• Bill Clinton,  Hillary Clinton,  James Carville,  Terry McAuliffe

    Democrat HACK Terry McAuliffe to Announce Run for Virginia Governor

    Terry McAuliffe announces his intention to kick off his campaign for VA governor on January 7, 2009.

    Damn, does 2010 look like a Republican year or what? Roland Burris, Caroline Kennedy and now Clintonista and Democrat Party HACK Terry McAuliffe on the Virginia ballot.

    On November 10, 2008, McAuliffe filed to form an exploratory committee for Governor of Virginia.He told reporters that he plans to spend the next few months traveling to “every corner of Virginia” to measure interest in his possible run. McAuliffe told The Washington Post that he is “best suited to carry the Democratic banner because he will campaign as a business leader who can bring jobs to Virginia.”He also cited his ability to raise money for down-ticket Democratic candidates.

    In the primary, McAuliffe is expected to face at least two well-known Democrats who have announced their candidacy. State Sen. Creigh Deeds, 2005 nominee for Attorney General, and Del. Brian Moran, the House Democratic Caucus Chairman, have already joined the race. Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell is the only person running thus far for the Republican nomination for governor.

    Wonder if Obama will get on board for Terry? You know Carville and Bill and Hillary will be running the show for Terry.

    A divisive Democrat Primary could help the GOP recapture this seat.

    Stay tuned…….


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  • Bill Clinton,  Hillary Clinton

    Shocker: Bill Clinton Raises $41 Million from Saudi Arabia and Other Foreign Governments

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    No, it is NOT really a shock. We have known that Bubba has been taking the Saudi and other foreign money for years. But, now under the agreement that Hillary Clinton made with “the One” she and Bill must report the cash.

    Former President Bill Clinton’s foundation has raised at least $41 million from Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments that his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton may end up negotiating with as the next secretary of state.

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million 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. Other foreign government givers include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica.

    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 heavy 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 Obama’s top diplomat. The foundation has insisted for years it is under no legal obligation to identify its contributors, contending that many expected confidentiality when they donated.

    How do you spell conflict of interest for Hillary as Secretary of State? The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee must scrutinize this disclosure and make sure that Hillary is NOT compromised in her dealings with the foreign donors – many of which have conflicts with other donors.

    Some notable donations:

    • 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.
    • The Confederation of Indian Industry, an industrial trade association – $500,000 – $1 million
    • Dave Katragadda, an Indian capital manager with holdings in media and entertainment, technology, health care and financial services – $500,000 – $ 1 million
    • AUSAID, the Australian government’s overseas aid program, and COPRESIDA-Secretariado Tecnico, a Dominican Republic government agency formed to fight AIDS, each gave $10 million to $25 million. Norway gave $5 million to $10 million. Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei and Oman gave $1 million to $5 million each. The government of Jamaica and Italy’s Ministry for Environment and Territory gave $50,000 to $100,000 each.
    • The biggest donations — more than $25 million each — came from two donors. They are the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, a London-based philanthropic organization founded by hedge fund manager Chris Hohn and his wife Jamie Cooper-Hohn and dedicated to helping children, primarily in Africa and India; and UNITAID, an international drug purchase organization formed by Brazil, France, Chile, Norway and Britain to help provide care for HIV-AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis patients in countries with high disease rates.
    • The No. 4 person on the Forbes billionaire list, Lakshmi Mittal, the chief executive of international steel company ArcelorMittal, gave $1 million to $5 million. Mittal is a member of the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan, Goldman Sachs’ board of directors and the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, according to the biography on his corporate Web site.
    • Harold Snyder, director for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the largest drug company in Israel. His son, Jay T. Snyder, serves on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which oversees State Department activities, and served as a senior U.S. adviser to the United Nations, where he worked on international trade and poverty – $1 million – $5 million
    • No. 97 on the Forbes billionaire list, Ethiopian-Saudi business tycoon Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi – $1 million – $5 million
    • Lukas Lundin, chairman of oil, gas and mining businesses including Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd., an international oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in Syria, and Vostok Nafta Investment Ltd., an investment company that focuses on Russia and other former Soviet republics – $1 million – $5 million
    • Issam Fares, a former deputy prime minister of Lebanon – $1 million – $5 million


    Top Israeli American Jewish donors include:

    • TV producer Haim Saban and his family foundation, who donated between $5 million and $10 million, splits his time between homes in Israel and California. “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel,” he told The New York Times in 2004.
    • Slim-Fast diet foods tycoon S. Daniel Abraham, a donor of between $1 million and $5 million, has been a board member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which promotes Israel’s interests before the U.S. government.
    • The American Jewish Committee and the United Nations Foundation donated $100,000 to $250,000.

