Hillary's so-called lack of 'accomplishments' is a valid issue?

[eagle1462010]

http://www.spotlight-online.de/file...ght_plus_0812_16_17_reading_comprehension.pdf

“THE ART OF SAYING NOTHING”

As the next American election approaches, everyone in politics — from local politicians upwards to the two main candidates for the presidency — will be talking in sound bites and bumper-sticker slogans. Voters have a better chance of remembering short catchphrases than long speeches. But let’s be honest: political catchphrases are just examples of the advanced art of saying nothing. A candidate has to appeal to a wide spectrum of voters in order to get elected. For that reason, he or she tries to avoid saying things that could alienate potential supporters. Although armies of advisers are on hand to make sure only the right words are said, the safest strategy is simply to be as vague as possible. This was the logic behind the current president’s promise of “change” and his battle cry of “yes, we can”. As Harvard language specialist Steven Pinker has pointed out, it’s hard to be against changing something. Everybody can fill the promise of change with his or her own content. And “yes, we can” — but what exactly can we do? The disappointment felt by many young people who supported Barack Obama four years ago can be traced back partially to his ability to eloquently say nothing and his inability to change very much.

 

[jknowgood]

Scott Walker says

Ted Cruz has accomplished nothing.

Rand Paul has accomplished nothing.

Mark Rubio has accomplished nothing.

Lindsey Graham has accomplished nothing.

He's either right or he's wrong. Well?

So when Hillary starts criticizing Obama, are you gonna call her a racist?

 

[Moonglow]

Id bet dinner for two the Fiorona we'll be the republican vp candidate

This country is facing economic disaster at a time when the terrorists are infiltrating the homeland.

She seems a far more formidable candidate than described in the media, that's for sure. Someone that has top level business experience and is prone to get America (including the inner-city American ghetto's) back to work, good education and opportunity deserves interest.

Thanks for the early morning laughs...

 

[NYcarbineer]

Scott Walker says

Ted Cruz has accomplished nothing.

Rand Paul has accomplished nothing.

Mark Rubio has accomplished nothing.

Lindsey Graham has accomplished nothing.

He's either right or he's wrong. Well?

So when Hillary starts criticizing Obama, are you gonna call her a racist?

Why would I? I'm not a conservative. It's conservatives who play the race card every time a black conservative gets criticized.

 

[jknowgood]

Scott Walker says

Ted Cruz has accomplished nothing.

Rand Paul has accomplished nothing.

Mark Rubio has accomplished nothing.

Lindsey Graham has accomplished nothing.

He's either right or he's wrong. Well?

So when Hillary starts criticizing Obama, are you gonna call her a racist?

Why would I? I'm not a conservative. It's conservatives who play the race card every time a black conservative gets criticized.

Now that's funny, thanks for the laugh.

 

[Ernie S.]

It certainly is once you consider what happened 7 years ago when we elected someone with even fewer accomplishments.

So you are admitting that she does have accomplishments?

The bad far out weighs the good. It's pretty pathetic that the absolute best Democrats can do is Hillary, granted, they really don't have much of a choice at this point, she has the money, the liberal media backing and the political machine.

The voters will get to decide who they prefer. Initially it will be the Dem primary voters and Hillary has lost one primary already. Assuming she does better this time she will have to face off against the battle hardened best of the best winner of the GOP primary.

At that point she should be easy pickings for any of the current GOP options. They all come with masses of accomplishments of their own to woo the voters with their glittering resumes and credentials. Their track records alone take days to peruse and you can just see the divine light of leadership and righteousness shining forth from their noble faces.

I really don't know why she has your panties all in a bunch. She should be really easy to defeat given all the baggage she is drowning under if FauxNoise is to be believed. You should have an easy enough time convincing voters that needless wars and doubling the national debt again by giving the 1% yet more and more tax cuts are the answers to jobs that never materialize. Who isn't going to vote for a GOP candidate that repeal the hated ObamaCare?

