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Former President's Foreign Donors Could Complicate Hillary Clinton's Secretary Of State Bid
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- What an idiotic posting. You are totally clueless as you have totally missed the point here. The Clinton foundation has accepted millions of dollars from foreign governments. How can Hilary Clinton effectively negotioate with a government that has donated millions to her husbands foundation. It is not about what the money is used for but where it came form.
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Posted by redbds at 03:27 PM
Since the money isn''t for personal use or gain, I see no problem. - Reply to this comment
- But the same folks who post the hate will be in a Kiwanis club that takes donations from lawyers, business men,Doctors and so on. They will be in churches which take donations large and small. They will have made donations large and small to the Republican party.
All those donations of course wre simply to do good. No one with REAL BIG money wants to do good. (Even though government action should always be on a track that follows the old Cal Coolidge saw, "The business of this country is business."
Posted by brundage3 at 03:04 PM : Dec 18, 2008
What an idiotic posting. You are totally clueless as you have totally missed the point here. The Clinton foundation has accepted millions of dollars from foreign governments. How can Hilary Clinton effectively negotioate with a government that has donated millions to her husbands foundation. It is not about what the money is used for but where it came form. - Reply to this comment
- Bush relegated America to a side-show as far as our allies were concerned. No fear, no respect, sympathetic laughter maybe. Obama already has the respect of our friends (which is worth much more than our enemies hating us) so we''''''''re already way better off. Posted by usclimey at 01:20 PM : Dec 18, 2008
Go ahead and speak of past and current conditions regarding Bush but don''t be so ignorant as to predict what Obama will do...it''s only speculation. Stick to the facts...and go ahead and pretend questions don''t exist that he hasn''t had his feet held to the fire to answer....but time is going to tell, no matter what. - Reply to this comment
- I am more worried about where Obama got all of his money: the most in history. He will never let us know. Just like we don''t know anything else about the man, except he and his servants lie for him and cover up everything including his birth certificate. Now, what possible motive would his relatives have for saying that they were there at his birth and say he was born in Africa in a hospital, before going to Hawaii. Why would they lie, what would they have to gain.....NOTHING not a *** thing. We ain''t seen nothing yet from these folks and I am going to laugh at you Democrats and Liberals that voted for this man. What is he going to give you for your vote........nothing, while he is laughing all the way to the bank at your expense and you can do nothing...I will laugh again and say you were stupid, but I feel sorry for your ignorance.
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- Manstantrust - perception is reality. If Bill Clinton is actively, or even passively, accepting contributions to his charitable fund while Mrs. Clinton is actively pursuing US foriegn policy with those same nations it will be viewed as a request for graft - either give to Bill or US foreign policy will not be favorable to you.
It doesn''t matter how worthwhile that endeavor is, the perception of paid access to a US Sec of State can not EVER occur.
Keep in mind that Al Gore''s campaign was mared by peceptions of illegal campaign contributions from overseas - a process Bill Clinton was closely associated with.
The appearence of impropriety must be avoided - period. To do less than remove the Clintons entirely from the program or to put the program on hiatus until she leaves office are they only two viable options. - Reply to this comment
- Poverty in africa and curing AIDS...
humm fair enough..where are the results?? - Reply to this comment
- usclimey - funny - the only people acting like brownshirts are the liberal posters who insist that all conservative posters are little Eichmans and should be ignored at best and humiliated at any opportunity.
Frankly Obama has moved right - pretty dramatically - Reply to this comment
- KEY WORD....got
Move on! - Reply to this comment
- nobody can do it better than the clintons...
and nobody can be as naive as the liberals.. - Reply to this comment
- I post this without reading any of the comments. I will apologize if I am wrong.
What is written here and said through out the country by haters will be,,, "Don''t tell ME these big donors didn''t expect big favors!" Dnother sample of how crooked Democrats are." Etc. Etc, Etc.
That''s MY "knee jerk" comment.
