Bradley: Bill Clinton's Financial Backers Could Pose Big Problem

[tabasco]

"And the reason that is important -- you know, are there favors attached to $500,000 or $1 million contributions? And what do I mean by favors? I mean, pardons that are granted; investigations that are squelched; contracts that are awarded; regulations that are delayed."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/06/bradley-bill-clintons-f_n_90283.html

What are the Clintons hiding from Democratic voters?

RELEASE THE RECORDS NOW!

[papau]

1. what bullshit - a basketball player says money corrupts - yep - he would know

[jakem]

2. i reckon clintons have taken more payoffs than bradley...

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Former Democratic Senator Bill Bradley

Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley.

[VolcanoJen]

8. The alienation of Democratic leaders is pretty disturbing.

Kerry, Kennedy, Bradley, Hart, Lewis, just for starters... will there be any Democrats left to admire by the time this Clinton power-grab runs its course among Clintonistas?

[burythehatchet]

11. I get this image of the bully in the playground harassing the kids

and finally taking their ball. All the kids go home and the bully wonders why no one will play with him.

[VolcanoJen]

14. It's just crazy.

Now the board is full of Clintonistas saying Keith Olbermann is a hack and he cannot be tolerated. Same goes for Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller, David Schuster... anyone who dares question The Princess.

[elmerdem]

4. are you kidding me?

Bill Bradley didn't play in the day of million dollar a year contracts in the NBA. Ignorance is bliss!

[NightWatcher]

6. just more of that Hillary Cult groupthink behavior

[Debi]

5. Yep, that's all he is, just a basketball player

[burythehatchet]

9. The problem with putting cretins on Ignore is you miss out on the lughable comments.

That's OK, the sanity is worth it.

[Debi]

13. Well, you get the drift...Bill Bradley...just a basketball player pffffftttt n/t

[damonm]

7. More trumpeting of ignorance...

[tabasco]

10. LOL. Saint Hillary & Saint Bill - above scrutiny.

Anyone who criticizes the holy ones are blasphemers!

Only a fool would trust politicians who are hiding financial records.

[surfin]

15. Truth is hurting you

Let us all see who is giving them money. You do not give money unless you get something. Wake up.

[Shakespeare]

You are a sad, sad person. n/t

[Shakespeare]

19. You are a sad, sad person. n/t

[cali]

27. nominated for most embarassingly silly and vapid post of the day

oh yeah, and utterly dishonest too. Bill Bradley is a former U.S. Senator, former contender for the dem nomination for President and former Rhodes scholar. Yep, he damned well would know. And why do YOU think the Clintons are so reluctant to release a tax return that's now a year old? Why do YOU think the Clintons are so secretive?

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

:thumbsup:

[ProgressiveEconomist]

28. Kick!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

16. Bradley raises a question I have not seen addressed anywhere: a major foundation

headed by the spouse of a sitting president could be a perfect conduit for quid pro quos.

Even while neither Clinton was in office, Bill helped secure his friend Frank Giustra a huge Kazakhstan uranium contract for which his firm was unqualified. The New York Times (at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?pagewanted=1&ref=politics ) reported that in return, Giustra gave Clinton's library $100 million and Clinton's Foundation $31.3 million!

How many BILLIONS could Bill rake in with spousal control over all of the levers of control at the disposal of a sitting president, levers with which Bill is intimately experienced?

Shouldn't Bill at the least have to pledge to take a leave of absence from the Clinton Foundation for the duration of any HRC presidency, the same way most presidents and their families have put financial assets in blind trusts?

[MH1]

17. Yepper.

Surprising the media hasn't thought to look into this.

Okay, just kidding about it being "surprising".

[ProgressiveEconomist]

22. Remember Tom Delay's "Red Door"? pResident HRC's could be on 125st in Harlem

"BILL MOYERS: To follow Jack Abramoff's money trail, we will be coming back often to this red door. The town house at 132 D Street S.E. is just three short blocks from Tom DeLay's office on Capitol Hill. His staff called it his "safe house." It was bought by the U.S. Family Network - a non-profit outfit that said its mission was to restore "moral fitness" to American life."

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/print/capitolcrimes_transcript_print.html

[SKKY]

23. Oh Hilary. What a tangled web we weave...

[New Dawn]

18. K&R - the Clintons are fighters for the super-rich

[tabasco]

24. It appears they have been corrupted by power and wealth.

Hillary will not disclose her tax records and White House records before she is the nominee.

Good for Hillary. Bad for Democratic chances in November (if somehow she became the nominee).

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

20. I worked for Bradley's campaign in 2000.

I met him and had a long chat. He's a good guy and would have been a fantastic president.

[OhioChick]

21. K&R

:kick:

[MH1]

25. .

:dem:

[OneBlueSky]

26. I can't help but wonder if the Clintons have access to some offshore entities . . .

where they can insulate some of their massive income from U.S. taxes . . . given what I've heard about how much Bill has "earned" from foreign interests, I'd be surprised if all of it is reported on their tax returns and the appropriate income taxes paid . . . that may, in fact, be one of the reasons they are loathe to release their returns . . .