Tag: Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Nails It

Buck Banks

“Their New Deal is socialism for the super-rich (and their own enrichment) even if it means increasing poverty, inequality, and illness at home and around the world. They also want to rewrite history to ignore and outright deny our past flaws while banning books that say otherwise from our libraries. And they select even our military leaders based on their version of political correctness over ability.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Bubba’s Speaking Fees a Possible Conflict for Hillary Clinton

Buck Banks

$8 million

Speaking fees paid by more than two dozen companies and groups and one foreign government to former President Bill Clinton to give speeches around the time they also had matters before Hillary Clinton’s State Department, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Fifteen of them also donated a total of between $5 million and $15 million to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the family’s charity, according to foundation disclosures.

Iowa Voters OK with Ex-Presidents as Political Advisers

Buck Banks

57%

Of likely Republican caucus-goers said that it would be “mostly good” for Jeb Bush’s presidency if he were to tap his older brother, George, as a close adviser, according to a new Bloomberg/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll. Thirty-three percent said such an arrangement would be “mostly bad” for Jeb Bush’s presidency. As for Hillary Clinton, a whopping 83% of likely Democratic caucus-goers approved of the idea of her using her husband, Bill, as a close adviser, while just 9% said doing so was a “mostly bad” suggestion for her presidency.

Clintons Create a ‘Soap-Operatic Political Universe’

Buck Banks

Along with her husband—the 42nd President of the United States—Hillary Clinton is the co-creator of a soap-operatic political universe in which documents vanish, words like is take on multiple meanings and foes almost always overplay their hand. Impeachment can be a route to higher approval ratings; the occasional (and rare) defeat merely marks the start of the next campaign. Whatever rules may apply to them, the law of gravity is not one.

— Time