But the same folks who post the hate will be in a Kiwanis club that takes donations from lawyers, business men,Doctors and so on. They will be in churches which take donations large and small. They will have made donations large and small to the Republican party.
All those donations of course wre simply to do good. No one with REAL BIG money wants to do good. (Even though government action should always be on a track that follows the old Cal Coolidge saw, "The business of this country is business." - Reply to this comment
- I agree with Manstantrust. When I donate, itis to the orgnaization not their reps.
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- This is no big surprise! Its not even news anymore! What did anyone expect from this clown; honesty and integrity??? We all know his "reputation"! What a joke!
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- A professional conflict of interest is usually limited to two years, after you leave a lawfirm. Therefore, any donnations older than two years cannot be classified as creating conflict. The Clintons are international professionals, as is evident widely respected. I do not agree that the CGI - a very beneficial organization - should be "victimized", just because Mrs. Clinton becomes Secretary of State. What may need to be done is to make it a more neutral and more widely represented organization.
Donors who contributed to the Clintons were doing it out of their own charitable convictions and were not supporting a political campaign. It would be very wrong to mix philantropic endeavours worldwide by friend or foe - which can change either way overnight - with politics. It is exactly in these humanitarian and philantropic organizations that the "good" in every human being can be brought to the fore and developed to debunk mths about prejudicial opinions.
It is the true diplomatic forum where world and community leaders can be brought to see the other''s point of view.
I do not see a conflict of interest there. The Pakistani government would not "mark" Hilary Clinton, just because the CGI received donnations from Indian philantrophists. They would on the contrary understand that the Clintons are objective in their opinions and do not stand with friend or foe, but for humanity and justice.
Is not that the call of every lawyer who makes his/her pledge at the commencement ceremony? - Reply to this comment
- politics, money and corruption ..three common elements found connected to disaster.
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- Wonder who is helping build the Bush legacy with gifts? I am sure the Sword dance Bush had with the Saudis and the protective role of the US in saving the Sunni Muslims in Iraq would be worth some money personally to Bush. Nowhere near the drop in the bucket the Clintons have received.
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- I am proud to say my son if part of the young republicans on his campus but voted for Obama. That was a brave position to take and reflected his conviction which of the two was a better candidate. I didn''''''''t agree with him but I am very proud of him for doing the right thing.
Posted by jimmyc1955
I am an independant but i question how anyone who calls themselves a republican could have voted for Obama. He is as far away from republican ideals as you can get. Thats why I lost all respect for Colin Powell. He claims to be a republican but endorsed Obama. What kind of sense does that make? - Reply to this comment
- He worked with George W. Bush to escalate the cost of a barrel of petroleum over the last three years. Hillary Clinton is in the Obama Cabinet to push for a higher gasoline price.
Posted by Petro49L
The imagination of you nut jobs really knows no bounds does it? - Reply to this comment
- I am proud to say my son if part of the young republicans on his campus but voted for Obama. That was a brave position to take and reflected his conviction which of the two was a better candidate. I didn''''t agree with him but I am very proud of him for doing the right thing.
Posted by jimmyc1955
Good for him. Most of the young repugs I knew at school were latter day brownshirts, they''d simply shout down any liberal in the name of free speech and beat anyone up who dared to speak up against one of their right-wing idealogues. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by hillaryin016
Don''t you understand - you all LOST. As for the enemies used to fear us , now they laugh at us; you could not be more wrong. Bush relegated America to a side-show as far as our allies were concerned. No fear, no respect, sympathetic laughter maybe. Obama already has the respect of our friends (which is worth much more than our enemies hating us) so we''re already way better off.
As for your other lie; no proof that Obama ever got foreign money and Clinton''s organization spends a lot abroad, so I''d have thought that you''d approve of him collecting money from abroad. - Reply to this comment
- O.P.E.C. bribed Bill Clinton for political favors with their oil money. He worked with George W. Bush to escalate the cost of a barrel of petroleum over the last three years. Hillary Clinton is in the Obama Cabinet to push for a higher gasoline price.
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