehouse!

Really! I was reminded recently during the after Easter-dinner political discussion that a Sex scandal is really to blame for Hillary’s woes. And it has nothing to do with Bill this time.

We’ll get to that in a bit.

Is it an age thing? Do politics become more interesting the older you get or has it just been an interesting couple of seasons?

In 2000 we had hanging-chads! Al Gore is inches from conceding, I think he even picked up the phone to call Bush. When, all of a sudden, he gets the notion to drag the whole thing down into the mud err courts. But then looses anyway so that he can go off and invent global warming. Thank God.

The whole thing was a huge spectacle that went on for months. All the while it was interesting but does it really matter who is in white house? The president is important but most of the time what he does is pretty detached from our everyday events. Then on 9/11/2001 we were attacked. I for one was glad we did not have Al Gore in the White House on that day.

The following presidential race has not been disappointing. For the last few months I have been watching the primaries with increased enthusiasm. What should have ended on Super-Tuesday has turned into an interesting contest between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. For details see the recent internet.

Then I was reminded that if we start at the beginning the story is even more interesting. It all starts with Jeri Ryan, wife to Jack Ryan Illinois Republican Senate-hopeful. Apparently she refused to go over and above her wifely call of duties and later divorcees Jack in 1999.


Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9 on Star Trek Voyager.

From Wikipedia:
“…when Jack Ryan's Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the [divorce] records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce records public, but not the custody records, claiming that their release could be harmful to their son.

On June 22, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider agreed to release the custody files; the decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that, six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in adult clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling." Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois.”

So the Republicans scramble and send Alan Keys to the rescue to run against Barack Obama and of course looses.

If Jack Ryan had won the Senate seat, which is not that hard to imagine, Hillary would have had almost no competition in the primaries and would have had a much easier time fighting the Republicans for the White House this November.

As it stands now it’s unlikely she will even win the primaries all because the liberal press and liberal judges where out to get a Republican.