Hillary Clinton’s foundation received donations from foreign governments and agency promoting Keysto

[Ramses]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hillary-clintons-foundation-received-donations-from-foreign-governments-and-agency-promoting-keystone-xl-10055024.html

As Hillary Clinton increasingly is mentioned as the top Democratic 2016 presidential candidate, a look into donations to her foundation by the Wall Street Journal has revealed gifts from foreign governments and a Canadian agency supporting the Keystone XL pipeline.

Mrs Clinton has yet to confirm that she will run for president in next year’s elections, but she is easily the most popular option in a limited field. Should she run, some donations to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation could raise ethical questions.

When Mrs Clinton began her service as US secretary of state in 2009, the foundation stopped accepting gifts from foreign governments. But Mrs Clinton has rejoined the foundation and it again has been accepting donations from overseas.

Among the nations that have donated money to the foundation are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia, Germany and a Canadian government agency that promotes the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

[Scuba]

1. Won't matter to those who worship her.

[Ramses]

4. Its funny, she has not even declared at this point

And the long knives are coming out fast and furious. The 99% will get nothing but more of the same and fall further and further to the right.

[Agschmid]

12. You seem to be the one drawing the knives... careful don't cut yourself.

[Ramses]

17. Projection is a term Im sure you are familiar with

I dont play those games

[Agschmid]

21. Nah bro you don't.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Yeah, but she's so Dreamy! That is, after all, what got Bill elected.

American voters are soooo, ugh.

[William769]

8. And Bill was such a bad fucking president!

A little hint President Clinton left Office with a approval rating that Rivaled FDR.

[NYC_SKP]

11. He was the middle of a Bush Sandwich that followed a Reagan administration.

Pretty hard not to look good!

[William769]

14. Leaving a surplus after the Reagan years didn't hurt either.

Just saying.

[reddread]

38. GW tried to savor it

but it just didnt mean much in the long run.

[LanternWaste]

55. That's a creative way to rationalize approval ratings which don't validate a preexisting bias.

That's a creative way to rationalize approval ratings which don't validate a preexisting bias.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

30. +1

[Kelvin Mace]

35. yeah, and on the way out the door

He gave Wall Street a HUGE present by getting rid of the FDR-era Glass-Stegall Act which paved the way for the obscene profits that followed and the economic meltdown the decimated the country.

Then there was NAFTA, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", DOMA welfare "reform".

So many things to be grateful for.

[Egnever]

41. Just out of curiosity

Were you alive when Don't ask don't tell was passed?

[Kelvin Mace]

49. Yep.

And I heard all the lame excuses for it. And DOMA.

[Ramses]

42. shhh...they are doing so good piling on the new guy here

Dont point out stuff like that. it'll ruin the doublespeak.

[AtomicKitten]

3. They can't give it to her directly ya know.

Ka-ching.

[Ramses]

5. One of the countries, Saudi Arabia that is mentioned

is where beheadings take place everyday, sanctioned by their theocratic government, and no one say a peep about it here in the US.
The Keystone Pipeline support from the agency in Canada is just dirty icing on the decrepit cake. I guess I must be one of the tens of millions of "haters". This country is in for a world of hurt either way in 2016, if its a false choice between two corporate candidates. We need Bernie Sanders to run at this point.

[840high]

37. ...^ that

[Rex]

6. Rule one; there is no such thing as conflict of interest if it is your pony.

I've learned this since the New Democrats showed up howling about how good corporations are for us. I guess this place had to finally lose the Underground after Dubya crawled away.

Sigh.

[Ramses]

10. Im a new poster here, and Ive already gotten a taste of the pile on

Hillary Clinton's foreign policy in particular, is to the RIGHT of most republicans. That should deeply concern any rational person here. Im afraid the continued lurch to the right will continue, and there is little millions of people can about it, until it gets too bad in this country.

I am astounded at the level and quantity of propaganda telling us we better support another corporate candidate. Its frightening actually.

[Agschmid]

13. Patently false...

Hillary Clinton's foreign policy in particular, is to the RIGHT of most republicans.

Am I shocked you posted it? No.

[winter is coming]

20. +1. Definitely a try-hard. n/t

[emulatorloo]

43. As were his insinuations that Clinton is anti-choice and anti-women's rights

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026245222

[Rex]

27. Well it was different on DU2 when Dubya was in office. We had a common enemy.

Now we notice things like libertarian think tanks and investment bankers calling the shots. Totally different now then it was. HRC is not to the right of the GOP...you really don't know the Grand Old Party if you really believe that. She is her own flavor of capitalist called a Centrist. Long story short, they like a few principle ideas of Reaganomics and believe it can be melded with social policy. Basically nice neoliberals, if that can be believed.

That lurch to the right is true, but you got a long ways to go to reach the Tea Party. They can't even keep the government running for more than a day.

[Agschmid]

29. Yup.

[spanone]

7. so?

[Egnever]

9. Oh the horror!

The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation works to improve global health, strengthen economies, promote health and wellness, and protect the environment by fostering partnerships among governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private citizens to turn good intentions into measurable results. Since 2001, the Clinton Foundation’s work has resulted in more than 5 million people benefiting from lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment; more than 19,000 U.S. schools building healthier learning environments; more than 55,000 micro-entrepreneurs, small business owners, and smallholder farmers improving their livelihoods and communities; and more than 248 million tons of CO2 being reduced in cities around the world. And Clinton Global Initiative members have made more than 2,500 commitments that are improving the lives of more than 430 million people in more than 180 countries.