When she is swept into the same dust heap as Fritz Mondale and George McGovern, I bet that cackle will fall silent.

Which of the GOP "dust bunnies" is going to accomplish that feat IYO?

She will do it to herself. HRC is her own worst enemy.

 

[OKTexas]

What about Scott Walker's claim that none of the GOP senators in the race have accomplished anything?

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Even while calling for a "civilized" Republican debate in 2016, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker charged on Friday that GOP senators seeking the White House haven't accomplished anything in Washington.


Walker Republican senators have yet to accomplish anything - Yahoo News

I remember asking the same sort of question, what have Hillary Clinton's opponents 'accomplished'?

I guess Scott Walker has at least partially given me an answer.

Answer to the title: Yes

As for the rest: Off topic.

So Hillary's 'accomplishments' are fair game, but those of her potential opponents are not.

That is textbook Rightwing Nuttery.

You want to talk about them, start a thread on them, according to the thread title this one was about the hildabeast. That's all I said.

 

[Obiwan]

Actually, Hillary has quite a list of accomplishments....

In addition to voting for the war in Iraq when she was a Senator, she accomplished the following as Secretary of State...

Hillary Clinton s fifteen biggest scandals WashingtonExaminer.com


Boeing bucks

Boeing gave generously to the Clinton Foundation after Hillary Clinton personally intervened on its behalf to secure a lucrative contract with the Russian government.

The secretary of state made what she called a "shameless pitch" to the state-owned Russian carrier Rosavia in October 2009.


Russia struck a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing in June 2010, after which the aerospace conglomerate cut a $900,000 check to the Clinton Foundation.

Speaker fees

Bill Clinton doubled the amount of money he earned from speaking engagements funded by foreign entities while his wife served as secretary of state.

The spike in foreign groups that became interested in hosting the former president raised questions as to whether their invitations were made in an effort to curry favor with the secretary of state.

For example, Bill Clinton earned $2.2 million from just six international speeches in 2014, but reportedly made $4.8 million from 13 speeches in foreign countries in 2010

Uranium One

Hillary Clinton's role in approving a contentious uranium contract emerged in Peter Schweizer's May book Clinton Cash.

In the deal, a state-owned Russian energy agency took over a Canadian company, Uranium One, that controlled such a large stake in America's uranium deposits that the transaction required approval from Hillary Clinton and other cabinet-level officials.

Frank Giustra, a top Clinton Foundation donor and close friend of the former president, served as a financial adviser to Uranium One as the deal unfolded.

The charity failed to disclose other significant donations from individuals and entities involved in the transaction, including the $2.35 million Uranium One chair Ian Telfer funneled to the charity through another foundation under his control.

Airbrushing IG reports

The State Department's acting inspector general, Harold Geisel, appears to have removed damaging passages from a report before publishing it in February 2013.

References to specific cases in which high-level State officials halted internal investigations and descriptions of the extent and frequency of those interventions appear in several early drafts but were later eliminated, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.

The unexplained gaps between the reports call into question Geisel's independence as an interim inspector general.

Among the passages removed was an allegation that diplomatic security staff had covered up the solicitation of prostitutes by Hillary Clinton's security team on official travel and that higher-ups had shielded an official with an alleged history of sexual assault from being investigated for attacking embassy staff.

Blumenthal's back

Hillary Clinton's reliance on an informal adviser whom she called an "old friend" sparked controversy when her published emails revealed him to be her main source of intelligence in the run-up to Benghazi.

Sidney Blumenthal's brutal campaign against then-Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary made him an enemy of the administration even after Hillary Clinton was selected to join Obama's cabinet. Her attempts to hire Blumenthal were reportedly nixed by Obama's staff.

Blumenthal's ties to a group of businessmen who were attempting to drum up contracts in the Libya — with the help of the State Department — raise questions about the motives behind the intelligence memos he sent Hillary Clinton.

