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MrMickeysMom

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17. This seems to have gone over some people's head here...

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #11)

Thu Jun 11, 2015, 06:45 AM

Jun 2015

If you're a corporation, this isn't a big deal…

Corporations are people, but they sure can lobby better than ordinary people. Perhaps the SCOTUS should have stratfied the level of "personhood" so we can all look more fondly as to how persons may lobby who's in charge of the State Department. No matter…. It's the Clinton Foundation.

Uh, yes, this was real paranoia, wasn't it?

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181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary's State Department [View all] MrMickeysMom Jun 2015 OP

Looks like Hillary has all her bases covered Joe Turner Jun 2015 #1

I donate to the Foundation DURHAM D Jun 2015 #2

We've been living in a plutocracy for 35 years. Rex Jun 2015 #3

I dunno, Rex� MrMickeysMom Jun 2015 #4

Perfectly normal Man from Pickens Jun 2015 #5

Oohhh�. MrMickeysMom Jun 2015 #18

So what... Chicago1980 Jun 2015 #6

There are things more important than money. Octafish Jun 2015 #7

if you're going to start a foundation to help poor girls and women certainot Jun 2015 #8

+1 Buzz Clik Jun 2015 #20

The Clinton Foundation funds go to charity, not to the Clintons' pockets. pnwmom Jun 2015 #9

Because Foundations decide public policy, and because Foundations make those who JDPriestly Jun 2015 #12

The foundation's goals look laudable to me. So what's wrong with taking money pnwmom Jun 2015 #14

then we come to the part Man from Pickens Jun 2015 #15

And, they look laudable, so... MrMickeysMom Jun 2015 #19

+1 Buzz Clik Jun 2015 #21

Because there a TROLLS posing as democrats on DU bigdarryl Jun 2015 #22

. stonecutter357 Jun 2015 #10

It's bad enough that they were making donations while lobbying the State Department, but JDPriestly Jun 2015 #11

Agree. mylye2222 Jun 2015 #13

This seems to have gone over some people's head here... MrMickeysMom Jun 2015 #17

Hillary promised there would be no hint of conflict-of-interest, so there isn't any. Scuba Jun 2015 #16