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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Here’s the line-up of President-elect Barack Obama’s advisors and Cabinet officers as of tonight:
Attorney General – Eric Holder
Chief of Staff – Rahm Emanuel
Commerce – Bill Richardson
Council of Economic Advisors – Christina Romer
Defense – Robert Gates
Health & Human Services – Tom Daschle
Homeland Security – Janet Napolitano
National Economic Council – Larry Summers
National Security Advisor – James Jones
State – Hillary Clinton
Treasury – Timothy Geithner
UN Ambassador – Susan Rice

The biggie on that list is Sen. Clinton to be Secretary of State.

To be fair, former President Bill Clinton pretty much opened up his donor files and made his speaking schedule and new income sources subject to ethics reviews. Sounds like a small price, but for someone like Bill Clinton that – and other concessions – are very big deals.

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BFF (Best Friends Forever)
By Nancy Benac

It wasn’t too long ago that Barack Obama and his advisers were tripping over one another to tear down Hillary Rodham Clinton’s foreign policy credentials. She was dismissed as a commander in chief wanna-be who did little more than sip tea and make small talk with foreign leaders during her days as first lady.

“What exactly is this foreign policy experience?” Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. “Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no.”

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