Vetting Hillary Clinton? Now that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

[trumad]

She's quite possibly the most vetted women in the history of the world.

[scheming daemons]

1. They're not vetting HER.... they're vetting Bill... specifically, his financial dealings since 2000

Which HAVEN'T been vetted.

[Metric System]

4. I'm sure Hillary's being vetted too. If Kerry is under consideration, I would assume Teresa will be

vetted as well. It goes with the territory.

[Metric System]

2. I understand your point. However, she should go through the same vetting process as any other

potential cabinet member.

[stray cat]

3. Bills financial dealings fall under vetting or do they?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Does nobody here understand what vetting means?

It has NOTHING to do with how many votes you receive, and most of the vetting will involve Bill and his financial dealings between 2001-2008 to see if there will be any conflicts of interest.

It's a standard procedure that ALL appointees have to go through and is not a personal attack on Hillary OR Bill.

:banghead:

[Metric System]

7. Most of us understand that and most of us agree with that. I assume the OP is reacting to threads

that insinuate that the Clintons are hiding something and other insinuations.

[trumad]

9. Uh duh----

[TexasObserver]

6. The type of vetting being done is much different. It involves private disclosures.

This vetting process is very different from the "vetting" that is done by observing a person in public office for years. This vetting is financial disclosures of relationships and conflicts of interests, or potential conflicts of interest.

[KittyWampus]

8. you are woefully under-informed.

[trumad]

10. And you are woefully lacking a sense of humor.

Moran

[4themind]

11. self-del

As I think I may have written a serious response to what may not have been a serious thread. Thanks

[onehandle]

12. I iz serious. She iz smoking vetted! nt

[Lucky 13]

13. Things that remain unvetted: WJC's deals with Columbia, Dubai, Kazakhstan, etc.

AND examining areas of possible conflict of interest with the Foundation. The Foundation issues wouldn't be a deal breaker. I'm sure rules would just be set in place making sure even the APPEARANCE of a conflict is averted. i.e. requiring Hillary not be involved in Foundation decision-making for her term as SoS or possibly restrictions of types of funding or to whom. The foundation should not really be any problem.

The REAL issue is Bill's wheelings and dealings with foreign countries that have netted the Clintons (BOTH OF THEM) MILLIONS. What happens when Bill's deals conflict with the Obama's foreign policy? A potential conflict of interest, or at least the APPEARANCE of a conflict of interest is not just possible, it's likely. One already exists... Bill's (and Mark Penn's) involvement with Columbia was in contradiction with US foreign policy on the subject.

It all makes me a little squeamish. The Secretary of State should be someone who has nothing to PERSONALLY gain from any negotiations with any nation. If even the appearance of a conflict of interest exists, other countries at the bargaining table could balk, leaving the US in a weaker negotiating position globally.

To be clear, none of these things DISQUALIFY Hillary. But I think some rules would have to be put in place. The first being: No international financial deals for Bill while she is SoS. Start there and I think some people might come around to the Hillary for SOS thing.

[Thrill]

14. Its never been about her. Its about Bill Clinton

and the shit he's involved in.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

15. Sure. If time stopped in the year 2000.

The thing is, it didn't. And it's not what Hillary has been doing that's the issue, it's Bill. Bill's been a busy, busy boy, making lots of money consorting with some shady characters and getting up to shenanigans all over the world. The Repukes were salivating to run against Hillary because of Bill. I know this for a fact.

[Alexander]

18. You win this thread.

:thumbsup:

[TahitiNut]

16. Last Tuesday was Vetting Day.

Might as well have been. :shrug: :eyes:

[Alexander]

17. Yeah, because we can all name the list of donors to the Clinton Library, right?

We can all vouch for Bill's good friends in Kazakhstan, right?

We think that "vetting" really means "just trust me on this", right?

:eyes:

Ridiculous.

[HeraldSquare212]

19. I don't believe that is true, when Bill is factored into things.

[HeraldSquare212]

20. I just love the hyperbole, also - "In the history of the world"!

I don't know, Helen was the topic of a lot of coversation and review among the Greeks. And then the Romans took a big interest in Cleopatra when Mark Antony married her. And so on.