    All of the contributor information can be found here.

    Is there any wonder why Bill Clinton stonewalled the release of this list during Hillary’s run for the Presidency? Look at the conflicting/competing interests who all gave to Bubba’s library and causes.

    Now, with the Obama strategy of pushing Caroline Kennedy for Hillary’s New York Senate seat and thus freezing Hillary out of a return to the Senate and this disclosure Obama now assures NO PRIMARY CHALLENGE to him in four years. And, thus, wounds Hillary’s chances to run for the Presidency in 2016.

    Pretty smart strategy, eh?


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  • Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  Caroline Kennedy,  Chelsea Clinton,  Hillary Clinton

    Why Not Chelsea Clinton for Hillary’s Senate Seat?

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    Former US President Bill Clinton (L) and his daughter Chelsea Clinton listen to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) September 2008 in New York. Bill Clinton said he would back his wife Hillary if she became secretary of state but has even bigger political hopes for their daughter Chelsea, in an interview released Wednesday

    Chelsea is barred by the United States Constitution since she is only 28 years old from holding her mom’s Senate seat. But, it is apparent from this story that the Clinton Cabal is NOT happy with the Kennedy Klan pushing Caroline for Hillary’s seat.

    Why?

    If Hillary decided to leave as Secretary of State there would be little to no chance of her ever recapturing this Senate seat with Caroline Kennedy as the incumbent.

    Looks like Barack Obama has the Clintons right where he wants them – MARGINALIZED.


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  • Bill Clinton,  Hillary Clinton

    Bill Clinton to Testify at Hillary’s Confirmation Hearing?

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    Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    Think GOP Senators do NOT relish the opportunity to make Bill Clinton squirm under oath answering questions about his foreign fundraising?

    Senate Republicans are considering asking Bill Clinton to testify at his wife’s confirmation hearing about potential conflicts of interest involving his worldwide charitable enterprises.

    “There are concerns about his international work across the board,” a Republican aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Politico. “Seeking donations from foreign governments is definitely concerning. … It has been discussed, and it will be discussed.”

    They should insist that the former President provide the Senate with a list of donors to his Presidential Library and his William J. Clinton Foundation. A list of all of them.

    Then, the GOP should insist that Bubba testify about Attorney General nominee Eric Holder and let them both explain the pardon to Marc Rich.


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  • Bill Clinton,  Bill Richardson

    Bill Richardson’s Frequent Flyer Campaign Debt

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    Bill Richardson and former President Bill Clinton watching the 2008 Super Bowl

    Commerce Secretary designee and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has some campaign debt problems just like Hillary Clinton.

    Bill Richardson would do a lot of global jet-setting as commerce secretary, but he’s still on the hook for more than $150,000 in domestic airfare footed by influential home state allies.

    During his failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, crisscrossed the country partly on corporate jets controlled by influential New Mexicans with deep pockets — including one just elected to Congress.

    The airfare debt creates uncomfortable optics for Richardson, since his ties to some of his aero-benefactors have been controversial. But Richardson also is statutorily obligated to repay them for the trips, lest they be considered illegal, over-the-limit corporate contributions.

    And, now Bubba is constrained in his ability to help out and hit up all of those oil-rich Middle Eastern types as per his agreement with Obama.

    Guess Mark Penn will have to cancel his new vacation house. As for Richardson, Bill and Hillary would not be too helpful anyway.

    Richardson will be on his own.

    Good luck with that.


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  • Bill Clinton,  Hillary Clinton,  Sarah Palin

    Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary Supporters Now Defending Sarah Palin Against Media Bias

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    The reports have been that Barack Obama wanted to enlist Hillary Clinton to combat the Sarah Palin “bounce” in the polls. But, this has been unrealized.

    Former Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson is dismissing any notion the Obama campaign would dispatch Clinton to take on Palin, as much as he thinks some people would revel in seeing the two strong women butt heads.

    “Don’t hold your breath,” he wrote in his New Republic blog. “Clinton-Palin might drive ratings and sell magazines, but it wouldn’t be good for the Democratic Party, or the cause of women’s rights. Some might enjoy the spectacle, but don’t expect Hillary Clinton to play along.”