Boko Haram

The State Department has ignored a lawsuit over its failure to comply with a FOIA request for records pertaining to a Nigerian businessman.

Gilbert Chagoury, who gave between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, was indicted in the Halliburton bribery scandal in 2010 alongside his brother. Chagoury is reportedly a close friend of Bill Clinton who spent time traveling with the former president through Europe.

Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit, sued the State Department after the agency stonewalled its request for records that would determine whether Hillary Clinton's refusal to place Boko Haram on the terrorist watch list had anything to do with Chagoury's support

Ambassadors investigated

Patrick Kennedy, the State Department's undersecretary for management, allegedly stopped investigators from looking into whether an ambassador accused of soliciting "sexual favors" from "minor children" had committed a crime on Hillary Clinton's watch, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday.

An inspector general report published late last year concluded the Belgian ambassador had been summoned to Washington for a meeting with Kennedy, where the undersecretary permitted him to return to his post after the ambassador simply denied the charges in an interview.

Kennedy told the inspector general he didn't open a criminal investigation because "solicitation of a prostitute ... was not a crime in the host country."

However, in testimony at the trial of Chelsea Manning more than a year earlier, Kennedy had told defense attorneys that their suggestion of his role in a cover-up of the Belgian ambassador scandal was "entirely false."

Security struggles

An internal inspector general memo revealed allegations that at least five members of Hillary Clinton's security detail solicited prostitutes in a number of countries while on official travel, including on trips to Russia and Colombia.

A diplomatic security guard was allowed to continue his oversight of Clinton's hotel security operations after allegedly soliciting prostitutes in Moscow "despite obvious counterintelligence questions," the memo said.

According to the document, a top official in the bureau of diplomatic security "reportedly told [an investigator] to shut down the four investigations" into the accused security guards, three of whom received suspensions that lasted just one day.

Hidden Iran waivers

The State Department has denied the existence of waivers granted to certain companies that would allow them to conduct business in Iran despite international sanctions against doing so.

But the waivers have surfaced in a number of reports, including Schweizer's book and an article earlier this month by the Washington Times.

Agency officials claimed they had searched 11 different offices within the State Department and had failed to turn up any documents related to the Iran waivers.

Sweden was among the countries working to convince Hillary Clinton not to impose harsh sanctions against Iran ahead of high-stakes nuclear negotiations.

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton established a separate arm of the Clinton Foundation in Sweden just as his wife was shoring up support for sanctions against Iran, the Times reported.

When the U.S. government released the sanctions list in 2011 and 2012, it included no Swedish companies.

Norway's new embassy

The government of Norway donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation and was seemingly rewarded when the State Department shelled out $177.9 million for a new embassy in Oslo in 2011.

The agency forged ahead with plans to build the complex over the objections of diplomatic officials in Norway, who suggested the money be spent to strengthen embassies and consulates in countries that faced a higher terror risk.

A leaked diplomatic cable sent to Hillary Clinton in July 2009 shows plans for the embassy project, which were developed before she arrived at the agency, had been pushed from 2011 to 2020 to free up funding.

The cable mentions Patrick Kennedy, State's undersecretary for management, as a major force in pushing the embassy project forward.

Huma's side gigs

Huma Abedin, a longtime aide and present campaign staffer for Hillary Clinton, somehow managed to secure a rare designation as a special government employee in 2012, which allowed her to collect paychecks from Teneo Strategies and the Clinton Foundation, even as she received the $135,000 salary she drew from taxpayers as Hillary's deputy chief of staff.

Teneo Strategies is a controversial consulting firm founded by a close personal friend of Bill Clinton's. The former president served as a paid adviser to the company.

Abedin reportedly housed her communications on the same private server that shielded Hillary Clinton's records from the public during that same time period.

The State Department inspector general launched an investigation into Abedin's employment status in April.

Charity, Clinton-style

A charity watchdog claimed the Clinton Foundation tried to "strong-arm" its employees after the group placed the foundation on a watch list for philanthropies with potential problems.

