Presidents Here! Get Yer Ex-Presidents!
What will it take to get you to buy this ex-president? He’s listed at twenty-five million—but if I talk to my manager, I might be able to let you have him for ten.
After years of pressing the Clintons to disclose their foundation funders, the time has come. As part of Hillary’s Secretary of State deal with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton has finally coughed up his donor list.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit created by the former president to finance his library in Little Rock, Ark., and charitable efforts to reduce poverty and treat AIDS. Other foreign government givers include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica.
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AUSAID, the Australian government’s overseas aid program, and COPRESIDA-Secretariado Tecnico, a Dominican Republic government agency formed to fight AIDS, each gave $10 million to $25 million.
Ought they not be net recipients of AIDS money, not shaken down for donations?
Sheesh, Bill, it’s not like the DR is made of money, like Kuwait, Brunei, and the rest of the OPEC crowd. Why didn’t you extort Haiti while you were at it?
There’ll be much more to glean from this list, but this was my first stumbling block.
Martino said,
December 18, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
I wonder how Australian tax-payers feel about paying for an American ex-president’s library.
Now, if this was Dubya, the oil-price-conspiracy kooks would be going ape. The Saudis give $25 million to Dubya, and he’ll see to it that oil goes to $140 per bbl.
See how simple that is?
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
December 18, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
Martino, that’s true. Can you imagine them screaming “No War For Oil!”?
- Aggie