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Are We Going To Talk About This At All?

By: Pejman Yousefzadeh (Diary)  |  January 14th, 2009 at 01:41 AM  | 

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Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clintonintervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband’s foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.

The overlap of names on former President Bill Clinton’s foundation donor list and business interests whose issues she championed raise new questions about potential ethics conflicts between her official actions and her husband’s fundraising. The AP obtained three of the senator’s government letters under the Freedom of Information Act.

The conflicts are legion. As pointed out here, similar conflicts prevented Henry Kissinger from serving as the 9/11 Committee Chairman. Why are they not preventing Hillary Clinton from being Secretary of State?

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  • Jack

    No they will not talk about it. I am glad they won’t. Let them have it all and then be patient. They will self destruct.

    • OccamsRazor

      Get yourself back on track. You are an ‘American Spirit Rubber Stamp’.

  • Kowalski

    We’re not talking about it because you don’t understand Newspeak.

    For Republicans, a “Conflict of Interest” means a career-ending mine that they stepped on which blows off their legs if they’re running for any important position, destroys their lives, and the lives of all their family members.

    For Democrats, a “Conflict of Interest” is actually a positive entry in their curriculum vitae which suggests that they are even more qualified for the job than they would have been if they had submitted a simple resume.

    Understand?

    • Kowalski

      I meant the collective “you.” ;)

      It’s a little like the collective “we” — as in:

      “The Democrats are all getting together to show their we-ness to Hillary Clinton, who you expect to be confirmed as Secretary of State because of her conflicts of interest.”

  • Magic2171

    Because she is a Democrat and the normal rules do not apply.

    Dummy

  • Kowalski

    I don’t know whether you saw on Drudge yesterday that Christopher Hitchens already asked a version of this question, but the fact that he did means:

    “Nobody Cares.”

    That’s the kind of power Hitchens wields these days. Sure, he writes for Slate, but let’s look at what Slate has to offer these days:

    There are stories about why the Obama White House will serve better wine than the Bush White House did.

    There are stories about why Facebook is so superb.

    And of course there are “Bees on Blow.”

    It’s become a much harder news outlet than it once was, and the amount of interest you’re seeing based on Christopher Hitchens’ article is a measure of the public’s respect for that, and all its writers and contributors.