Bitch About Obama

By Dick Morris

Now that Bill Clinton has released the list of his 205,000 donors who have given close to $500 million to his library and foundation, it is clear why he resisted releasing the list while his wife was running for president.

Compelled by the Obama transition team to make it public as a condition of his wife’s appointment as secretary of state, it becomes clear that the list is a virtual encyclopedia of conflicts of interest for the husband of a senator, to say nothing of the husband of an incoming secretary of state.

Particularly troubling are the massive donations from Arab governments in the Middle East. How can a secretary of state possibly be impartial in conflicts involving Israel when her husband has gotten tens of millions of dollars from Arabian governments and high-ranking people. Specifically, Clinton got:

Between $10 million and $25 million from:

– The government of Saudi Arabia

Between $1 million and $5 million from:

– Friends of Saudi Arabia

– The Dubai Foundation

– Saudi businessman Nasser Al-Rashid

– Saudi tycoon Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi

– Former Lebanon Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares

– The government of Kuwait

– The government of Qatar

– The government of Oman

– The government of Brunei

– The Zayed Family, rulers of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates

He also received between $500,000 and $1 million from Saudi businessman Walid Juffali.

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By Joe Conason

While the Blagojevich scandal so far has exonerated rather than implicated Barack Obama and his staff, the president-elect’s camp has made some unnecessary mistakes in response. Inflated and distorted by hostile critics, those mistakes have risked creating public suspicion where there need be none.

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By Viola Gienger

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Russia is hardening its opposition to U.S. plans for a missile-defense system in eastern Europe, possibly to size up the incoming administration of President- elect Barack Obama, a State Department official said.

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Great video released by RNC. Check it out.

By Michael Barone

I have not seen it recorded whether John F. Kennedy, after he was elected president in 1960, held conversations with Massachusetts Gov. Foster Furcolo as to who would be appointed to fill his seat in the Senate. History does record that Furcolo, just nine days before turning the governorship over to the Republican elected to succeed him, appointed one Benjamin A. Smith II, a college roommate of Kennedy’s and former mayor of Gloucester, who chose not to seek the seat in the next election in 1962, which happened to be the year in which Edward Kennedy turned 30 and was therefore old enough to run for it.

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