Hillary Clinton's Huge Conflict of Interest

danarhea · 04-06-08, 04:08 PM

I won't post any opinion about this. Instead, I will post a snippet from the article. Then you will realize why I did not have to post an opinion. The article itself is self explanatory.

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Let's say that the Democratic nomination battle had been winnowed down to two candidates, and that one of those two candidates (let's call him Barack Obama) was a huge favorite to win. Meanwhile, the GOP nominee has been all but decided. (We'll call him John McCain.)

Now let's imagine that Obama's opponent (we'll call her Hillary Clinton) was desperately slinging every piece of mud she could at him without regard to whether or not her attacks would help John McCain.

Finally, imagine that you found out that Clinton's chief strategist was not only her campaign's leading advocate for these attacks -- but was also the CEO of a public affairs firm whose DC-based lobbying subsidiary was headed up by John McCain's top adviser.

Would you say this posed at least the appearance of a conflict of interest for the strategist in question?

What would you think if you found out that it's all true? Well, it is true.

Article is here.

independent_thinker2002 · 04-06-08, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by danarhea

I won't post any opinion about this. Instead, I will post a snippet from the article. Then you will realize why I did not have to post an opinion. The article itself is self explanatory.

Article is here.

That's business as usual in D.C.

Vote for change.

TacticalEvilDan · 04-06-08, 04:44 PM

I've given it some serious thought, and I very very very badly want Clinton to win the Presidency.

I figure we have to break this country before we can really fix it, and I'd like to see it shatter sooner rather than later.

Redfactor · 04-06-08, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by danarhea

I won't post any opinion about this. Instead, I will post a snippet from the article. Then you will realize why I did not have to post an opinion. The article itself is self explanatory.

Article is here.

McCain's adviser, Charlie Black, resigned from his job when he joined the campaign full time.

danarhea · 04-06-08, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Redfactor

McCain's adviser, Charlie Black, resigned from his job when he joined the campaign full time.

This is not so much a reflection of the McCain campaign is it is on Hillary's campaign, and who she is willing to get into bed with with... politically speaking of course.

Redfactor · 04-06-08, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by danarhea

This is not so much a reflection of the McCain campaign is it is on Hillary's campaign, and who she is willing to get into bed with with... politically speaking of course.

Then this thread is a bit worse off than I originally thought.

Mark Penn's company owns (formerly) Charlie Black's company.

Mark Penn is Hillary's adviser.

Why would you think that Mark Penn would somehow be under the influence of Charlie Black?

Penn was Black's boss, not the other way around.

PeteEU · 04-07-08, 06:11 AM

Conflict of interest is nothing new in US politics.. infact I would claim that Americans dont understand the meaning of conflict of interest.