Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Any scandal will do.

The USA State Department and the FBI has cleared the emails and have no reason for any action. Now, the US House has gotten there hands of thinks yet unread by the American people and they are willing to spend millions and millions more on political priorities, namely to defeat Secretary Clinton in her election bid to the Presidency.

Secretary Clinton has a very long history of service to the USA at many different levels of government. She has been in service to the American children long before she entered politics. I am fairly sure I know who she is and her character.

What never enters the discussion are the multitudes of trumped up scandals about them and their use of power. There isn't a library big enough. I am sure the authors made a lot of money, but, I am quite confident generosity from the sale of their books to the poor never was realized.

The Clinton Foundation has been in existence since President Bill Clinton finished eight years in office. Why does it exist? Not because just the American people dearly wanted President Clinton to remain active, but, the entire world did. THE ENTIRE WORLD. That is not an exaggeration. Ask the late President of North Korea who he would rather deal with in any talks and he would always say, "Clint-on." No word of a lie. The North Korean nuclear seals were firmly in place when President Bill Clinton served the American people. 

The Clinton Foundation is vital to the global network. The poorest of countries are welcome. The Clinton Foundation seeks to resolve the status of disadvantaged people by bringing donors, grants and loans together to solve an important problem. It works. Is the work controversial? Is that really a question? Donald Trump is calling for a special prosecutor. MORE USA TREASURY MONEY WASTED ON POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS.

I would like to know how many lives were saved, how many countries were served, how many wars averted and how many countries appreciated the USA due to the Clinton Foundation. I suppose the foundation could make the controversy end by moving it's office to Europe, but, why would we want a former President of the USA to leave in order to continue his work. That is not the case with President Carter or either of the Bushs. And it might be interesting to note none of them are under scrutiny or demanding a special prosecutor. 

The Clinton Foundation does what governments can't, they reach across all venues of funding to solve problems. The former president and former secretary earn their money the hard way, they earn it. They worked in government and when not serving in office they made speeches and met donors and friends at dinners. They carried out their lives open and above board without any cabals to serve them while in power. 

These scandals trumped by the Republican party and those Republicans in the US House are nonsense. They have always been nonsense, they are nonsense today and they will be nonsense in the future.

Why can't a country appreciate a Rhodes Scholar (click here) and talented man that builds consensus and minimizes his influence in agreements made between parties he is able to bring together. 

Former President Bill Clinton is a man of peace. He believes in his ability to understand the strife of Americans and foreign countries and their people. There is nothing wrong with that and there is a lot right with that. After his second term in office his spouse and later his daughter would help him achieve incredible cooperation between parties no one other than he could dream of bringing consensus to solve problems. 

The Clinton Foundation is vital to many problem in the world. It is not a clearinghouse for corrupt cash. I though that was exclusive to offshoring and Panama. There is no reason for the foundation to end it's work. The world would be the worse for it. That is probably what bothers Republicans the most. There might not be another Saddam to scapegoat for the next oil invasion.

August 23, 2016
By Michael A. Cohen
I’m fairly sure (click here) that when William Shakespeare penned the phrase “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” he did not have in mind the constant cycle of scandals that envelop Bill and Hillary Clinton. But the phrase easily applies.
When it comes to the Clintons, the most mundane actions can be raised to the specter of national outrage, because of the appearance, but not actual incident, of impropriety.
Take, for example, the imbroglio over newly released e-mails regarding interactions between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Clinton was secretary of state. These exchanges, primarily between Clinton’s assistant Huma Abedin and Clinton Foundation top honcho Doug Band, have become Exhibit A in efforts to brand Clinton as a corrupt figure and the Foundation as a pay-for-play operation. The evidence, however, speaks to a different reality....