The watchdog group claimed Hillary Clinton's family charity had an "atypical business model" that required further review. The Clinton Foundation will stay on the list for a minimum of six months.

The group said staffers at the Clinton Foundation attempted to receive special treatment when they learned the massive philanthropy was about to be placed on the list.

Filling up at Chevron

Chevron Corporation had been embroiled in a legal battle over allegations that it polluted a stretch of Ecuador's rainforest with toxic waste for years before Hillary Clinton joined the State Department.

But the oil conglomerate, which stood to lose billions of dollars from the lawsuit, funneled generous donations to the Clinton Foundation and a political pet project of Hillary Clinton's while it lobbied the State Department to intervene in the case on its behalf.

Chevron executives have participated in Clinton Global Initiative events that placed them on the stage with Clinton insiders such as George Stephanopoulos.

Chevron's CEO even made a personal appeal to Hillary Clinton at a State Department dinner in 2012.

The company's chief executive "took the opportunity to express our concerns about developments in the Chevron Ecuador litigation" to Hillary Clinton at the banquet, emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.

While a Chevron spokesperson denied a link between the donations and the environmental lawsuit, the corporation scored a major victory in the case last year when a Clinton-appointed judge in New York blocked the enforcement of a multi-billion dollar ruling against the oil company in the U.S.

Congo cash

As a New York senator, Hillary Clinton championed a law that would have cracked down on the illicit mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton seemingly flouted that law in favor of foundation donors that had financial stakes in the mineral industry.

The head of a Canadian company with an enormous interest in the Congo's mining and oil sector, Lukas Lundin of Lundin Mining, announced a $100 million donation to the Clinton Foundation on the heels of Clinton's first presidential campaign, according to Schweizer.

After the Congolese government attempted to regain control of its own mines, the State Department intervened on behalf of Lundin Mining and another mining company, Freeport, that also happened to be a foundation donor.

A round of talks in 2010, thought to be aided by the Clinton State Department, concluded with the pair of well-connected companies retaining their stakes in the mines and with the Congolese government being shut out of its own resources.

Pulling a Belfast one

Hillary Clinton's final official trip as secretary of state highlighted conflicts of interest between her diplomatic post, the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Strategies.

The former secretary of state traveled to Belfast to claim an award from a major foundation donor at an event that was promoted by Teneo, the Washington Examiner reported last month.

Bill Clinton once served as a paid adviser to Teneo, which was co-founded by one of his top former aides.

The trip raised questions about whether Abedin, as the aide in charge of arranging the secretary's schedule, steered Hillary Clinton to the event in a move that would have undoubtedly benefited her other employer, Teneo.

 

[candycorn]

Hillarys accomplished more than any one else running. I hope they bring it up over and over.

 

[Obiwan]

Hillarys accomplished more than any one else running. I hope they bring it up over and over.

I agree, at least from one perspective.... Please see my above post!!!!!

 

[Derideo_Te]

So you are admitting that she does have accomplishments?

The bad far out weighs the good. It's pretty pathetic that the absolute best Democrats can do is Hillary, granted, they really don't have much of a choice at this point, she has the money, the liberal media backing and the political machine.

The voters will get to decide who they prefer. Initially it will be the Dem primary voters and Hillary has lost one primary already. Assuming she does better this time she will have to face off against the battle hardened best of the best winner of the GOP primary.

At that point she should be easy pickings for any of the current GOP options. They all come with masses of accomplishments of their own to woo the voters with their glittering resumes and credentials. Their track records alone take days to peruse and you can just see the divine light of leadership and righteousness shining forth from their noble faces.

I really don't know why she has your panties all in a bunch. She should be really easy to defeat given all the baggage she is drowning under if FauxNoise is to be believed. You should have an easy enough time convincing voters that needless wars and doubling the national debt again by giving the 1% yet more and more tax cuts are the answers to jobs that never materialize. Who isn't going to vote for a GOP candidate that repeal the hated ObamaCare?

