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Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:02 PM May 2018

The Clinton's via their foundation, the Clinton's via their service to the nation

both in the WH and Senate, have accomplished more than ANY body I can think of at the moment.

Their foundation alone does more for people in need in ONE day than any 100 armchair knowitalls will do combined in their lifetimes.

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The Clinton's via their foundation, the Clinton's via their service to the nation (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater May 2018 OP
Yep triron May 2018 #1
I agree with you Eliot re the accomplishments of the Clinton Foundation... the Clintons should be InAbLuEsTaTe May 2018 #2
They have saved lives. NCTraveler May 2018 #3
Thank you for this, i am aware of most of this. But others likely are not. Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #4
I have issues with certain things bot Clinton's have done. NCTraveler May 2018 #7
Who got up everyday for 50 years to do good things for others. Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #8
The Question No One's Asking About the Clinton Foundation NCTraveler May 2018 #5
THey profit NOT a penny from it, it does great work and yet I promise you Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #6
Amen! mcar May 2018 #9

triron

(21,915 posts)
1. Yep
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:08 PM
May 2018

And the repukes try to throw as much mud as they can in those directions.
Even some others in the media.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,110 posts)
2. I agree with you Eliot re the accomplishments of the Clinton Foundation... the Clintons should be
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:15 PM
May 2018

lauded for that, absolutely.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
3. They have saved lives.
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:32 PM
May 2018
I thought it was likely the Clinton Foundation had gotten behind a lot of PlayPump-like projects — feel-good, sound-great ideas that attracted Clinton’s wealthy and well-known friends but didn’t really have much of a measurable impact the world.

But I was wrong. After reviewing foundation documents and talking to numerous people in the philanthropy and global health sectors familiar with its work, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Clinton Foundation is a real charitable enterprise that did enormous good. Its projects are of varying effectiveness, but its work is supported by credible, discriminating funders, and the foundation has least one huge accomplishment under its belt — an HIV/AIDS program that saved an untold number of lives.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/22/12893444/clinton-foundation-effectiveness

Read about their efforts with Gates when it comes to malaria. Impressive to say the least.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
4. Thank you for this, i am aware of most of this. But others likely are not.
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:34 PM
May 2018

If only the millions of armchair experts who tell us how bad our candidates are only knew what the fuck they were talking about.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
7. I have issues with certain things bot Clinton's have done.
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:38 PM
May 2018

I have zero doubt they are good people who have accomplished great things, almost always for others. Even with my issues I don’t see them as a mixed bag. I see them as great yet flawed people who have put their amazing life on display for the betterment of society.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
8. Who got up everyday for 50 years to do good things for others.
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:40 PM
May 2018

Sure they got their fame and some fortune from it, but when I think of the DO NOTHINGS who sit around and whine and that they whine about THESE people?

Why that just makes me mad as hell.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
5. The Question No One's Asking About the Clinton Foundation
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:35 PM
May 2018
Another Hillary Clinton shitstorm was kicked up when the Associated Press reported on Tuesday that during the Democratic presidential nominee’s tenure as secretary of state, she met several dozen times with donors to the Clinton Foundation. Hot damn, the Trumpsters declared, here’s evidence of the corrupt, pay-to-play ways of the Clinton mob. Donald Trump called for the foundation to be shut down. Rudy Giuliani could defend his accusation that the Clinton Foundation was “racketeering,” a harsh legal term with which the former prosecutor must be familiar. And media commentators, including the Washington Post‘s Chris Cillizza, proclaimed this revelation a blow to Clinton, fixating on the supposedly awful optics.

Most of the reaction was overreaction. The article contained no real allegations—let alone evidence—of any corruption or breach of ethics. Most of the meetings cited were the sort of one-on-ones a secretary of state could be expected to hold, whether or not the person in the room with Clinton was a donor to the foundation. The story dwelled on a meeting she had with Nobel Prize winner and foundation donor Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer in microlending Clinton has known for 30 years. In one instance, the article cited a meeting Clinton held with the head of an AIDS foundation, which was developing projects in Africa with the State Department. And OMG—this foundation also gave to the Clinton Foundation, which has long been involved in the global fight against AIDS.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/clinton-foundation-controversy-actual-work/

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
6. THey profit NOT a penny from it, it does great work and yet I promise you
Fri May 11, 2018, 07:37 PM
May 2018

75% of the republican party are sure that none of that is true.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother with any of this anymore.

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