Posted on 05/04/2015 8:51:06 AM PDT by Zakeet
Bubba threw a pity party on the Today Show.
For those of you who didn't catch the MSM newser news, probably just about everyone these days, here is a link to the video.
You might want to have a box of tissues handy ... cause this short clip is a real tear jerker!
The Red Chinese Army already paid for the house...
He can’t die soon enough for me.
Highlights of BJ Clintonspeak at it’s finest.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bill-clinton-defends-his-foundations-foreign-money-n352981
Bill Clinton Defends His Foundation’s Foreign Money
By Cynthia McFadden
Bill Clinton says he has no regrets about taking millions in foreign cash for his foundation — even though the donations have caused a political headache for Hillary Clinton as she tries to follow him into the Oval Office.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden, the former president said his charity has never done anything “knowingly inappropriate.”
Under pressure, the foundation recently announced it will only accept contributions from six Western governments going forward, but Clinton says that’s no acknowledgment the old policy — under which Saudi Arabia gave between $10 million and $25 million, for instance — was a mistake.
“Absolutely not,” Clinton told NBC News during his current tour of Africa to visit a wide variety of the foundation’s projects.
“It’s an acknowledgement that we’re going to come as close as we can during her presidential campaign to following the rules we followed when she became secretary of state.”
“I gotta pay our bills. And I also give a lot of it to the foundation every year.”
“There is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of American government policy,” he said. “That just hasn’t happened.”
It’s unclear if the new ban on foreign money, along with an agreement to update donor lists more frequently, will quiet insinuations that overseas contributions to the foundation — accounting for more than half of those who gave $5 million or more — bought access to the woman who may become the next president of the United States.
Jake Whitman
But Bill Clinton says he’s not worried about the criticism, brushing it off as “political.” He quoted his wife as telling him: “No one has ever tried to influence me by helping you.”
He claimed there has been a “very concerted effort to bring the foundation down” and said he might even step down as its head if his wife is elected.
“I might if I were asked to do something in the public interest that I had an obligation to do. Or I might take less of an executive role,” he said. “But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”
One thing he won’t stop doing: giving high-priced speeches, even though he acknowledges being a wealthy man these days, reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars.
“I gotta pay our bills,” he said. “And I also give a lot of it to the foundation every year.”
The fees — $500,000 or more for 11 speeches while his wife was Secretary of State — are justified, he insisted.
“I spend a couple of hours a day just doing the research. People like to hear me speak,” he said.
“We do our best to vet them,” he said of the groups that pay for his talks. “And I have turned down a lot of them. If I think there’s something wrong with it, I don’t take it.”
He also says he has turned down donations to the foundation — though he won’t say from where.
“Since I turned it down, I don’t need to talk about it,” he said. “We’ve got over 300,000 donors and 90 percent of them have given $100 or less.”
“All I’m saying is the idea that there’s one set of rules for us and another set for everybody else is true.”
Throughout the interview, Clinton repeatedly turned to the question of transparency, declaring that his foundation discloses more about the source of its donations than those of other ex-presidents.
Asked about a series of tax forms on which the foundation did not list any contributions under a section for donations from foreign governments — rolling the sum into overall revenue, instead of breaking it out — Clinton said it was an innocent mistake.
“The guy that filled out the forms made an error,” he said. “Now that is a bigger problem, according to the press, than the other people running for president willing to take dark money, secret money, secret from beginning to end.”
The problem, he said, is not that the Clintons don’t have to play by the rules that apply to everyone else — it’s that the family is held to a higher standard.
“People should draw their own conclusions. I’m not in politics,” the former president said. “All I’m saying is the idea that there’s one set of rules for us and another set for everybody else is true.”
“The people who have attacked the foundation have practiced selective nondisclosure,” he added, “I really trust the American people to figure it out. I always have. And so far, I haven’t been disappointed.”
If he was troubled by the criticism at home it was not evident as he patiently posed for pictures, shook hands and talked at every stop with dozens - sometimes hundreds - of people. He was clearly touched by the kids who often welcomed him with songs written just for his visit.
Clinton said all the work — the long hours and often rough travel — is worth it.
“The lives we save and the impact we’ve had,” he said, “I’m proud o
What does Jeff Dunham call this latest dummy?
It has Walter’s mouth!
Whores cost a lot of money.
He can’t die soon enough for me.
I wouldn’t say that.
But I believe he is nothing like we’re going to see from barack hussen obamar after his two terms are up.
He can’t die soon enough for me.
I was think along the same line... Why doesn’t this F’er die and leave us alone.
Any one have the figures of how much $$$ the tax payers expend for their benefit. Security ,salary etc
Wonder how much of that slush fund goes to keep him alive?
Isn’t he on blood thinner?
Hillary was so “dead broke”, she couldn’t pay attention to Ben Ghazi!
Nothing says “We’re Dirt Poor” more than getting only $500,000 for a one hour speech.
It’s hard out there for a pimp...
RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization)
Bill Clinton saying this is akin to GOD saying he needs exercise.
I am more concerned about the idiots and foreigners paying him that. Sad world.
“I got to pay our Bills”
First of all, is he talking Ebonics or channeling Hillary’s “I ain’t no ways tired” Speech in a Black Church?
Secondly, he’s a Democrat. They don’t believe in self responsibility, the Government is supposed to pay their Bills.
I used to think Biden more resembled Dunham's "Walter" character, but Clinton has moved right up there with slow-Joe.
See what you think.
BINGO they got a hell of a deal for their satellite program from him.
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