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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 10:42 AM
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Bill's speaking fees will be way way worse than any campaign finance scandal
The amount of money he "earned" from foreigners, and from corporations that went straight into Hillary's pockets via Bill is beyond the dreams of most Americans.

It will make these $100,000 bundlers look small potatoes indeed.
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leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 10:46 AM
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1. Hello joint tax returns, shared money
which is how people usually file when married.
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Larkspur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 10:52 AM
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2. I'm also interested in who is donating to Bill's Prez Library fund
How many scumbags and foreigners donated to Bill's Prez Library fund and want pardons or other special favors?
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:02 AM
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4. So it's illegal to donate to a presidential library?
I see. You think giving money to a book building is a bribe to President Hillary on spec. And you want to say that it's guilt by association. They want things. They put money in. It DOES NOT MATTER IF THERE IS ANY QUID PRO QUO! We can simply assume there will be some sometime.

Well, that exactly what I've been saying about Obama's house. We can intelligently assume that Rezko wanted something and he expected to get it and Obama expected to give it or he wouldn't have brought him in on the deal.

WE AGREE. Of course, that would get Obama indicted without proof, but you want to indict Hillary and William Clinton without proof. Shouldn't the same rules apply?

GO FOR IT!
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:04 AM
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6. Did you really write that?
How many scumbags and foreigners donated to Bill's Prez Library fund and want pardons or other special favors?

Good grief. RW nastiness and xenophobia all rolled up in one.

Ick.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:10 AM
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7. Because its illegal for foreigners to donate to US campaigns.
Only green card holders can donate.

Did you not know it is illegal?
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Larkspur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:37 AM
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8. Bill Clinton was chummy with brutal dictator Prez Uribe of Columbia
and was using his influence to push for a free trade deal for his buddy Uribe, whose regime slaughers union activists in Columbia.

Bill is a philanderer in both sex and politics. He and Hillary are completely amoral.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 10:57 AM
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3. It's illegal to take speaking fees? When was that law passed?
Or is it only illegal for a Democrat to get paid as high or higher than a Republican?

Think very carefully about what you want here. And what you might get instead.

Obama's quite a young man. Are you going to forbid HIM from earning lecture fees? Oh, hell. DO IT. Michele can support them both as a corporate attorney.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:03 AM
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5. Actually I do think it should be outlawed.
But my problem is that if these donors were speculating that Hillary was going to be running for President its kind of like giving her money before hand. She would already be bought and paid for.
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