Posted on 04/15/2008 11:44:43 PM PDT by indcons
In brief comments on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania, former President Clinton said that his fundraising relationship with a Chinese company involved in Internet censorship did not pose a potential conflict of interest for his wife's presidential campaign.
Even though the Chinese Web firm, Alibaba Inc., recently carried a government-issued Internet "wanted notice" urging the arrest of Tibetan protesters, he said that he backed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's tough words on China.
"I support the Dalai Lama and I support Hillary's position," he said in remarks posted online today by the New York Observer. He made the comments Sunday during a campaign event for his wife in Bloomsburg, Pa.
In recent weeks, Sen. Clinton has issued strong statements about mainland China's crackdown in Tibet and urged President Bush to boycott the opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing. She has also called for a "dialogue" between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama.
But her stance appears at odds with her husband's dealings with Alibaba and his 2005 speech at an Internet forum in Hangzhou, China. A Times article Sunday,1,254417.story reported that Alibaba paid for some of his expenses and donated an unspecified amount to his foundation after the speech.
Alibaba has been accused by human rights groups of cooperating with Chinese officials in their scrutiny of mainland Internet users.
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That’s going to leave a mark...
I doubt it. Nothing else ever has......
FMCDH(BITS)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves........
Bubba’s bank account says differently.
Is the MSM figuring out why Unca Bill is $abotaging Hillary'$ campaign?
....its' simple; Bubba wants, $hrillary to be throughly Hum(a :)iliated....its' great theater/sells more newspapers...mutually benefiting
In other news....
Bill Clinton says blow jobs are not sex.
Chelsea is his daughter.
Black is white.
What Bill says, goes!
Typical of a hypocrite... what else is new?
IIRC, Alibaba _means_ “thief”.
I was looking for various business supply sources and discovered that a search turned up numerous “alibaba” postings. The name alone would have turned me off these suppliers, all of which are, of course, Chinese.
Alibubba!
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