Bill Clinton's China connection

How very interesting the Trib floats something done by L.A. journalists about the spouse of HRC right now.
NPR just aired a 'look at Obama's religion friendly background' piece seemingly in order to defend the candidate from his own lll-advised remarks.
It's one thing to watch his pillow being fluffed during a debate.
But to watch the news media remake his own bed--after he's torn it apart by revealing his own bare racism and disdain for 'the other' in Pennsylvania is beyond the pale.
But here, the Trib breaks into the Clinton's house and flips over the furniture.
Question for Trib writers--if China is such a problem--how much 'made in China' crap do you have in your own homes?
Maybe that's where your investigation ought to begin--because if yuppies like you would stop buying Chinese crap--we all could stand up to them a lot taller.

Why citizen......you sound so BITTER!

One other thing--the piece about Obama's lack of true transparency regarding lobbyist is well done.
But it is months too late to have effectively informed voters in his home state as to the true nature of Obama's funding.
To pair it with a story about Bill Clinton at this point in the race seems to telegraph that you hate HRC's campaign and want BHO to stay in the race.
Are you trying to ruin Democratic party chances for the Fall?
Or are you just trying to milk as much campaign funds from BHO until it's over?

See, here is the real threat to America - Clinton and the Chinese. And you all still want to b**** about the truth of rural America being bitter? This makes me bitter, and I am not from rural America.

Well we now know how Hillary will pay off those campaign debts.

"if China is such a problem--how much 'made in China' crap do you have in your own homes?
Maybe that's where your investigation ought to begin--because if yuppies like you would stop buying Chinese crap--we all could stand up to them a lot taller."

Hey, Citizen: For some people in America (the poor and not the middle class) the only products they have financial access to is Chinese made products. American made is increasingly out of reach for most Americans. (See dollar stores) If you want Americans to buy Americans we all sould have given Ron Paul a shot or some other who wants to take care of us first and not Corporations tied to slave-labor nations.

Instead of trying to influence the election in such an obvious manner (pairing a months overdue examination of hypocritical 'no lobbyist money here' claims of Obama) with a good piece about Bill Clinton's acceptance of some Chinese funding), just let Obama explain his own way out of the mess he's made of his campaign.
That would free you up to cover the elephant in our economic living room---the unholy war Obama would have had to have voted for had he been anyone at the national level.
And that would lead you to the KBR rape stories:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/03/8078/
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/12/more-kbr-sex-as.html

http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/em/emp/20070525/20070525_jones.html

"Alibaba Inc."?? The name "Alibaba" is commonly used in Arabic culture to denote "thief.'

Think "Alibaba and the 40 Thieves." All things considered, it seems very appropriate!

HILLARY NEEDS BILL TO HELP US BUY MORE JUNK FROM CHINA AND SEND OUR CAPITOL THERE - SO THE CHINESE CRAP CAN BE SOLD AT WALMART - WHILE CHINA OPPRESSES IT'S OWN PEOPLE, BUDDHISTS IN TIBET, TORTURES CHRISTIANS, POLLUTES THE AIR AND BLOCKS OUR TRADE TO THEIR COUNTRY - OH I LEFT OUT, WE ALSO NEED CHINA SO WE'LL HAVE A PLACE FOR THE CLINTONS TO SELL OUR MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

that sounds fair

"Citizen",
It's not about Obama or the Trib staff, or whether one buys Chinese made goods. It's about HYPOCRISY. The hyopcrisy of Bill Clinton getting donations from an agent of the very same Chinese government that Hillary is protesting. The same hyopcrisy of protesting a free trade agreement with Columbia while one of your top agents is lobbying in favor of it. The Clintons are grifters.

Just walk into any Dollar General, or General Dollar, or family dollar, or whatever and you'll see China personified. Cheap goods, cheap labor, cheap, cheap, cheap. Everything is cheap except the money that is pouring into the coffers of people like Clinton. But that's capitalism for you. The Chinese have caught on big time and taking advantage of the economic theory of investing what is good for your self. The Clintons knew that and their investment is starting to pay off. So what's the big deal?

What was objectionable about BHO's comments is not the 'bitter' word, but the painting of poor people he perceives as a different race his own (I thought we were all humans) as 'the other'.
George Wallace, Sister Souljah, David Duke, Rev. Wright--not good company to be associated with in a national election campaign.
That's the problem.

The Clintons are a Pandora's Box of contradictions, conflict, obfuscation and lies. And no one -- NO ONE -- other than the Clintons knows what is in that box. If she's elected, it will be too late. And then we have Obama with his baggage of veiled racist criticisms of small town whites in Pennsylvania and his grandmother reference of being a "typical white person" when it comes to viewing black men. Is it too late to start the primaries over?

