geojanes wrote: No way Hillary Clinton is the next president of the USA.

Doctor Fate wrote:

geojanes wrote: No way Hillary Clinton is the next president of the USA.

There are two ways:

1. Jeb is the GOP nominee. The base he so disdains stays home.
2. The GOP nominee does something incredibly stupid (worse than the 47% comment of Romney).

Inherent in both of these is the calculation that Hillary manages to keep a very large gender gap. She might--the "excitement" of electing the first woman might be too much for ill-informed women. Some might think, "Corruption? So what? All politicians are crooks."

I think Rubio could defeat Hillary.

The problem, I think, for the Democrats is that they've invested so much in Hillary that no one else has a chance at the nomination.

I mean, really, who else is there?

rickyp wrote:WHo Runs the Foundation?
Bruce Lindsay is Chairman of the Board, and Chelsea is Vice-Chair
Bill Clinton is a board member but Hillary is no where on the management structure.
Frank Giustra is a board member...so its small wonder that money came from Uranium One to the Clinton Foundation...

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/board-directors

Leadership Team as of January 2015

MAURA PALLY, ACTING CEO AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, WOMEN AND YOUTH PROGRAMS
ANDREW KESSEL, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
VALERIE ALEXANDER, CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
SCOTT CURRAN, GENERAL COUNSEL
AMITABH DESAI, FOREIGN POLICY DIRECTOR
RAIN HENDERSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CLINTON HEALTH MATTERS INITIATIVE
MARK GUNTON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CLINTON GIUSTRA ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP
ROBERT HARRISON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
BARI LURIE, CHIEF OF STAFF, OFFICE OF CHELSEA CLINTON
TERRI MCCULLOUGH, DIRECTOR, NO CEILINGS: THE FULL PARTICIPATION PROJECT
PATTI MILLER, DIRECTOR, TOO SMALL TO FAIL
CRAIG MINASSIAN, CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
WALKER MORRIS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CLINTON DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
STEPHANIE S. STREETT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DYMPHNA VAN DER LANS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CLINTON CLIMATE INITIATIVE
Leaders of Affiliated Entities

IRA MAGAZINER, VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE
DR. HOWELL WECHSLER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION

I don't know why the Foundation doesn't pay interns

Are you making any argument or are you simply posting random google searches?

rickyp wrote:fate

Are you making any argument or are you simply posting random google searches?

I guess you need things spelled out for you ...

You seem to think that Hillary is responsible for the Foundation. If she doesn't run it, has little involvement in it, then that's a false line.

In 2008, before Hillary Clinton became Obama's secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation and the Obama administration signed an agreement that outlined how the foundation would deal with conflict of interest questions but still be allowed to continue its philanthropic work.

One aspect of the agreement was that the Clinton Foundation would stop taking new foreign donations, except from those countries that had previously donated to the foundation and didn't increase their contributions.

The Algerian government aid was a one-time donation to help Haiti, the statement said, and the government had not donated to the foundation before or since.

The statement was prompted by a Washington Post​ story that reported "the Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state," including the Algerian government donations that violated the agreement.

The other foreign governments that continued donating while Clinton was secretary of state, according to the Post, were Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Australia, Norway and the Dominican Republic. Some of this donations were multi-year grants for specific issues.

On July 11, 2012, at the London School of Economics, former President Bill Clinton discussed the annual Clinton Global Initiative meetings. In his speech, he said his foundation receiving foreign money to sponsor their meeting while wife, former first lady Hillary Clinton, was Secretary of State raised concerns of conflict of interest with “good reason.”

Clinton said, “We had one in Hong Kong for Asia which I had to suspend while Hillary was secretary of state, with good reason. In order to do one around the world and make the economics work and keep the entry fee fairly low, you have to have sponsors. And if your wife is secretary of state and you get sponsors in another country, they may be doing it just because they believe in it, but it opens up too many questions of conflict of interest. So we suspended those.”

rickyp wrote:You seem to think that she is influenced by donations made to the Foundation. There's never been a shred of evidence that she has been influenced, just innuendo.

The newly obtained chapter, titled “Indian Nukes: How to Win a Medal by Changing Hillary’s Mind,” details a series of donations and overtures from Indians who supported the nuclear deal to the Clintons, and points to one case of an Indian-American Clinton donor — who in April 2014 pleaded guilty in an illegal contribution scheme for Clinton’s 2008 run — receiving an award from the Indian government for his work in securing the agreement.

“In 1998 the Indian government conducted nuclear tests, Bill Clinton imposed restrictions on the export of U.S. nuclear technology, because this violated the nonproliferation treaty — Hillary Clinton supported that position,” Schweizer said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” outlining the chapter. “In 2005, the Indian government wanted those restrictions lifted. Hillary Clinton at that time supported a killer amendment to stop that from happening. After 2005, a number of Indian interests, including an Indian politician that admits now that his donation to the Clinton Foundation wasn’t even his money, those donations flowed. In 2008, she reverses course and supports the export of U.S. nuclear technology.”

While Clinton’s stance toward India evolved over the years, a review of then-Sen. Clinton’s statements and votes while the Indian nuclear deal was under debate shows that one of the key facts in Schweizer’s argument on the topic is false — Clinton actually publicly stated her support for the deal in 2006. Another is in dispute – Schweizer writes that Clinton voted to cap India’s fissile production, when she actually voted against a measure that did that, though she did support a weaker one that imposed some limits.

Schweizer, who wrote that Clinton voted for a “’killer amendment’ that would have effectively gutted the bill by capping India’s fissile production,” contends that the Clinton camp is trying to “blur” Clinton’s position. He says the “killer amendment” the book refers to is the one submitted by Sen. Russ Feingold that would have asked for Indian assurances that American nuclear fuel would not be used to increase fissile material production “in unsafeguarded nuclear facilities” – which Clinton did vote for. But as Feingold’s measure referred specifically to fissile material production within unsafeguarded facilities, it was less restrictive than the one proposed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman. Clinton voted against Bingaman’s measure, which would have mandated a presidential report stating that “India has stopped producing fissile materials for weapons pursuant to a unilateral or multilateral agreement.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/c ... z3YtiQLYMw

But even this innuendo has less credibility if she isn't involved in the Foundations management..
Does she even know when someone donates?

freeman3 wrote:I don't know, that's a pretty tough standard you have there, Brad...what did Obama, McCain, Gore, Bush II, Bush I,Clinton, Dole, Mondale, Reagan, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Dukakis accomplish before they ran for office? They did stuff...like Hillary Clinton did stuff (in fact, probably her whole purpose in being senator was to be a springboard to run for president) but accomplishments? LBJ, Eisenhower, Truman and Roosevelt had prior accomplishments...recently, with regard to presidential candidates, not so much.

bbauska wrote:McCain - Military man, adoptive parent, strong on defense as a congressman
Dole - Military man, Hawkish against Communism