Bill Clinton propped up a dictator, got $3.1b for his buddy and $131 million for his charity

[BeyondGeography]

Poll question: Bill Clinton propped up a dictator, got $3.1b for his buddy and $131 million for his charity

Per today's cover story in the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[Dogmudgeon]

1. A slanted, spun Obama poll to unite us in hope!

Tell us about this dictator and the buddy. More stuff you just made up?

--p!

[Kittycat]

2. Did you read the link?

[Bodhi BloodWave]

4. That takes work ya know :P n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

7. More than a one-liner, anyway

Not only have I read the article, I followed the uranium deal in the international (i.e., non-USA (i.e., at least semi-intelligent)) news.

One public smooch on the ass of a dictator for $131M? Sign me up!

--p!

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Sure did

It was another piece of anti-Bill innuendo. SOP for the NYT

How 'bout you?

--p!

[Kittycat]

6. Sure did. Do you have *proof* that it's incorrect?

[Dogmudgeon]

9. All it takes is the ability to read

You're the Clinton-hater; you present your "proof" first.

You can't even be bothered to write a brief discussion of the article -- but you want me to hand you a bunch of links?

The Times also let the piece run with a series of unsourced derogatory statements presented as fact, a practice the Times is notorious for.

I suppose you want me to list the unsupported statements one-by-one for you. Here's three in one half a sentence:

" ...Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges."

The rest, I leave for your enjoyment. But digging for information is more difficult that just accepting what you're told.

If you want to fling mud, don't complain when you get your hands dirty.

--p!

[TreasonousBastard]

12. "Unsourced derogatory comments" from the public record and...

at least one former Clinton apparatchik?

Pu-leeze-- there is little question that Mr. Bill is cashing in on his former job. Don't sully the discussion by questioning the facts, question how close to the line he's going.

The article was spun negatively, but, since the deal was done, just how would one spin it positively?

[mtnsnake]

3. If there was anything wrong or immoral about it, Borat would've been all over it

[Yossariant]

8. Incomprehensible innuendo from sleazy, discredited "Her Way" author

Tell us about Whitewater again, Don.

Ready, Fire, Aim.

:rofl:

[KittyWampus]

10. Strange, the Amazon editor and reader reviews call that book neutral. Kill the messenger

but it still reeks.

[jasmine621]

11. Bill Clinton? Oh, I love Bill. Making money for his family.

He was almost broke when he left the WH thanks to legal fees. He does lots of fund raising for poor folks around the world. Get in there Bill and do something for yourself...just like everyone else does, including Obama.

[Occam Bandage]

13. Clinton folks, this is the problem with making artificial standards for Obama:

It will, and I mean will bite you in the ass. This is a thousand times worse than Rezko.

[chieftain]

14. This is the new Whitewater. There may be no there, there, but

it will be the hammer used by the RW and their accomplices in the corporate media to bludgeon Hillary and either keep her from the WH or defeat any liberal initiative she might propose. The combination of Bill's casual attitude to ethical concerns and the unremitting hostility of the GOP and media are likely to result in a rerun of Bill's second term, if Hillary is elected. The co-presidency concept is dangerous to the Democratic Party.

[elixir]

15. I guess we'll have to see if the story has legs.