A Bill Comes Due

One of the most intriguing “unanticipated consequences” of Obama's intended nomination of Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state is that it is forcing her husband to “out” all of the high-rolling donors to his alleged “charities”. Wow – the hits just keep coming, and she isn't even in office yet. And don't you know she wishes she'd dumped the big bozo long ago, but now it's too late. At any rate, look at the (partial) list of donors to Bill Clinton's “cause”. It includes foreign governments – mostly Arabian... the Dutch national lottery (!?)... Blackwater (big surprise there)... Indian businessmen... a Swedish lottery (!?)... Israeli businessmen... and countless others, both large and small. Now, what do all these people and organizations have in common, other than being on the donor list for an organization headed by one of the biggest con artists of all time? Well, think about it. Let's say you're a businessman in some foreign country. You have “interests”, and you're always looking for places to invest money in order to protect, or promote, those interests. At some point you notice that the leader of the dominant political party in the (still) most powerful country on earth has a “charitable” organization. So what do you do? Why, you make a substantial contribution; what idiot wouldn't?

Now – you'll say – but what if... “what if”... the donors are really and truly concerned about things like “reducing poverty and treating AIDS”? Uh huh... do you really think Blackwater give's a rat's rear end about poverty or AIDS? In that case, please share whatever you're smoking with me! Now, it is possible that a few – OK, a few thousand – people contributed for the “right” reasons, i.e. based on truly charitable impulses. But let's face it, the big players all expect some return on their investment – they always do. And what might that return be? Well, it's hard to say, given that there are donors from both the Arab and Israeli camps, for example. No wonder Bill Clinton didn't want to reveal his donor list! It looks like he's developed “triangulation” to a whole new level. The Democrats, and/or Hillary, surely can't favor everybody all at once – and yet that's precisely what would have to happen for all of these donors to be satisfied. So I get a feeling some of them are feeling a wee bit conned by now... all richly deserved, of course. Not that – heaven forbid! -- any of them ever thought they could “buy” the Democratic party, or (in retrospect) Hillary's State Department. Why, that would be like the Chinese thinking they could buy the Clinton administration with laundered campaign contributions. Oops...