naturalplastic wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
sure it's ridiculous, but why does something she said in 2009 matter now?
That's how it works in politics. If at one point in your life you used to commute to work on the same bus as a notorious bomb throwing radical pinko commie, or if at one time you were a member of a White Protestant only country club (even if it was before the civil rights act of 1964 when that was perfectly legal) it will come back to haunt you if you run for office thirty years later.
Until recently being exposed for having done something as commonplace among young folks as smoking weed while in college was a big deal. A certain pol had to claim that he "never inhaled".
Of course some politicians have the decency to wait until
after they retire to get weird. Jimmy Carter waited until after he left the oval office before he got attacked by that giant bunny rabbit. You gotta give him credit for that!

Actually, no. The would-be assassin rabbit in question tried to bag Carter on April 20, 1979. The thwarted attempted assassination of the president by the bunny was reported later on August 28, 1979. Carter's term didn't expire until January 20, 1981.
Wikipedia's report on the attack by the swamp thingQuote:
Humor columnist Dave Barry has often referred to the "enormous swimming rabbit" incident in his writings. In Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, he names it the uncontested single most memorable event of Carter's presidency.

The would-be assassin flees the scene of the crime.
Photo courtesy of the Jimmy Carter Library.