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CAMPAIGN '08
Bill Clinton, China linked via his foundation
Eugene Hoshiko, Associated Press
IN HANGZHOU: President Clinton gave the keynote address at a 2005 conference organized by Alibaba, hailing the Internet as “an inherently cooperative instrument.”
A firm that has donated to the president's charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists. Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China's actions.
By Stephen Braun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 13, 2008
NEW YORK -- As Chinese authorities have clamped down on unrest in Tibet and jailed dissidents in advance of the 2008 Olympics, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken a strong public stance, calling for restraint in Tibet and urging President Bush to boycott the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing.
But her recent stern comments on China's internal crackdown collide with former President Bill Clinton's fundraising relationship with a Chinese Internet company accused of collaborating with the mainland government's censorship of the Web. Last month, the firm, Alibaba Inc., carried a government-issued "most wanted" posting on its Yahoo China homepage, urging viewers to provide information on Tibetan activists suspected of stirring recent riots.
Alibaba, which took over Yahoo's China operation in 2005 as part of a billion-dollar deal with the U.S.-based search engine, arranged for the former president to speak to a conference of Internet executives in Hangzhou in September 2005. Instead of taking his standard speaking fees, which have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000, Clinton accepted an unspecified private donation from Alibaba to his international charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation.
The former president's charity has raised more than $500 million over the last decade and has been lauded for its roles in disaster response, AIDS prevention and Third World medical and poverty relief. But his reliance on influential foreign donors and his foundation's refusal to release its list of donors have led to repeated questions about the sources and transparency of his fundraising -- even as Hillary Clinton has talked on the campaign trail about relying on him as a roving international ambassador if she is elected president.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-clin...
Let's see about your list...
I have guns.
I am resilient.
And although I wasn't one year ago, now I AM optomistic thanks to the Obama candidacy.
I AM SO HAPPy in fact you all are lucky I'm not posting love song lyrics 24/7!
Spiritually rich? That's open to interpretation but I certainly consider myself so.
Regular?
Probably not. You have me there...
Love God? Once again, open to interpretation.
I even like the idea of them being successful world citizens. I just wish they weren't so damn INCESTUOUSLY CROOKED about it as defined by the COMPANY THEY KEEP.
So, so bitter.
Yuck.
Say what you will about the Clinton's, by the gods they never helped the Nazi's.
And what ugly secrets are we going to find out about Obama when the GOP get's done with him? No one gets as far as he has (and so quickly) without powerful help.
In all honesty, I would bet that they've done all the oppo-research they could. Don't forget that for the last year the GOP has been hitting Obama with everything they've got. They wanted to face Hillary in November so they went soft on her (on some sites like DrudgeReport and Instapundit they were practically openly campaigning for Billary). At the same time they were attacking Obama 24/7 non-stop with lies, personal attacks, and everything in between. At one point they became so desperate to boost Shillary that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter endorsed her. Needless to say their plan failed. But in the meantime, they've already shot their wad of dirty tricks on Obama.
yeah...'cause it's not like they believe in their divine right to rule
over us like petty thugs or anything.
Obama/Clinton; Clinton/Obama (they are the same candidate with the same
voting resord).
At the Convention, they should make nice and flip a coin for the ticket.
It's as good an administration as were ever going to get.
If everyone really want to see 'Change'(tm) and 'Hope'(tm) and all the
rest, we would have been behind Kucinich from the beginning. After all,
he's been right about everything for the past 10 yrs, live's a cleaner
life than any one else in the fray, and has NO skeletons.
WOW. So true.
I wish I had those kind of bragging rights. (sn)
Billie boy can give Hillary's so called campaign a few forks in the road, so how come the media hasn't revealed more thus far?
Charming to have someone with that kind of mouth as President of the United States! Ohhh, yes, we already DO have someone like that as President of the United States.
my bad....
What a piece of crap this website has become. The level and quality of posts, the "reporting" (really just stealing what other sites scoop) and commenting has plummetted to such lows that it's just not worth reading anymore. It's just a waste of time coming here anymore. I had enough Clinton bashing from the Right in the '90s. It's no wonder most posts get only a handful of comments. Even the most benign posts at C&L, or TPM, or FDL get dozens of comments. This site has become a childish hatefest. "Progessive" blog? Hardly. I'm outta here.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves!
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Sorry you feel that way, I felt that you had merit in your comments. Can't we all validate our feelings about what has come of this disgusting Primary?
Yes we can!
If only your candidate Billary would say the same. We can dream can't we?
Ciao!
I like The Walrus. I like many folks who don't agree with me...take my Father in Law for one!
I know it's hard to hear stuff about our candidate that we don't like, heck it makes me cross eyed sometimes; but I just can't NOT say how I see the race to date.
In my private life I completely agree.. Differences and opposites make life so much fun!
I have Republican friends and family. Yet, we all get along IN SPITE of what they would have us do...Fight. Hate.
Most of us get so friggin' self-righteous about politics.. Myself a prime example.
I separate the blogosphere from that though because this is in a sense ideological warfare here.
I soooo love the way you are and miss your absences but when you are going against the likes of a McCain or Hillary, we need both the sensible mallet and the 500lb wrecking ball.
I 'm somewhere in between those.
:)
Yes, isn't it curious that we all are so connected and self righteous about our political views? I can't say the same about other feelings; religion, sex, power, politics in the office, sex...
And I do agree that in the blogosphere is where I come to rant and rave against all that I can't while walking down the street on any given day. It is where I find some solace, peace and fun. And thank god for the fun!
I miss you as well when I am away from this place, but I know I can always look forward to having some fun when I come back. You state your feelings with humor and heart. I particularly like the heart part....
Incompetent!
Directionless Leadership!
Bought and paid for by lobbists!
McCain whole organization is nothing but lobbists panting at the chance to feed on tax payer's money. McCain will feed them!
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Actually I'm currently putting together a little "sumptin" about McSame. I know I will have to buy Cliff Schecter's new book to help pump up those lists!
In any event, the old man has one heck of a lot in his history that shocks even me. This should be fairly easy, but that doesn't mean beating him will be so...I have lost such trust in the general public. After electing George Bush 2x to the Presidency, I wonder just how much I trust the overall view anymore.
she is playing nice, what a sociopath