BeeLine: Monica +30, Haiti +15

It has been a long time since I have heard the name Monica Lewinsky.

For those who many not have been around 30 years ago, Lewinsky was the young White House intern who Bill Clinton was carrying on an affair with in and around the Oval Office between 1995 and 1997.

This is Lewinsky in May, 1997. She was 22 years old at the time the affair began. Clinton was 49.

Clinton and Lewinsky in the Oval Office in 1997.

When the story of the affair leaked in 1998, Clinton went before the American public and looked at the camera and made this famous denial.

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false."

You can see a video of news coverage of the scandal here including the earnestness in which Clinton denied the affair here.

It was a flat out lie.

Here is a photo of Clinton make that statement with Hillary by his side.

Clinton later was accused of lying to a special prosecutor when asked about the affair when he said this.

"There is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship"

He later argued that he was being truthful because of his use of the present tense. There was nothing going on currently.

Clinton also defended his statement as not being a lie as it depended on "what the meaning of the world is is."

Clinton was later impeached by the House for lying under oath but was acquitted by the Senate.

Monica Lewinsky was in the news last week as she is now fronting a L.A. based apparel brand targeting working women called Reformation.

It appears that Lewinsky has aged very well depute the high profile and notoriety she had to endure in her early years.

Source: https://www.thereformation.com/monica-lewinsky-for-ref.html

What I found interesting in researching this blog post is that Lewinsky is now older (she will be 51 this year) than Clinton was when he was having an affair with her!

Lewinsky has never married and it clearly would not have been easy for her to make a living and a life for herself considering where she was 30 years.

Congratulations on the reformation of her life.

As to Bill Clinton, I wonder if he has any regrets?

For that matter, I wonder if Bill and Hillary believe they ever did anything wrong in their lives to have regrets about?

Witness what is happening in Haiti.

Recall that the Clintons were deeply involved in rebuilding and fixing Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in that country in 2010.

Haiti and collapsed and descended into absolute chaos with armed gangs controlling much of the country.

The Clintons used the Clinton Foundation to raise aid money for Haiti and Bill got himself appointed as Special Envoy to Haiti and assumed the role of determining where all the Clinton Foundation and other international aid got distributed.

Hillary, as Secretary of State, controlled most of the U.S. aid to Haiti.

They ultimately controlled over $13 billion in international donations to assist Haiti.

That is a lot of money especially considering that the entire GDP of Haiti in 2010 was $11.8 billion.

Hillary had stated even before the earthquake occurred in 1999 that as a Secretary of State she was going to use Haiti as a laboratory project to showcase her vision of enlightened development (translated "Progressive policies like increasing the minimum wage and having the government make investment business decisions").

Clinton announced that Haiti would be a laboratory where the United States could road-test new approaches to development, taking advantage of “the power of proximity.”

What we are seeing right now is further evidence of the utter failure of that lab experiment.

Haiti has been a path to chaos and disaster for years and Haitians and other observers are not kind to the Clintons in all of it.

A big question that surrounds all of it is ---"What happened to all the money?"

You can read about it in the following articles if you are interested.