Wise up folks, if anyone thinks it's going to be a new dawn after the election, have another hit on the crack pipe. It is all about money and everything is for sale.
If you think Obama will put a chicken in your pot just keep repeating the mantra...hope and change...hope and change.........
Boy are you going to be sorry.

Guys. Don't get so excited about this. There's nothing you can do to stop politicians from "selling out". All of them do it to a greater or lesser extent. It's been that way all of recorded history. I'm just happy we can still get cheap stuff at WalMart.

Why doesn't the Tribune look more closely to Obamas source's of money making? Why doesn't the Tribune look into the use of the book 'Black Theology and Black Power' by James H. Cone, by Obamas church and teachings in Rev. Wrights preachings? All these things are happening in Chicago, isn't that where the Tribune is based?

next y'all will be complaining about cheap cars made in japan. didn't they bomb hawaii once? any of you still driving toyotas? i'm not, i love my german made bmw. o wait, maybe i should return that too since the nazis ran the place once.

You can't control patronage, one way or the other they have done something wrong whether affiliated with China, Iran or North Korea. The true measure is on the future plans and policies of the candidate. Obama lacks experience, he's just a junior Senator wanting to be President immediately.

With his latest guffaws, the fish is always caught through the mouth. There is still time, Obama cannot beat McCain in the fall cuz' he divided the democrats and he is perceived to divide the country if he becomes the President.

What do the American folks expect from this unreliable couple - honesty?

jc

McCain sits in his easy chair on his biographical tour sipping a relaxing cup of tea while spinning boring tales of his youth ("Hey, did I mention that I was a POW?") . Meanwhile, his campaign staff of lobbyists are rolling in the millions and this guy is totally off the radar. He can even get facts on Iraq completely wrong and no one cares. They're so concerned about Obama's pastor's sermons from years ago, but not that he called his wife a c***in public. And those small town folks in PA still don't have any hope of jobs in the near or far future.

Why is the story of a contributor to Bill Clinton's foundation headlining?

It's because, as usual, the pro-Obama camp cannot deal directly with issues and can only change the subject. Obama has not yet answered how exactly he came to the conclusion that rural PA residents are 'bitter' and consequently 'cling to guns and religion', or the wider implications of his statement: - if gun owning and religion are the refuges of the economically 'bitter' segments of America, are most gun owners and church/mosque/synagogue-goers bitter?

Or, this Clinton contributor story might be in response to Obama's latest public lie that he accepts no donations from the oil industry.

Even what many Obama supporters think of as his shining moment, his speech on race, was delivered in order to distract the public from the issue of Obama's twenty-year long association with a racist bigot, Jeremiah Wright. And, in his speech on race, Obama equated the decades long putrid rantings from the pulpit by Wright with a one-time remark from Obama's white grandmother, who had been frightened by an aggressive Black panhandler.

But, to return to the latest distraction by the Obama war machine, the contributor to Bill Clinton's foundation, what possible educational or positive contribution can this article make to the present campaign? If this one contributor to the a non-profit foundation started by the husband of a candidate is newsworthy, surely it should be contrasted with the lists of all entities who are direct contributors to both candidates, especially in light of Obama's statements that the majority of contributions to his campaign are from individuals and that he would not accept money from the oil industry.

Watching the media function with the attention span of gnats and see them take up every Obama planted distracting and redirecting story, adorning them with yellow press headlines, is disgusting.

It’s way past time that the press actually vets Obama, and stops accepting “I don’t remember” as a reason to cease investigating. Everyone and every organization who dares to challenge Obama will be called racist by the Obama camp or its surrogates, which is the card they have played most often and most effectively in this campaign, but professional journalists owe it to their profession to not let themselves be conscripted as they were by George W. Bush’s campaign. Obama may be more than “just words”, but he certainly hasn’t proven this, and he certainly does not deserve to have his mendacious way to the White House greased for him by the MSM.

In the United States people often complain about the United States money being spent to aid foriegn countries.

Bill Clintons Charity, takes donations from all over the world and offers charitable assistance all over the world.
That seems to make sense to me, and I don't see the problem. Why shouldn't a charity that offers aid to other countries take donations from other countries?
This is just an effort to deflect attention away from Obama's remarks about small town America.

jp, OBAMA is getting his funds from the Millions upon Millions of young Americans that believe. He only asks for fifteen dollars. And the people who support him - are 90% new, untouchable voters who want CHANGE. We don't want another Bush or Clinton. We want OBAMA, someone from our generation and not ARCHIE BUNKER'S. We are tired of racism - ALL of it.

Why isn't Hillary touting her vast accomplishments from when she sat on Wal-Mart's Board of Directors and started selling us out to the Chinese (1986-1992) while Bill was leader of Wal-Martland (aka Arkansas)? You should be taking credit, Hillary, for trashing rural communities to the point that an $8 an hour job with no medical benefits is the best thing going.

