Clinton Foundation / Clinton Wealth questions linger (POL)

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Originally posted by: pjstroh
Hoops sounds like one of them class-warfare, success-hatin' liberal types.

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Originally posted by: jphelan

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Originally posted by: forkushV

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Originally posted by: DonDiego
DonDiego opines the 15% figure is as originally described.

Of all the funds which departed the Clinton Foundation from 2009 through 2103
__85% was expenses
__15% was "charitable" grants...

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According to DonDiego's typically dishonest metric:

Of all the funds which departed the American Red Cross for the year ending 6/2013
__92% was expenses
__8% was "charitable" grants

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I believe the original source is correct - that 15% of revenue to the Clinton foundation were distributed as charitable grants. However this is misleading as all "charitable" works of the Clinton foundation are completed within the charitable grants and this is not out of line with other charities (i.e. the American Red Cross)...

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Originally posted by: Boilerman
One thing is certain. There will be no transparency when Hillary refiles the tax return for their foundation. This will allow Liberals who don't care that Hillary is a crook to cry "See, no proof!"

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Originally posted by: pjstroh
Bill Clinton dedicates his post-presidency to treating HIV, malaria, bad drinking water, and civil rights problems.

George W Bush dedicates his post-presidency to painting picture of his toes in the bathtub....and holding seminars in the Cayman Islands showing billionaires how to hide their money off-shore.
Bush teaches billionaires how to game the system

I'm looking forward to the campaign season where "conservative evangelicals" scream bloody murder about the former.

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

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Originally posted by: hoops2

Is that the best you can come up with about President Bush - a 3 year old story?

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Yep ! That's all I got. There's not much to report on President Bush in his post presidential life. Like most Republican president's he spends most of his time playing with his money....and in his case - teaching other rich people how to hide their money from the IRS. What a patriot.

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and (coming soon) Barack Obama all have massive records of post-presidential philanthropy on large scales. I'm sure it doesn't hurt their feelings when the birth-certificate ingrates make up false statistics about their charities' finances. In the grand scheme of things the number of people who consider "the Federalist" a legitimate source of information is laughably small.

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

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Originally posted by: hoops2

Is that the best you can come up with about President Bush - a 3 year old story?

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Yep ! That's all I got. There's not much to report on President Bush in his post presidential life. Like most Republican president's he spends most of his time playing with his money....and in his case - teaching other rich people how to hide their money from the IRS. What a patriot.

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and (coming soon) Barack Obama all have massive records of post-presidential philanthropy on large scales. I'm sure it doesn't hurt their feelings when the birth-certificate ingrates make up false statistics about their charities' finances. In the grand scheme of things the number of people who consider "the Federalist" a legitimate source of information is laughably small.

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Originally posted by: pjstroh
And boilerman takes true statistics and turns them into bullshit on Internet message boards

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Originally posted by: forkushV

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Originally posted by: jphelan

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Originally posted by: forkushV

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Originally posted by: DonDiego
DonDiego opines the 15% figure is as originally described.

Of all the funds which departed the Clinton Foundation from 2009 through 2103
__85% was expenses
__15% was "charitable" grants...

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According to DonDiego's typically dishonest metric:

Of all the funds which departed the American Red Cross for the year ending 6/2013
__92% was expenses
__8% was "charitable" grants

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I believe the original source is correct - that 15% of revenue to the Clinton foundation were distributed as charitable grants. However this is misleading as all "charitable" works of the Clinton foundation are completed within the charitable grants and this is not out of line with other charities (i.e. the American Red Cross)...

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And I see you changed the title of the thread accordingly. Good for you.

I'd like to think I would do the same if I ever made a mistake with the title of a political thread here. Although the chances of me making that kind of mistake are pretty much non-existent.

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Originally posted by: hoops2
The clinton's have made over $100m since bubba left office. Their daughter was making $600k doing an occasional story for NBC. THeir net worth is more than President Bush. The only philanthropy that is going on is for the family.

The only charity work obama will do is showing up as at a charity golf tourney

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