When she is swept into the same dust heap as Fritz Mondale and George McGovern, I bet that cackle will fall silent.

Which of the GOP "dust bunnies" is going to accomplish that feat IYO?

She will do it to herself. HRC is her own worst enemy.

That applies to all politicians.

But if you believe that then which of the potential GOP candidates are NOT their own worst enemies and can defeat her?

 

[percysunshine]

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....November 4th, 2016....NYcarbineer deftly slips into the voting booth after glancing around to see if he is being watched. On the ballot before him are two choices. Hillary Clinton, and Scott Walker. He glances a second time. Just to make sure he is alone....and then he does it. He votes for the Republican. After leaving the voting booth, he brags to his friends about how he slammed Walker, not knowing that his friends all did exactly what he did. Even if Hillary were to win, NYcarbineer will sleep restfully that night.

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[Lumpy 1]

Id bet dinner for two the Fiorona we'll be the republican vp candidate

This country is facing economic disaster at a time when the terrorists are infiltrating the homeland.

She seems a far more formidable candidate than described in the media, that's for sure. Someone that has top level business experience and is prone to get America (including the inner-city American ghetto's) back to work, good education and opportunity deserves interest.

Thanks for the early morning laughs...

I do what I can although it's pretty easy making the pointy hat, "D"s laugh...

 

[Lumpy 1]

Actually, Hillary has quite a list of accomplishments....

In addition to voting for the war in Iraq when she was a Senator, she accomplished the following as Secretary of State...

Hillary Clinton s fifteen biggest scandals WashingtonExaminer.com


Boeing bucks

Boeing gave generously to the Clinton Foundation after Hillary Clinton personally intervened on its behalf to secure a lucrative contract with the Russian government.

The secretary of state made what she called a "shameless pitch" to the state-owned Russian carrier Rosavia in October 2009.


Russia struck a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing in June 2010, after which the aerospace conglomerate cut a $900,000 check to the Clinton Foundation.

Speaker fees

Bill Clinton doubled the amount of money he earned from speaking engagements funded by foreign entities while his wife served as secretary of state.

The spike in foreign groups that became interested in hosting the former president raised questions as to whether their invitations were made in an effort to curry favor with the secretary of state.

For example, Bill Clinton earned $2.2 million from just six international speeches in 2014, but reportedly made $4.8 million from 13 speeches in foreign countries in 2010

Uranium One

Hillary Clinton's role in approving a contentious uranium contract emerged in Peter Schweizer's May book Clinton Cash.

In the deal, a state-owned Russian energy agency took over a Canadian company, Uranium One, that controlled such a large stake in America's uranium deposits that the transaction required approval from Hillary Clinton and other cabinet-level officials.

Frank Giustra, a top Clinton Foundation donor and close friend of the former president, served as a financial adviser to Uranium One as the deal unfolded.

The charity failed to disclose other significant donations from individuals and entities involved in the transaction, including the $2.35 million Uranium One chair Ian Telfer funneled to the charity through another foundation under his control.

Airbrushing IG reports

The State Department's acting inspector general, Harold Geisel, appears to have removed damaging passages from a report before publishing it in February 2013.

References to specific cases in which high-level State officials halted internal investigations and descriptions of the extent and frequency of those interventions appear in several early drafts but were later eliminated, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.

The unexplained gaps between the reports call into question Geisel's independence as an interim inspector general.

Among the passages removed was an allegation that diplomatic security staff had covered up the solicitation of prostitutes by Hillary Clinton's security team on official travel and that higher-ups had shielded an official with an alleged history of sexual assault from being investigated for attacking embassy staff.

Blumenthal's back

Hillary Clinton's reliance on an informal adviser whom she called an "old friend" sparked controversy when her published emails revealed him to be her main source of intelligence in the run-up to Benghazi.

