salon.com - 11/17/2008
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March 7, 2008 | Whether the Democrats know enough about Barack Obama to nominate him for president -- and whether the nation will endorse that nomination in November -- remains to be seen. So far, as the trial of his former patron Antoin Rezko unfolds, nobody has even suggested that Obama did ...
guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2008
weeklystandard.com - 11/17/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
There appears to be little angst among conservatives
at the prospect of Hillary Clinton joining the Obama
administration as Secretary of State. The idea was warmly embraced by Henry Kissinger , who our President-elect seems to hold in high-esteem, ...
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Hail Clinton
mediamatters.org - 11/17/2008
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mediamatters.org —
How to fire Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Of course, Clinton has not been tapped for the
position, but a number of pundits, in what may be a Beltway first, have wondered out loud about how Clinton would be/could be fired as Secretary of State. ...
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How to fire Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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Sorry, Folks, No 'Exasperation' Here
Taylor Marsh —
... The concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative and Bill Clinton’s
other activities seem slightly overblown (as I’ve
noted before). Every paid speech he has delivered over the past eight
years is recorded in his wife’s Senate disclosure forms. Nor have donors
to CGI been concealed, either, as any journalist who attends its meetings
or examines its Web site should be able to determine. The countries that have
donated funding to the Clinton H.I.V./AIDS Initiative are also a matter of
public record. ...
Transparency And The Clintons
TalkLeft —
... The concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative and Bill Clinton’s other activities seem slightly overblown (as I’ve noted before). Every paid speech he has delivered over the past eight years is recorded in his wife’s Senate disclosure forms. Nor have donors to CGI been concealed, either, as any journalist who attends its meetings or examines its Web site should be able to determine. The countries that have donated funding to the Clinton H.I.V./AIDS Initiative are also a matter of public record. ...
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