So Bill and Hillary, what's your vision for trashing what's left of the American dream? Why don't you talk about your Wal-Mart credentials and vast army of Chinese backers, Hillary?

Will we be mandated to go to Wal-Mart to see a doctor as part of your National Health Care plan? Will we be force-fed cheap pills made in China - perhaps with a melamine chaser served in a lead-tainted sippy cup?

Maybe we can package up Hillary and Bill in bows and Bush can return them to China as an Olympic Opening Ceremony gift on behalf of the happy working masses in rural America. I'd donate for the cheaply made Chinese bow.

Hillary and Bill in 2008?
More and more...as media and the pundits peal away the onion layers, we are seeing what truly lies ahead for us, the average Joe and Jane American. For the life of me, I don't know why I continue to view this campaign with goulish interest. As a long time Republican, I find it amusing that Clinton and Obama continue to snipe at each other to the point of exaustion. It almost reminds me of my high school days of 1970 when three candidate were vying for President of the Student. Naturally the most popular won----regardless of qualifications. What's really scary, is the possibility of Bill and Hillary.............uh...I mean Hillary and Bill returning to White House, is that Bill has been VERY BUSY since his White House years, doing speaches for special interests, foreign governments, and so forth. I mean really, if Bill and Hillary....uh...Hillary is elected.....one is going to see more "behind the scene" affairs (no pun intended) with foreign countries, that's going to make Mark Penn's dealings pale by comparison. Hillary wants to have Bill as a foreign ambassador? I can only imagine the type of financial rewards waiting for them at the end her 4 years!

Oh please. Ya know what would really be surprising... if the Tribune ran an article about Bush and Cheney's connection with war profiteers.

This is just another example of the Clinton FLIM-FLAM routine that we fell for for 8 years! You want slick Willy back in the hen house? And yes he'll be there if Hilarious wins. PEOPLE, Wise up! Neither one of them gives two s---s about any of us lemmings. They're in it for the money and nothing else. God help us if she wins. People that support her are pathetic. Quite frankly I'm not impressed with Obama either, but right now he's the best chance this country has.

Clintons foundation has made $500 Million in contributions, I wonder how much the idiots that wrote this article donated to the Red Cross or the Salvation Army. Maybe he should have kept quiet while a few million people starved or came down with aids and then you would have condemned him for not contributing.

"A former president of the United States received a donation from a Chinese firm that is involved in censorship, and now his wife is running for president. This is a shame of the U.S.," said Harry Wu, an exiled Chinese activist based in Washington.

If elected, Hillary wants to make her hubby a "roving international ambassador" and yet he is in bed with a Chinese internet company that supports government censorship? Can you say CONLFICT OF INTEREST?? But boo hoo hoo, you cry, the media just are picking on poor little Hillary.

Two for the price of One, except when it is politically inconvenient.

Shame on you Bill Clinton, Shame on you!

It's getting tough out there.

Obama's bitter comment surfaces on Friday, Clinton's Ali-Bubba connection surfaces on Sunday.

Hope everybody's wearing a stainless steel cup...

Bubba gets caught with his hand in another cookie jar.

What a crumb..........!

To Hillary's campaign- it was nice to have your paid shills comment here under disguise. This article was not about Obama and his faults. It was about Bill's connection to the Chinese. You cannot deflect the attention. I have not made a decision on voting, yet- not with the election 7 months away. I'm sure we'll find out more about all the candidates. You Hillary people, like "citizen, cannot deflect this one.

Knew I'd wake up the Obama HQ kids. Did you get a good little morning nap after a big night of video games?
Look--Michelle Obama sat her cushy U of C powdered butt on the TreeFoods/Walmart board AFTER Walmart went psycho.
The company wasn't nearly as predatory when Sam Walton was still alive.
Ask Obama supporter and surrender monkey John Kerry about how surprised everybody was (see they're not socialists---these Democrats--too bad) that corporate America took such horrible advantage of NAFTA.
The Clintons aren't our enemies--CORPORATE AMERICA IS THE ENEMY.
And the Obamas have their heads so far up corporate america's butt that the Obamas need to visit a chiropractor quarterly when corporate media shifts its hind end into gear to report to the stockholders.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SPOILERS THE OBAMAS ARE.

Thanx, Bill, now get Hill & Chelsea to land at Gary/Chicago Airport next time by, instead of looking for a muddy $100 million Peotone runway.
W.

And just look at that picture of Clinton at the top of this page..... bragging again!

The Clinton- Chinese connection is just more evidence (though probably just the tip of the ice berg), on who the Clinton's would be beholden to, in any future Administration. Of course they wanted to block information on their loaded Taxes. They are a power hungry team that has a lot of audacity to call Barack Obama elitist, a joke!

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