Obama's FLAG PIN is Fair Game, but Clintons' Millions from Colombia, Dubai, Saudi Arabia Is Not?

Stephanie

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Wed Apr-16-08 09:15 PM
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Obama's FLAG PIN is Fair Game, but Clintons' Millions from Colombia, Dubai, Saudi Arabia Is Not?

Edited on Wed Apr-16-08 10:08 PM by Stephanie

The MILLIONS Bill is collecting from foreign entities and billionaire American cronies (Giustra, Burkle) goes into their joint assets which Hillary then taps whenever her campaign needs another $5 million. In effect, foreign governments and special interests are financing her campaign by funneling money to her through sweetheart deals with her husband.

But those questions are never raised because we are too busy asking Obama why he doesn't wear a FLAG PIN on his fucking lapel and querying why he knows somebody who used to be a 60s radical. When will the CLINTONS' shady associations, who are lining their pockets, be fair game? It's maddening.

WATCH LISA MYERS' REPORT ON THE CLINTONS' SHADY FINANCES!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24063294#24063294

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/08/bill-clintons-ties-to-col_n_95651.html?page=5

Bill Clinton's Ties To Colombia Trade Deal Stronger Than Even Penn's
by Sam Stein

Former President Bill Clinton has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars speaking on behalf of a Colombia-based group pushing the trade pact, and representatives of that organization tell The Huffington Post that the former president shared their sentiment.

In June 2005, Clinton was paid $800,000 by the Colombia-based Gold Service International to give four speeches throughout Latin America. The organization is, ostensibly, a development group tasked with bringing investment to the country and educating world leaders about the Colombia's business opportunities.

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In June 2007, Clinton received an award from President Uribe for his efforts to reverse the country's image in the United States. But there may have been more of a public relations purpose to the event. At the time, ABC News reported that "the Colombia government trying to counter its negative image among Washington Democrats and secure congressional passage of a free trade agreement."

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"It's clear that President Clinton has a chummy relationship with the Colombian president," said Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch at Public Citizen, "someone whose administration is under a cloud and under investigation for associations with murderous paramilitaries, and whose administration has seen hundreds of labor unionists assassinated but not prosecuted these crimes, and whose administration has been involved in the forced displacement of thousands of Afro-Colombians. Having President Clinton be chummy with such a person, and having him be the closest adviser of Senator Clinton, is extremely disconcerting."

This was not the only time Clinton and Uribe met. According to the Wall Street Journal, the former president hosted a "philanthropic event" with the Colombian leaders in September 2005. The purpose, the paper reported, was to introduce Uribe to Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining tycoon who was interested both in mineral rights and Colombian oil, a position that lent itself to a more open-trade environment.

Months earlier, Bloomberg News reported, Giustra had lent Clinton his private jet for Clinton's four day peaking tour in Latin America - the same tour in which Clinton received $800,000 from Gold Service International. And at some point in time, Giustra - who, the New York Times reported, won a Kazakh uranium deal with Clinton's help (again putting the former president at odds with his wife's positions) - donated more than $31 million to Clinton's charitable fund.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Uribe and Giustra "sat in the hallway speaking for about ten minutes. A Clinton aide later told Giustra the meeting had gone well." And indeed, last year a Canadian company that Giustra's investment firm advised successfully acquired oil fields in Colombia.