    Now, Hillary backers are speaking out for Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

    The leaders of a women’s political organization that launched earlier this year to support Hillary Clinton are speaking out against what they say are examples of media sexism toward Sarah Palin and urging members to tell the press corps “to back off.”

    WomenCount, a group co-founded by top Hillary fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell, posted a lengthy item on their blog decrying questions over whether Palin can, as a mother of five, juggle her family responsibilities and still be vice president.

    “The very notion that Sarah Palin should not have accepted this nomination because she is a mother with demanding challenges underscores just how far we have to go,” wrote Rosemary Camposano, the group’s communications director.

    She added: “It will be good for America to watch Sarah Palin on the campaign trail – bouncing from parenting to politics. That’s how most women function – multi-tasking, leaning on friends and family, and waking up each morning and doing it all again.”

    The Clinton Cabal are alive and well undermining the Obama campaign. Look for a Bill or Hillary gaffe who will further hurt Team Obama and the Democrats who showed them no love during the primary campaign.


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  • Bill Clinton,  Hillary Clinton,  Sarah Palin

    Hillary Clinton Watch: “I am NOT Your Attack Dog Against Sarah Palin”

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Karma is a bitch, isn’t it Barack?

    Hillary Clinton may be the most obvious choice to throw into the ring against the new darling of American politics, Sarah Palin, but the failed Democratic presidential candidate is refusing the job.

    “We’re not going to be anybody’s attack dog against Sarah Palin,” a Clinton insider said yesterday.

    It’s an extraordinary act of hubris from a woman whose success in exposing Barack Obama’s weakness in working-class Democratic states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana may have been the reason that John McCain chose a gun-toting, God-loving mother of five as his running mate.

    Although she is 60 and unlikely to have another shot at the White House, Clinton is apparently concerned that she would appear ungenerous to the Republicans’ first female vice-presidential candidate if she were to go after her.

    It is a rationale that will fuel the belief – lingering among Democrats since Al Gore’s failed 2000 presidential run – that the Clintons always put themselves before their party.

    It was certainly a feeling reinforced during the death-by-a-thousand-cuts primaries when both Clinton and her husband, Bill, launched numerous vicious attacks on Obama even when it was clear that she could not win her party’s nomination.

    Like Flap said when it was announced that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama will meet for lunch on 9/11:

    Hillary and Bill Clinton will do NOTHING for you , Barack – except help you lose.

    Geraghty has the money quote:

    As it is, he’s asking her, “hey, sorry about that bitter primary thing, calling your husband racist, and the lack of campaign debt relief. Could you do me a favor and alienate a certain portion of your voters, obliterate your newfound respect from some corners of the right, and incinerate your chance to head a Democratic ticket in 2012 by making a kamikaze run at America’s newest sweetheart, in order to save my tuchus? Thanks.”

    Plus, the Clinton Cabal has not EVEN started working on destroying Obama’s campaign. Hillary will take on Sarah Palin directly in 2012 when she runs for the vacated Presidency of a retiring John McCain.

    In the meantime, Hillary will keep her powder dry and concentrate on sinking the Obamessiah.


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  • Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton

    Barack Obama to Break Bread with Bill Clinton and Clear the Air?

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    This graphic pronouncement came up on Drudge just as Hillary was about to deliver her speech at the Democrat National Convention

    Does Barack Obama REALLY think this meeting with Bill Clinton will mean anything? Obama has been trumped by John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin and he is in trouble with working class women. Hence, the meeting, no?

    And, Obama characterized Bill as a racist during the primary election season. Plus, Obama REALLY did not help retire the Clinton’s campaign debt.

    Hillary and Bill Clinton will do NOTHING for you , Barack – except help you lose.


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  • Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  Hillary Clinton,  Michelle Obama

    Barack Obama Watch: The Bill Clinton Snub

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    This graphic pronouncement came up on Drudge just as Hillary was about to deliver her speech last night.

    Hillary Clinton will be on hand for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, but according to a source close to former President Bill Clinton, he will not: the source tells CNN that Clinton will not join his wife at Invesco Field Thursday night.

    Both Bill and Hillary need Barack Obama to lose to John McCain or they are both frozen out of the Presidency.

    The Clinton Cabal will continue to undermine Obama’s candidacy.

    Did anyone catch Michelle Obama’s countenance last night while Hillary was speaking. As Flap friend and fellow blogger Kate said via Twitter: “Die Bitch Die….” was what Michelle was REALLY thinking.

    A party united? Hardly……

    Stay tuned……


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