Sidney Blumenthal, a top aide to Hillary Clinton and a past aide to Bill Clinton, has pleaded guilty in New Hampshire to drunk driving. The video below shows a polite and sober Blumenthal at booking. Such tapes are now routinely made available despite private information that is sometimes revealed, as here.
Blumenthal was stopped after doing 70 mph in a 30 mph zone and then found to be drunk. He pleaded guilty March 28 and was fined $900. While his driver’s license was revoked for 10 months, he can seek restoration after 120 days if he completes and alcohol education program in Washington, D.C.
For the video and story, click here.
Irrelevant! Why do American politics focus on such irrelevant issues? A top aide drunk driving, a controversial pastor, Monica Lewinsky (still!?!) Chile has a woman president. She is a single mother. She has 3 kids – 2 from a marriage and 1 from no marriage at all. Amount of times this was brought up in her 2006 presidential race – ZERO! Why? It’s irrelevant. Sometimes US politics remind me of the gossip column in the Post – it’s disgusting (and not really ‘politics’ at all).