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always something new with these two. I have no idea why Obama even considered this woman. And Bill is a just a hanger on as far as I can see. To think I almost liked the man at one time and that I felt sorry for Hilary.
What a mistake!
They both stink.
(Not just because of the money from foreigners but because everytime I see one or the other or both of them at the same time, I just feel creepy.
WASHINGTON 鈥?Former President Bill Clinton laid out a list of big-ticket donors to his foundation Thursday that is heavy with foreign governments and business interests sure to have a stake in the policies that Hillary Rodham Clinton carries out as secretary of state.
Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments gave at least $46 million, while corporate donors included the Blackwater security firm that protects U.S. diplomats in Iraq.
The contributions went to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit created by the former president to finance his library in Little Rock, Ark., and charitable efforts to reduce poverty and treat AIDS. President-elect Barack Obama made Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state contingent on her husband revealing the foundation's contributors, to avoid questions about potential conflicts of interest.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the foundation, and other government donors included Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica. The Dutch national lottery gave $5 million to $10 million.
The Blackwater Training Center donated $10,001 to $25,000. The State Department will have to decide next year whether to renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq. Five Blackwater guards have been indicted by a U.S. grand jury on manslaughter and weapons charges stemming from a September 2007 firefight in Baghdad's Nisoor Square in which 17 Iraqis died.
The foundation disclosed the names of its 205,000 donors on a Web site Thursday, ending a decade of resistance to identifying the sources of its money. While the list is loaded with international business leaders and billionaires, some 12,000 donors gave $10 or less.
Clinton agreed to release the information after concerns emerged that his extensive international fundraising and business deals could conflict with America's interests if his wife became the nation's top diplomat. The foundation has insisted for years that it was under no legal obligation to identify its contributors, contending that many expected confidentiality when they donated.
The list also underscores ties between the Clintons and India, a connection that could complicate diplomatic perceptions of whether Hillary Clinton can be a neutral broker between India and neighboring Pakistan in a region where Obama will face an early test of his foreign policy leadership.
The former president did not release specific totals for each donor, providing only ranges of giving. Nor did he identify individual contributors' occupations or countries of residence.
Donors gave Clinton's foundation at least $492 million from its inception in 1997 through last year, according to the most recent figures available.
After negotiations with Obama's transition team, Clinton promised to reveal the contributors, submit future foundation activities and paid speeches to an ethics review, step away from the day-to-day operation of his annual charitable conference and inform the State Department about new sources of income and speeches.
Representatives of the foundation, including CEO Bruce Lindsay and attorney Cheryl Mills, and aides to Hillary Clinton met privately Wednesday with staff of incoming Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry of Massachusetts and ranking Republican Dick Lugar of Indiana to discuss the foundation's activities and review a memorandum of understanding drawn up by the Clinton and Obama teams.
The Foreign Relations Committee will hold hearings and vote on Hillary Clinton's nomination before sending it to the full Senate. Shortly after Obama tapped Clinton, Lugar said he would support her, though he said there would still be "legitimate questions" raised about the former president's extensive international involvement.
"I don't know how, given all of our ethics standards now, anyone quite measures up to this 鈥?who has such cosmic ties," Lugar said.
Some of the donors have extensive ties to Indian interests that could prove troubling to Pakistan. Tensions between the two nuclear nations are high since last month's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Amar Singh, a donor in the $1 million to $5 million category, is an Indian politician who played host to Bill Clinton on a visit to India in 2005 and met Hillary Clinton in New York in September to discuss an India-U.S. civil nuclear agreement. hey sillies on the right. I'm not democerat or conservative. I don't need a label. and I didn't write the entire article (to he who invited me to "get a life"). I wrote comments which took about 8 minutes.I do have a life. I just type fast. Very fast. I think fast also.
It took me just under 18 seconds to write this little tidbit.
Now.
Drink some milk and take a nap sily.
(the last sent. took 5 seconds) Obama is being smart in a political way.
Hilary cannot run against him in 2012. She cannot resign and be VP in 2012 unless he lets her. If she is not VP in 2012 then she will fail against whom ever is VP in 2016, by which time she will be haunted by the ageism she used against McCain.
So she will only be able to run as President in 2020 if the Democrat VP fails in 2016, and 2024 if he/she wins.
Let her fall on her butt at state, and blame it on Hilary/Bill, and totally destroy her hopes.
On the other hand, it would be a better world if Hillary/Bill crawled back under that little rock that the crept out from. Perhaps then the whitewater will get them. They just will not go away, just like cancer. I do wish they would leave politics! However, I would much rather have Hillary than Obama.
I believe Hillary loves the country, but have a bad plan to try and help the USA. I do not know if Obama loves the USA at all. I pray he does.
I bet we will see Hillary in 4 years if Obama's approval rating is low by then. Bill Clinton led us through eight years of peace and prosperity. He is one of the better Presidents of recent times. Bill and Hillary are used to the smears and slanders of the right. A $90 million dollar investigation could turn up nothing more than a soiled dress. In spite of the attacks Bill and Hillary are far more popular than Bush, McCain, Cheney, Palin and the all the right wing radio hosts and FOX pundits put together. I bet you'd like to see them leave politics. So would Karl Rove and all those I just named. I'm glad that there is someone that can stand up to the Rove attack dogs. Seems to me, judging by the amount of effort that you put into your little tirade (that no one will bother to read), that you are fascinated by them.
Face it...you are in love. if you have time to write that mess you must not have any personal life at all. HEY GET A LIFE |
