Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation – that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal NYT has no such scruples. The killer quote is this:
For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.
Over a year ago Bill Clinton met with some aides and lawyers to review the Foundation's progress and concluded that it was a mess. Well, many political start-ups can be, especially when their sole selling point is the big name of their founder
The NYT website must be getting hammered behind this story because it is completely offline at the moment of this posting.
Anyway, imagine that............the Clinton Foundation is either irresponsible—or corrupt—with money? Republicans ought to beat that drum hard in 2016.
I put this in the "Politics" forum because anything involving a potential Hillary Clinton presidency involves the future health of the 2nd Amendment.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation – that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal NYT has no such scruples. The killer quote is this:
For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.
Over a year ago Bill Clinton met with some aides and lawyers to review the Foundation's progress and concluded that it was a mess. Well, many political start-ups can be, especially when their sole selling point is the big name of their founder
The NYT website must be getting hammered behind this story because it is completely offline at the moment of this posting.
Anyway, imagine that............the Clinton Foundation is either irresponsible—or corrupt—with money? Republicans ought to beat that drum hard in 2016.
I put this in the "Politics" forum because anything involving a potential Hillary Clinton presidency involves the future health of the 2nd Amendment.
Do you have any faith that they will? They seem wholly unwilling to pick the bounty of low-hanging fruit comprised of high-profile Democrat pecadillos.
Limbaugh just supposed what I was thinking, that is that this story was released at this time so it can blow over before 2016.
The education system in this country has successfull shortened our collective attention span to that of a gnat.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison
The Annoyed Man wrote:Anyway, imagine that............the Clinton Foundation is either irresponsible—or corrupt—with money? Republicans ought to beat that drum hard in 2016.
I put this in the "Politics" forum because anything involving a potential Hillary Clinton presidency involves the future health of the 2nd Amendment.
You're very generous. The correct answer is thoroughly corrupt.
"Journalism, n. A job for people who flunked out of STEM courses, enjoy making up stories, and have no detectable integrity or morals."
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison
Get the story out to avoid an October surprise sprung by her primary opposition or the Republican candidate. I'm surprised it wasn't released on a Friday. Bring it up now so later she can say this is old news and what difference does it make.
But the changing of the guard has aggravated long-simmering tensions within the former first family’s inner circle as the foundation tries to juggle the political and philanthropic ambitions of a former president, a potential future president, and their increasingly visible daughter.
And efforts to insulate the foundation from potential conflicts have highlighted just how difficult it can be to disentangle the Clintons’ charity work from Mr. Clinton’s moneymaking ventures and Mrs. Clinton’s political future, according to interviews with more than two dozen former and current foundation employees, donors and advisers to the family. Nearly all of them declined to speak for attribution, citing their unwillingness to alienate the Clinton family.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