Sidney Blumenthal's brutal campaign against then-Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary made him an enemy of the administration even after Hillary Clinton was selected to join Obama's cabinet. Her attempts to hire Blumenthal were reportedly nixed by Obama's staff.

Blumenthal's ties to a group of businessmen who were attempting to drum up contracts in the Libya — with the help of the State Department — raise questions about the motives behind the intelligence memos he sent Hillary Clinton.

Boko Haram

The State Department has ignored a lawsuit over its failure to comply with a FOIA request for records pertaining to a Nigerian businessman.

Gilbert Chagoury, who gave between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, was indicted in the Halliburton bribery scandal in 2010 alongside his brother. Chagoury is reportedly a close friend of Bill Clinton who spent time traveling with the former president through Europe.

Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit, sued the State Department after the agency stonewalled its request for records that would determine whether Hillary Clinton's refusal to place Boko Haram on the terrorist watch list had anything to do with Chagoury's support

Ambassadors investigated

Patrick Kennedy, the State Department's undersecretary for management, allegedly stopped investigators from looking into whether an ambassador accused of soliciting "sexual favors" from "minor children" had committed a crime on Hillary Clinton's watch, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday.

An inspector general report published late last year concluded the Belgian ambassador had been summoned to Washington for a meeting with Kennedy, where the undersecretary permitted him to return to his post after the ambassador simply denied the charges in an interview.

Kennedy told the inspector general he didn't open a criminal investigation because "solicitation of a prostitute ... was not a crime in the host country."

However, in testimony at the trial of Chelsea Manning more than a year earlier, Kennedy had told defense attorneys that their suggestion of his role in a cover-up of the Belgian ambassador scandal was "entirely false."

Security struggles

An internal inspector general memo revealed allegations that at least five members of Hillary Clinton's security detail solicited prostitutes in a number of countries while on official travel, including on trips to Russia and Colombia.

A diplomatic security guard was allowed to continue his oversight of Clinton's hotel security operations after allegedly soliciting prostitutes in Moscow "despite obvious counterintelligence questions," the memo said.

According to the document, a top official in the bureau of diplomatic security "reportedly told [an investigator] to shut down the four investigations" into the accused security guards, three of whom received suspensions that lasted just one day.

Hidden Iran waivers

The State Department has denied the existence of waivers granted to certain companies that would allow them to conduct business in Iran despite international sanctions against doing so.

But the waivers have surfaced in a number of reports, including Schweizer's book and an article earlier this month by the Washington Times.

Agency officials claimed they had searched 11 different offices within the State Department and had failed to turn up any documents related to the Iran waivers.

Sweden was among the countries working to convince Hillary Clinton not to impose harsh sanctions against Iran ahead of high-stakes nuclear negotiations.

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton established a separate arm of the Clinton Foundation in Sweden just as his wife was shoring up support for sanctions against Iran, the Times reported.

When the U.S. government released the sanctions list in 2011 and 2012, it included no Swedish companies.

Norway's new embassy

The government of Norway donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation and was seemingly rewarded when the State Department shelled out $177.9 million for a new embassy in Oslo in 2011.

The agency forged ahead with plans to build the complex over the objections of diplomatic officials in Norway, who suggested the money be spent to strengthen embassies and consulates in countries that faced a higher terror risk.

A leaked diplomatic cable sent to Hillary Clinton in July 2009 shows plans for the embassy project, which were developed before she arrived at the agency, had been pushed from 2011 to 2020 to free up funding.

The cable mentions Patrick Kennedy, State's undersecretary for management, as a major force in pushing the embassy project forward.

Huma's side gigs

Huma Abedin, a longtime aide and present campaign staffer for Hillary Clinton, somehow managed to secure a rare designation as a special government employee in 2012, which allowed her to collect paychecks from Teneo Strategies and the Clinton Foundation, even as she received the $135,000 salary she drew from taxpayers as Hillary's deputy chief of staff.

Teneo Strategies is a controversial consulting firm founded by a close personal friend of Bill Clinton's. The former president served as a paid adviser to the company.

