At this Point, What difference does it Make?
Posted on 02/25/2015 8:00:12 PM PST by PROCON
It has long been remarked that a certain Dogpatch air hangs over Bill and Hillary Clinton. They have, apparently, led separate lives for quite a few years, but one quality that they share is greed. Indeed, they seem unable to restrain that grasping instinct even when it undermines their presumably more important goals–as, for example, when Hillary extracts $300,000 from universities for 45 minutes of platitudes.
Tomorrow’s Washington Post reports that while Hillary was Secretary of State, “[t]he Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments.” How many millions? Weirdly, the Post doesn’t say. It does tell us that as of 2008–before Hillary became Secretary of State–”Saudi Arabia had given between $10 million and $25 million.”
Accepting donations to a family foundation from foreign governments while serving as Secretary of State represents extraordinarily bad judgment. Sure, most of the money went to bona fide charitable causes. But there are any number of ways to donate to, say, earthquake or flood relief. Does anyone seriously think that a foreign government would choose the Clinton Foundation as its preferred charitable vehicle unless it sought to curry favor with a) a former president and still leading figure in the Democratic Party, b) the Secretary of State, and c) a possible future president? How dumb do the Clintons think we are?
Moreover, there is reason to suspect that the Clinton Foundation has served as a slush fund to finance the Clintons’ private enjoyments. The New York Post reported in 2013 that the Clinton Foundation had spent more than $50 million on travel expenses since 2003. Think about that: $50 million! That would cover a lot of the globe-trotting for which the Clintons are famous.
Presumably when Bill rode the Lolita Express, the bills were paid by his convicted sex offender pal Jeffrey Epstein. But who knows what discreditable episodes may have been funded by the Clinton Foundation and its overseas donors, if any journalist took the trouble to check?
The Clintons’ problem is that they are, in fact, greedy. They are bound together by their lust for money. It isn’t a stretch for the average voter to understand that when Hillary extracts $300,000 per speech from public institutions–a laundered campaign contribution that would otherwise be illegal–and the family foundation rakes in millions from foreign governments while Hillary serves as Secretary of State, the Clintons are more interested in cashing on on their position and their notoriety than in serving the American people. You could compare them to the Kardashians, except that the Kardashians don’t pretend to be pursuing some higher goal.
At this Point, What difference does it Make?
When they die.
Pingy to your favorite politician.
The American people remember hearing an old adage: “Greed us good”; therefore they endorse a second Clinton for a third Clinton term, not a third Bush for a fourth Bush term.
The short answer is “no.” Their greed won’t do them in because the media will close ranks to protect them (unless they find another pro-abortion candidate who seems more electable).
The short answer is “no.” Their greed won’t do them in because the media will close ranks to protect them (unless they find another pro-abortion candidate who seems more electable).
Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride
Could be any one of those things.
Adultery, a trail of bodies, countless lies and crimes, treason, (etc) haven’t yet...but sooner or later, something will.
“Will the Clintons’ Greed Do Them In?”
I think they already were done in to a degree by their greed.
I think the only direction for them here on out is down.
MORE THAN wishful thinking.
Hillary’s State Department OK’d Bill’s big-money speeches
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261454/posts
Same university soaks hard working parents for exorbitant tuition fees, and tries to instill values foreign to same.
I think they have the whole package. Cheaper ya know.
The rational thing right now would be to see if there is a Democrat out there less vulnerable to scandal than the Clintons. Elizabeth Warren pops up but she has problems of her own. It likely has to be a progressive female.
Moreover, there is reason to suspect that the Clinton Foundation has served as a slush fund to finance the Clintons’ private enjoyments.
Good point.
I still don’t think Hitlery has the stamina to make it through a campaign. Unless she thinks she can sit back and be coronated.
If Jeb Bush is the best Republicans can come up with, I think it will take WAY more than their greed to do them in.
Foreign money to Democrat campaigns doesn’t seem to have repercussions.
It doesn’t matter even a little. Any Democrat with any baggage will beat Jeb Bush.
Is this guy just now figuring this out?
Apparently they think they’ll live forever. But the truth is their time on earth is the same as everyone else. And like me, theirs is getting close to the end. What will they do with all that money in hell?
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