This 'woman' has so much political baggage it's difficult to envision any scenario in which she could actually get elected. The dims will be making a huge mistake if they nominate this witch.
The beast has comparable Clintonista revisionists toiling today.
Shopping at Wal-Mart, then, means that one is implicitly supporting Herself.
Together with the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" acting as an unregistered foreign agent, in his support for the Dubai Ports World bid for several US port terminals, can it be long before the foreign money is steered to investment in Wal-Mart?
Wouldn't it be awesome if somebody up the Wal-Mart food chain had Hillary's eggs in a basket and decided to show them to us?
News Story
US Sen Clinton's Wal-Mart Ties Trigger Political Headache
12:12 PM EST March 10, 2006
NEW YORK (AP)--With retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT) under fire to improve its labor and health-care policies, one Democrat with deep ties to the company - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - has started feeling her share of the political heat.
Clinton served on Wal-Mart's board of directors for six years when her husband was governor of Arkansas. And the Rose Law Firm, where she was a partner, handled many of the Arkansas-based company's legal affairs.
Hillary Clinton had kind words for Wal-Mart as recently as 2004, when she told an audience at the convention of the National Retail Federation that her time on the board "was a great experience in every respect."
But in recent months, as the company has become a target for Democratic activists, she has largely steered clear of any mention of Wal-Mart. And late last year, Clinton's re-election campaign returned a $5,000 contribution from Wal-Mart, citing "serious differences with current company practices."
As Clinton sheds her Arkansas past and looks ahead to a possible 2008 presidential run, the Wal-Mart issue presents an exquisite dilemma: how to reconcile the political demands she faces today with her history at a company many U.S. consumers depend upon but many Democratic activists revile.
"The interesting question is not just Hillary Clinton's history at Wal-Mart, but why it's delicate for her to talk about Wal-Mart," said Charles Fishman, author of "The Wal-Mart Effect," a book on the company's impact on the national economy. "Plenty of Democrats denounce Wal-Mart, but there are also plenty of people who need it, love it and rely on it."
In 1986, when Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, tapped Clinton to be the company's first female board member, Wal-Mart was a fraction of its current size, with $11.9 billion in net sales.
Today, Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer and largest private employer, with over $312 billion in sales last year and 1.3 million employees or "associates" in the U.S. alone. But recently, the company has drawn intense scrutiny for its labor practices - from its wages to the lack of affordable health coverage for employees, to its stiff resistance to unionization.
The Wal-Mart debate has been playing out in Legislatures and city councils around the country in the last year, even hitting close to Clinton's adopted home.
New York State legislators of both parties are promoting bills requiring businesses including Wal-Mart to provide health coverage to their workers. And in October, New York City passed a law, aimed squarely at Wal-Mart, requiring large grocery stores to pay most workers a health-care benefit worth an estimated $2.50 to $3 an hour. The law helped stall Wal-Mart's efforts to move into the city, even though recent polls indicate a majority of New Yorkers would welcome Wal-Mart.
Amid the deluge of legislative proposals around the country, Wal-Mart CEO Scott Lee announced last month that the company would expand its effort to enroll more workers in a new, low-premium health plan. The company will also trim the waiting period for part-time employees to become eligible for coverage.
But Hillary Clinton, who as first lady proposed a wide-ranging but ultimately unsuccessful plan to reshape the nation's health-care system, has had little to say about Wal-Mart's health-care record.
"That was a long time ago," she said recently when asked if she had done anything about the company's health-care policies while she served on its board.
That comment was met with disbelief from Jonathan Tasini, a longtime labor organizer mounting a long-shot challenge to Clinton in New York's Democratic Senate primary.
"Voters would find it a strained argument to believe that the senator who prides herself on intelligence and knowledge of detail can't recall any details in this case. It just strains credulity," Tasini said.
Nonetheless, Clinton and her advisers continue to insist that Wal-Mart has fundamentally changed since her tenure on the board.
"Wal-Mart was a different company then and the country was not facing the same health-care challenges we face today," communications director Lorraine Voles said.
Even Clinton's decision to return Wal-Mart's campaign contribution illustrated the complicated role still Wal-Mart plays in her political life.
Wake-Up Wal-Mart posted several entries on its Web log applauding the decision, but others complained that the move seemed hypocritical and opportunistic given her history with the company.
Meanwhile, Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt called the move "standard operating procedure" for Clinton.
"When push comes to shove, the senator allows politics to trump principle every time," Schmitt said.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
03-10-06 1212ET
...she really puts the hippo in hypocrite.
Just one more reason for me to love WalMart.
Interesting.
The AP is trying to look objective, and unfortunately FReepers are resorting to the obligatory Hillary bashing than reading the obvious spin between the lines.
I wonder if Clinton has ties to JB Heinz, and Tyson foods as well. As they are also Arkansas based giants of Industry.
Duhhh.
I don't like/don't shop at Wal-Mart because of their past support of the Clintoonz.
Biography
Bob Ortega is an award winning investigative reporter, who covered Wal-Mart for the Wall Street Journal for five years. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He previously worked at the Seattle Times and The Anchorage Times and has contributed articles to numerous other publications. He lives in Chandler, Arizona.
The director of the International Center for Journalists in Georgia, Robert Ortega
Bob Ortega, an independent journalist who was a Knight International Press Fellow in Paraguay in 1999. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Director of the Journalism School in Tblisi, Georgia, a program administered by ICFJ in Georgia. Ortega worked as a consultant for IREX in Belarus from 2003 to 2005. Previously, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and wrote several histories of Guatemala and Mexico.
Bob Ortega, a former correspondent in Guatemala for the "Wall Street Journal."
Robert Ortega, an American journalist who has done media development work over many years in Latin America, in Belarus, and in Georgia where he ran ICFJ’s part of the USAID-funded ProMedia program.