Abedin reportedly housed her communications on the same private server that shielded Hillary Clinton's records from the public during that same time period.

The State Department inspector general launched an investigation into Abedin's employment status in April.

Charity, Clinton-style

A charity watchdog claimed the Clinton Foundation tried to "strong-arm" its employees after the group placed the foundation on a watch list for philanthropies with potential problems.

The watchdog group claimed Hillary Clinton's family charity had an "atypical business model" that required further review. The Clinton Foundation will stay on the list for a minimum of six months.

The group said staffers at the Clinton Foundation attempted to receive special treatment when they learned the massive philanthropy was about to be placed on the list.

Filling up at Chevron

Chevron Corporation had been embroiled in a legal battle over allegations that it polluted a stretch of Ecuador's rainforest with toxic waste for years before Hillary Clinton joined the State Department.

But the oil conglomerate, which stood to lose billions of dollars from the lawsuit, funneled generous donations to the Clinton Foundation and a political pet project of Hillary Clinton's while it lobbied the State Department to intervene in the case on its behalf.

Chevron executives have participated in Clinton Global Initiative events that placed them on the stage with Clinton insiders such as George Stephanopoulos.

Chevron's CEO even made a personal appeal to Hillary Clinton at a State Department dinner in 2012.

The company's chief executive "took the opportunity to express our concerns about developments in the Chevron Ecuador litigation" to Hillary Clinton at the banquet, emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.

While a Chevron spokesperson denied a link between the donations and the environmental lawsuit, the corporation scored a major victory in the case last year when a Clinton-appointed judge in New York blocked the enforcement of a multi-billion dollar ruling against the oil company in the U.S.

Congo cash

As a New York senator, Hillary Clinton championed a law that would have cracked down on the illicit mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton seemingly flouted that law in favor of foundation donors that had financial stakes in the mineral industry.

The head of a Canadian company with an enormous interest in the Congo's mining and oil sector, Lukas Lundin of Lundin Mining, announced a $100 million donation to the Clinton Foundation on the heels of Clinton's first presidential campaign, according to Schweizer.

After the Congolese government attempted to regain control of its own mines, the State Department intervened on behalf of Lundin Mining and another mining company, Freeport, that also happened to be a foundation donor.

A round of talks in 2010, thought to be aided by the Clinton State Department, concluded with the pair of well-connected companies retaining their stakes in the mines and with the Congolese government being shut out of its own resources.

Pulling a Belfast one

Hillary Clinton's final official trip as secretary of state highlighted conflicts of interest between her diplomatic post, the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Strategies.

The former secretary of state traveled to Belfast to claim an award from a major foundation donor at an event that was promoted by Teneo, the Washington Examiner reported last month.

Bill Clinton once served as a paid adviser to Teneo, which was co-founded by one of his top former aides.

The trip raised questions about whether Abedin, as the aide in charge of arranging the secretary's schedule, steered Hillary Clinton to the event in a move that would have undoubtedly benefited her other employer, Teneo.

Great Post, Thank You...Alas, for Democrats reading such a post would be considered treason to the "Party".

 

[mikegriffith1]

Eee-gads, what "accomplishments" does Hillary have to her credit? Her tenure as Sec State included the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, her failure to increase security adequately at the Benghazi facility, the Russian "reset" joke, the collapse of pro-American regimes in the Middle East, the failure to stabilize Iraq with a residual force, etc., etc.

 

[whitehall]

As always the political definition of "civilized" as in "civilized debate" is a debate that has a former staff member of the Clinton administration (like George Stephonoplis) throwing soft ball questions at Hillary.

"Tell your momma, tell your paw, gonna send her back to Arkansaw" .....Ray Charles

 

[Flipper]

What does what Walker has to say have any bearing at all on Mrs. Clinton?

To answer your question, yes and this:

Are you saying that Walker is an idiot?

Hillary is an idiot as are her supporters.