The Clinton double-team shuffle


What's said and what's done are two completely different things. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.
If you believe this, you didn't pay attention during the 1990s.

Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute.

But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife.

Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002.

Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas.

It was part of an effort by the emirates, said a person close to UAE officials, to forge a close relationship with a former US president who is influential and highly regarded in the region.

Time and time again, the Clintons said one thing and did another. One of their preferred tactics was to have one of them say one thing while the other did something completely opposite.

That way both maintained deniability.

Why do I think that this is more of the same?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - March 6, 2006 at 04:43 AM  Tag


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