Why are they so intent on destroying the Clinton Foundation....

[Historic NY]

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Yeah it takes foreign money, its work, is done globally, thats how it works. It brings people with money to those in desperate need of it.

In a resurgent Rwanda, only 21 years past the genocide, the government of President Paul Kagame has deputized a high-profile partner for an array of endeavors across this striving, haunted land: in a banana grove in Kayonza, where subsistence farmers are learning to double their yields; in a teaching hospital in Kigali, where American and Rwandan faculty are training a generation of specialists and nurses; in a sprawling plant in Mukarange, where soybeans are being processed into the country’s first domestic cooking oil.

In each instance, the partner has been the Clinton Foundation.

As a microcosm of the foundation’s worldwide presence, Rwanda reveals it to be more a nonprofit global consulting firm than a traditional philanthropy, with scattered interests that reflect the darting mind of its namesake, former President Bill Clinton. Here in the hills of central Africa, perhaps as much as anywhere, it enjoys the synergy with the government that the foundation seeks wherever it goes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/us/politics/rwanda-bill-hillary-clinton-foundation.html?_r=0

[fun n serious]

1. Bush's family had a foundation

Chenney was never attacked over Haliburton... It's sickening.

[NWCorona]

6. I thought we made a huge stink as Democrats out of Haliburton?

I know I did. I will admit thou that I wasn't up on bush's foundation.

[JHB]

20. We tried to, but it was never made into a drumbeat...

...thumping every day to penetrate peoples' heads.

Cheney &Halliburton would occasionally come up in the news cycle, but then it would get dragged under in the daily churn. It would occasionally pop up again, only to once again drop out of sight of people who weren't really paying attention to it.

Republicans, on the other hand, will constantly harp on things so that they stay visible and become part of the normal background noise of peoples' lives. And people who don't follow it closely start thinking Eve's something to it because they keep hearing about it.

[NWCorona]

21. I agree with that. I just wish we were more forceful with the Republicans.

[louis-t]

2. Republicans would rather be bombing them.

Help someone? Ha! Bomb them and take their oil. Welcome to Trump world.

[NewJeffCT]

3. They don't give a rat's ass about the Clinton Foundation

They just want to tarnish the name Clinton somehow and get their low information base of voters riled up to turn out in 2016 and then 2018.

If it was the Reagan Foundation that was doing the same work, Republicans would be carving Reagan's likeness into a new Mt Rushmore just because of this.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Do you smell ACORN?

Same or similiar wording in the attacks being leveled. This is how the Rethugs took down ACORN and a hand full of week kneed Dems helped. Damn,when you get a Foundation or a charity that does 88% out the door and 12% for Administration,damn well won't see those numbers at the Red Cross or any other Social Service Agency.

[oasis]

14. +1

[BobbyDrake]

5. They score a point if they demand something and then it happens.

That's why there's such a pile-on by so many familiar names and faces.

[Hortensis]

7. Because noble works belie their dirty Clintons meme.

Btw, for the first time a majority of married white women are choosing the Democratic over the GOP candidate.

This is, of course, a group that would appreciate the mission and the accomplishments of the Clinton Foundation.

[MFM008]

8. just like ACORN

they want to force it out of existence.

[beachbum bob]

9. Has the name clinton...that's all right-wing zealots care

Does not matter what the foundation actually does....

[CentralMass]

10. To avoid conflict of interests or the appearance of them.

When you have foreign governments making big donations and we are doing things like selling them 10's billions in weapons sales it raises suspicion of influence buying.

[CentralMass]

18. No I think it is a real concern and it appears that the Clinton recognize it as one.

It was made an issue during Hillarys tenure as SOS and is would be a bigger issue when she becomes the President.

[procon]

11. Its basically down to the Republicans trying to kill off anything

that either makes Democrats look good or is managed by Democrats. Republicans do not have any similar charities. They have no organized international effort to uplift disadvantages people. They do not care about poor people, brown people, foreign people, so they work very hard to squash those outreach efforts before comparisons are made and questions pop up.

[Hekate]

13. Swiftboating

[pnwmom]

15. They'll go to any lengths to destroy Hillary. n/t

[MohRokTah]

16. "Clinton"<--------- That's why.

Republicans have Clinton Derangement Syndrome.

[JI7]

17. why do they want to destroy vets who served the country, demand birth certificates of black people

etc ?

[TeamPooka]

19. because it is effective and does good work like ACORN and Planned Parenthood. nt

[Tanuki]

22. Because the lives of hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients in Africa who receive lifesaving

anti-retroviral medications through the foundation's efforts are worthless to them. And that is just one example.

[wiggs]

23. Money is free speech now, but only if

republicans get the money.

Little known SCOTUS ruling.

[Blue Idaho]

24. Useful idiots like Andrea Mitchell

Are bound and determined to carry water for the Alt.Right party. You can just forget about all the good being done by the Foundation. If Andrea can use it to defame the Clintons she is more than happy to do it.