That is some nefarious shit I have to admit.

[mopinko]

15. nefarious i tell you.

ha. i skimmed your post and didnt even notice your comment until i had typed the same.

[Egnever]

18. You should see what they did a couple of weeks ago

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Clinton Presidential Center hosted a Day of Action this morning in Little Rock, Arkansas. At 4:30 a.m., dozens of volunteers, including Clinton Presidential Center staff and friends, worked to prepare and serve breakfast for 94 residents at Our House shelter. Our House empowers homeless and near-homeless families and individuals to succeed in the workforce, in school, and in life through active participation in the community, and has the only licensed child development center for homeless children in Arkansas. Each year, Our House servers more than 77,000 meals, which are provided and served by the community.

Much more of that kind of stuff and someone is definitely going to have to do something about it.

[mopinko]

23. the bastards!!

[Ramses]

16. WOW

Let me guess, this is coming directly from the Clinton foundation website? Who knew taking money from agencies that want the Keystone Pipeline "protects the environment". Will wonders never cease

[Egnever]

19. Yes those companies like Australia

Fuck Australia!

They don't even live on the right side of the globe!

[Ramses]

22. Australia isn't a company

Its a nation.

[Egnever]

25. .

[Agschmid]

26. He shoots... he scores!

[Agschmid]

24. Their toilets are f*ed up... Always flushing the wrong way.

[Egnever]

28. Makes me want to puke

Something just wrong about it we should move them to pluto or something.

[babylonsister]

33. Thanks, exactly. Yawn. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

31. Snort

This board is continuing its proud condition of being a parody of itself.

[Ramses]

34. "condition"?

your software probably meant to spell the word tradition

[DemocratSinceBirth]

39. Yeah, tradition, ty./NT

[JaneyVee]

32. So a Canadian agency that also supports KXL

Does that mean if I give her money and support single payer she's a commie pinko?

[Egnever]

36. Why yes, yes it does.

Dont you dare!

[Lint Head]

40. Anyone donating to anything may not have the exact views on any particular subject or political

preference to the cause they are contributing to.

[cherokeeprogressive]

44. I think you're getting away with posts meant to do nothing other than to sow hate and division.

[Ramses]

45. im posting articles that show Hillary's real agenda

If you dont like reading about Hillary's policies, dont read and you wont bother your mind with such things

[Scuba]

47. Apparently the idea of a quid pro quo is beyond their grasp.

[DeSwiss]

46. But, but, but......

...it's her turn dammit!!! I mean, what kinda rigged system we got going here?

- To paraphrase JP Morgan (in reference to Teddy Roosevelt): ''When I rig a system I expect for it to stay rigged!''

K&R

[center]Queen Hils / Reign: 2016 to ~
[/center]

[brooklynite]

50. Apparently, you couldn't make a cogent argument, so you went for the cheap shot?

How...FREE REPUBLIC of you.

Imagine, if a Hillary Clinton supporter had posted any of these photos, what the reaction would be.

[lild]

52. punching down is hard work

You are doing great at it!

[bigtree]

48. show me how she directly benefited from the foundation donations

...because I can show you, for instance, how Jeb Bush's China investments directly benefited him.

These donations are being represented as personal donations to the Clintons and even as campaign donations. It's a sleazy political smear and it doesn't even attempt to track where the money is spent by the charitable organization or make any attempt at all to outline what the foundation does. I'll admit there is an appearance of impropriety (the keystone donations should be returned, imo, but I think she and Kerry both support the pipeline and Kerry actually has investments related to Keystone), but I think this line of attack is mostly about innuendo and smear, rather than illegality or actual wrongdoing. It's the conservative's line-of-attack du jour today, so you're walking in some muddy footprints.

Conservative group wants Clintons to return foreign money | TheHill
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/233179-conservative-group-wants-clinton-foundation-to-return-foreign-money

[KoKo]

53. The money does need to be tracked...

If it was a Republican Candidate we Dems would want to know how the Foundation Money is spent and if it was combined or mingled with Political Money accidentally (poor accounting) or intentionally. The amount of money Clinton Foundation has received (2 Billion I think was posted here in another article) is large enough that it deserves to have public scrutiny.

Same thing for Jeb Bush if he runs and has participation in any Bush Family Charities or Enterprises.

[bigtree]

54. Jeb's 'charities' are less of a concern than his investments

What's worse? Foreign donations to Hillary's charity, or, Jeb profiting from foreign investments?

Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 27 list Bush as chairman and manager of a new offshore private equity fund, BH Global Aviation, which raised $61 million in September, largely from foreign ­investors. In November the fund ­incorporated in the United Kingdom and Wales­—a ­structure, several independent finance lawyers say, that operates like a tax haven by allowing overseas investors to avoid U.S. taxes and regulations.

more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026248090

[VanillaRhapsody]

51. Its called the Clinton Foundation

formed after BILL left office...Its philanthropic...not a SuperPac to get her elected.

You might want to read about the many many good things that they do....before you criticise..

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=the+Clinton+Foundation+programs