Thursday, January 31, 2008

Bill Clinton again- no way!

Wow -way to go NYT!

Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.

The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.

Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges


This is why I cannot vote for Hillary - even assuming she knew absolutely NOTHING about this and was against it.

Even if Obama was not in the race, and I liked her more personally - a big IF - - her husband's wheeling and dealing during and after his presidency just makes me think that if she was president for the next 4-8 years we would have nothing in the news but this kind of @!#% hitting the fan every single day. NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will get done. No more lies and duplicity... please spare us. Bill, just go away and do your deals and make money on the sly. We do not need to hear about it for the next 8 years!!

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