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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This is something I strenuously object to if reported correctly. Foreign powers have no business hiring American citizens or politicians to lobby on their behalf.
It's bad enough we have huge domestic lobbies; it drowns out individual voices and attempts to manipulate public opinion. It should be outlawed. It won't. We've done gone global, and I guess we have to sit and watch our country be conquered by unchecked immigration and buyouts.
I had some other thoughts but couldn't put them together. Novak (don't know what he is columnist or commentator for) allegedly according to a poster on discussions.bbcamerica.com claimed Clinton tried to secure a job for Joe Lockhart with the UAE, and there were details about the speaking honoraria $300,000 X 2 plus $1 mil to the library. I'd like to find a source for that, if any, tried and failed. Maybe somebody else in the forum picked up on it or it is old news now.
The Novak article is posted here at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588424/posts
Thanks, BigSky.
The democrat's Sargeant Schultz.
Sure, just like she didn't know about all of Bill's women who she threatened and bribed to maintain silence.
One thing that Hillary and Bill have in common. It's like George Washington in reverse: They cannot tell a truth.
Hillary knew/knows ALL about Bill's affair with the UAE. Hillary ALWAYS knows about Bill's "affairs."
ping
"I don't recall I have no independent memory of that I don't recall and in any case didn't Maggie and the other consiglieres and good fellows clean out that office and that apartment after I had him murdered?"
She's lying.
YEAH!!! THAT'S RIGHT! MAKE BILL GIVE BACK THE MONEY.
Hmmmm... Looks like my daughter. You're not making fun of my daughter, are you?
The least the GOP should do, is try to tie the "lobbying scandal" into this.....so the dems will quit saying that it is all a Republican corruption case.
So far we have Bubba, Maddie Notsobright, and Tommy Daschle all tied to this Dubai deal...and Hillary.
Just call on Bill Clinton to give back the money. See how the Dems deal with that.
Unaware? Not likely.
LOL...that is a good idea.
Just think about this....about the same time that Bubba was lobbying with Dubai and getting money, his VP was in Saudi Arabia telling audiences that Americans were rounding up and torturing Arabs after 9/11....
Those two really have forsaken the USA to pander to the Arab countries, haven't they??
Call on Al Gore to give back the money, too.
This is just SO delicious!
Doen't sound like the smartest women in the world, more like the dumbest lesbo in the world.
Slick has major financial ties to the UAE.He has accepted big bucks from the sheiks.
As the husband ( HINO ) of a US Senator, he should be forced to disclose all ties and money received from foreign governments.
They do have joint bank accounts and file joint tax returns, don't they?
I always felt he would never really want her to be POTUS. Could it be he is sabotaging her ambitions?
She jumped at this to go against Bush really fast, without thinking.
The smartest woman in the whole world doesn't know what is going on under her own roof ( metaphorically speaking :+})
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