Ashley Hofsommer
Tuesday March 11, 2008
This blog mainly covered all of the recent hoop-la revolving around Hillary and Bill Clinton's refusal to cough up exactly where they are getting all of their money from. There have apparently been some shading deals on the part of Bill and the couple is refusing to cough up any info. until April 15. Bill supposedly spoke at an opening event for a web browser company. Bill, of course, was expected to be paid and was given 200 shares in Google. When he later sold the stock he managed to sell it for more than it was actually worth and ended up getting about 700,00 dollars. He won't say who he sold it to, but her normally only gets about 150,000 for making these types of speeches. According to the writer, Bill also has some pretty shady looking friends. On his last day of office he pardoned 140 people, one being a financier whose wife was a big supporter and contributor to his campaign. I think the argument was pretty good and well researched. He had a lot of information that I had never even heard about before. He was obviously bias, but I had no idea that the Clintons had not yet released all of their financial statements. The Obama's did this more than a year ago. The argument was pretty good in my opinion, very bias, but good.
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I have never heard of this either. I thought it was a federal law to post how you are financing your campaign; however, it might just be that by precedent most candidates do that. This article seems well researched, which is good because if it were not this claim would have no substantial foundation at all.
This seems to be very interesting. I find it to be interesting that the government has not done more research into where all the Clinton money is coming from. If an average person just had a large amount of money all of a sudden the government would be on them. I think it is extremly unfair that politicans like the Clinton's get treated different than everyone else.
This seems to be a very itneresting article. However, its sad that its biased. Although, when dealing with politicians, specifically the Clintons, it's hard not to find a biased article. I think this shows how not everyone is treated equally in our society.
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