Hillary For President

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

You misspelled 'grate', trumpkins. As in 'Make 'Merica Grate Agin'.

Wow Bob!

Ya caught a spelling typo!

That's gotta make a man feel good about himself when he can accomplish something like that!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Wow Bob!

Ya caught a spelling typo!

That's gotta make a man feel good about himself when he can accomplish something like that!

Touchy are we, trumpkins?

[bobabode]

So, Tom. What makes you think the Clinton Foundation is dirty like your fellow Trumpies keep mewling about?

[MrPots]

It's probably not, in fact the foundation probably does a lot of good which is all the more reason for the republicans to hate it. The republican way is to constantly and consistently smear someone with lies and innuendo until everyone has doubts. Generally the more good a person does the harder the republicans smear them because all the republican has is hate for anything good and decent. But God himself will judge those who bear false witness.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

So, Tom. What makes you think the Clinton Foundation is dirty

I don't think, I know.

This is from "Common Dreams".

Attack that source as right wing, I dare you.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire...g-arm-campaign

In an interview on CNN this weekend, Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “You asked me about the Clinton Foundation. Do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships? You don’t have a lot of civil liberties, democratic rights in Saudi Arabia. You don’t have a lot of respect there for divergent, opposition points of view, for gay rights, for women’s rights. Yeah — do I have a problem with that? Yeah, I do.”

KEN SILVERSTEIN, ken.silverstein[at]gmail.com, @kensilverstein1
Silverstein is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter and a columnist for the New York Observer and a contributing editor to VICE. He has written several pieces on the Clinton Foundation including “Shaky Foundations: The Clintons’ so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends” for Harper’s Magazine.

Silverstein said today: “The Clinton Foundation is a de facto fundraising arm for the Clinton family, its cronies and of Hillary Clinton’s political campaign. It’s a way for people — especially foreign leaders and wealthy individuals — to curry favor with unlimited money that is incredibly opaque. It is only able to operate because of the meaningless ‘memorandum of understanding’ the Foundation signed with the Obama administration.”

Silverstein writes: “It is beyond dispute that former President Clinton has been directly involved in helping foundation donors and his personal cronies get rich. Even worse, it is beyond dispute that these very same donors and the Clintons’ political allies have won the focused attention of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton when she served as Secretary of State. Democrats and Clinton apologists will write these accusations off as conspiracy mongering and right-wing propaganda, but it’s an open secret to anyone remotely familiar with accounting and regulatory requirements for charities that the financial records are deliberately misleading. …

[bobabode]

Sure, trumpkins.

Silverstein sounds like a nutcase full of innuendo and speculation. I guess that's why he appeals to you.

[sheltiedave]

It is a fact that everyone giving any four figure or higher amount to a politician is trying to curry favor.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by sheltiedave

It is a fact that everyone giving any four figure or higher amount to a politician is trying to curry favor.

As is the case with any generalization, this isn't factual.

[bobabode]

The Working Families Party (WFP), a staunch Sanders ally, endorses Hillary Clinton.

"...60 percent of members were needed to make the move to Clinton, and 68 percent did so. Most of the holdouts preferred that the WFP make no endorsement; few members, he said, wanted the WFP to get behind the Green Party."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ton/?tid=a_inl

[sheltiedave]

Nor'easter, the favor might be a personal one, a public good being sought, or a business favor, now or in the future. Regardless, I don't know anyone who donates significant amounts of money in a vacuum, out of the goodness in their hearts.

Donations are made to secure access, establish relationships, and allow for a form of influence, if not outright favor.