slate.com - 1/13/2009
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Bill Clinton. Click image to expand. Bill Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in Hong Kong Here is a thought experiment that does not take very much thought. Picture, if you will, Hillary Clinton facing a foreign-policy conundrum. With whom will she discuss it first and most ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/7/2009
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A coda to the Rick Warren flap (II)
Citizen Crain —
... But the Clinton version of Warren-gate doesn't end with Billy Graham. It turns out that Bill Clinton has his own Nigerian ties -- and these are to Sani Abacha, the now-deceased, ...
The Clinton/Rodham Crime Family
Cold Fury —
HAD EVEN LIBERALS UPSET with their fabulous parting grifts, selling pardons at the end of the Clinton term. But all is forgiven now. After all, what’s the difference between Blago’s Pay to Play senate seat-sale and the Clintons’ Pay-to-Play pardon sale? A: Nothing, not one thing–except the Clintons have been rewarded for their crimes and Blago won’t be. Hitch looks at the Clintons’ more recent grifting and says Don’t Confirm Her : As Bill so touchingly put it [in '92], if you voted for him, you got “two for one.” What the country—and the world—has since learned is a slight ...
Dual Loyalties?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Hitch asks: Here is a thought experiment that does not take very much thought. Picture, if you will, Hillary Clinton facing a foreign-policy conundrum. With whom will she discuss it first and most intently: with her president or her husband? (I did tell you that this wouldn't be difficult.) Here's another one: Will she be swayed in her foreign-policy decisions by electoral considerations focusing on the year 2012, and, if so, will she be swayed by President Barack Obama's interests or her own? I think Clinton should be given a chance to ...
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