Hill vs. Bill: first Columbia, now Tibet, what next??

[DemsUnited]

From the LA Times

Bill Clinton, China linked via his foundation

A firm that has donated to the president's charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists. Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China's actions.

By Stephen Braun,
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 13, 2008

NEW YORK -- As Chinese authorities have clamped down on unrest in Tibet and jailed dissidents in advance of the 2008 Olympics, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken a strong public stance, calling for restraint in Tibet and urging President Bush to boycott the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing.

But her recent stern comments on China's internal crackdown collide with former President Bill Clinton's fundraising relationship with a Chinese Internet company accused of collaborating with the mainland government's censorship of the Web. Last month, the firm, Alibaba Inc., carried a government-issued "most wanted" posting on its Yahoo China homepage, urging viewers to provide information on Tibetan activists suspected of stirring recent riots.

Alibaba, which took over Yahoo's China operation in 2005 as part of a billion-dollar deal with the U.S.-based search engine, arranged for the former president to speak to a conference of Internet executives in Hangzhou in September 2005. Instead of taking his standard speaking fees, which have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000, Clinton accepted an unspecified private donation from Alibaba to his international charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation.

Rest of article at: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-clintonchina13apr13,0,499290.story

[tekisui]

1. If it could win PA votes-Hillary is for it, regardless of Bill.

If it could lose PA votes-Hillary is against it, regardless of Bill.

[Zachstar]

2. Clinton needs to address this.

[DemsUnited]

3. agree, just as she further needs to address the Columbia

conflict between herself and bill. a laugh and a "we disagree" doesn't cut it.

[Zachstar]

4. I wonder why some people bought it.

Oh well the Bill situation was getting out of control before she sprung the short term gain long term loss bittergate.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Please edit the OP, it's Colombia, not Columbia

[anonymous171]

6. lol. Thus, Bittergate.

Deflect, deflect.

[Zachstar]

7. No Bittergate was to deflect attention from the rebirth of Snipergate, Penngate and Billgate

She can't use it to talk about this.

April may be for the Clintons but in May Obama is going to all over the place. (Many Obama win state conventions and Bittergate now a Clintongate)

[NJmaverick]

8. What a shock, more of the Clinton's actions not matching their words

[Zachstar]

9. Thankfully we wont have to deal with much of that from a democrat during the GE at this rate.

I give a 85 percent chance Obama will take the nomination in my view.