Posted on 03/04/2006 12:21:35 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper
Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute.
But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife.
Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002.
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Sigmund Freud had a name for this condition; he termed it "selective amnesia".
The only reason Hillary is pissed is that she believes the money going to the port deal is rightly her's.
"unaware" or just "didn't recall"?
She's an expert on both.
I try to remember that this is the season of "dirt control" for many politicans. THEY KNOW what kind of dirt they have in their backgrounds and they also know that the OPPOSITION knows (or will eventually find out). Therefore, politicians will air their dirty laundry on their own terms, well in advance of the campaign season, so that any "shock value" disappears and by the time the campaign season heats up in earnest, it's all "old news".
It may have been Hillary's camp who got this Dubai stuff out there.
What do you expect when they only sleep together at funerals.
If she's telling the truth, that would make her about as competent as Kathleen Blanco.
Lancey Howard has a name for it, too; "pathological lying".
Just like she claimed that she didn't know who Moctar Riady was... but then, lo and behold a picture of her meeting with him shows up...
She's a liar.
So is her husband.
Nice trajectory. Cow must have sneezed or coughed.
Well, one thing for sure. We can always count Hitlery to lie.
STUPID PEOPLE UNITE! ELECT HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT IN '08!
The Koran commands you....
"Husband" BJ pulls in $450K and the "wife" Hitlery doesn't know about it? OK.
Don't do that to me, please. :)
These are the same reporters that get ecstatic in reporting Laura Bush feels a different way about something than her husband does.
The amended paperbacks.....
I wonder....If x42i was working for a Dubai company during 2005, does he have to declare the income on his tax return ?
If so, do the Clintons file a joiunt return ?
If so, her signature on the return says she knew.
Last night on FOX (Hannity & Colmes) Dick Morris listed a whole series of speaking engagements and emoluments (including 3/4 of a million for the Clinton library) that Bubba received for his support of the UAE. Morris said that legally he should be required to register as a lobbyist and spokesman for a foreign government. I tried to locate the transcript of his commentary but it wasn't available. In any case, it involved a whole series of actions and statements which -- in the aggregate -- clearly indicated Clinton was in the tank for Dubai. But why shouldn't he be forgiven? Just as he forgave Mark Rich and others by selling them pardons?
You know, the truly painful part of this is that there are actually people who will believe this rot.
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