Former President Bill Clinton revealed the donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation today, fulfilling a deal he made with Barack Obama to get his wife Hillary Clinton nominated as Secretary of State.
As reported by several news agencies, Bill Clinton had to reveal the donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation as part of the deal to get Hillary Clinton nominated as Secretary of State by Barack Obama. The William J. Clinton Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Harlem, New York that was founded by Bill Clinton after he left the White House.
The William J. Clinton Foundation’s purpose, according to its website, is to “strengthen the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.” The Foundation provides funding to organizations and corporations that further its purpose throughout the world, and often serves as an incubator for new policies and programs. The Foundation, for example, gives money to AIDS treatment organizations in Africa, and funded the construction of the presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The list of donors is a drawing criticism from many Clinton-haters. Many of the the biggest contributors were foreign entities, including the government of Saudi Arabia. Remember, liberals have consistently bashed George H.W. Bush for his ties to Saudi Arabia. Bush’s links to Saudi Arabia was one of the main themes of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9-11.”
Perhaps the most disturbing donation is from Denise Rich, who donated somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000. Bill Clinton pardoned Denise Rich’s husband Marc Rich from tax evasion and fraud charges at the end of his presidency. The pardon was controversial at the time as there appeared to be no reason to pardon Rich than the fact that he was friends with Bill Clinton.
Below is a partial list of the biggest donors to the Foundation:
Donors who gave more than $25 million:
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
UNITAID
$10,000,001 to $25,000,000:
AUSAID (Australian government aid program)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Stephen L. Bing
COPRESIDA-Secretariado Tecnico (Dominican Republic AIDS agency)
Fred Eychaner
Frank Giustra, chief executive officer, The Radcliffe Foundation
Tom Golisano
The Hunter Foundation
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The ELMA Foundation
Theodore W. Waitt
$5,000,001 to $10,000,000:
Government of Norway
Nationale Postcode Loterij (Netherlands charity lottery)
Haim Saban and The Saban Family Foundation
Michael Schumacher
The Wasserman Foundation
December 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
The government of Norway must have thought “Bill Clinton” was a new brand of kippered herring. That donation is pretty weird.
December 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
This picture would be a caption pic.
“That cigar taste really funny!”
It all about power and money with Bill and Hill. That is why everything is about them. I bet you Obama nominated Bill for the Supreme Court. Bill would take it so he could be the second President to do so. Except that Bill won’t be able to stop talking and giving his opinions.
On Second thought. He like making money running his mouth and he couldn’t do that on the court. But I would be fun to watch.
December 20th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Once again, I would go back to when Clinton was pres. like a shot. Times were good. The govt. was well run. The budget got balanced. Crime was low. Unemployment was low. We were at peace, relatively.
This is what you want forgotten. Or, you want to explain it away, and say that he really had nothing to do with it.
History will remember Clinton as a great president Bush, of course, as one of the worst.
I just finished reading as much as I could about the Clinton Foundation. I noticed that Laura Bush has been involved with the Clinton Global Initiative to bring water to Africa. I noticed that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been involved to promote healthier diets for children. There is a much more extensive list of donors available. Blackwater International is a donor. Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, the Rockefeller Foundation, Wal-Mart. You can find the list on the Internet.
Here is something that might do some good for the world. I look at this, and then I think about what has happened the past eight years with Bush in the White House. What good has Bush done, except make the wealthiest people much more wealthy, and in the process run the economy into the ground? People are out of work, losing their jobs, losing their homes. No one can get a loan for anything. The company I work for is going to start laying people off early next year.
Let’s just see what happens now with Obama as president. Let’s just see what things are like four years from now. Let’s just see. Hopefully all this will be nothing more than a bad memory.
December 20th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Ahh…..the terrible econommy thing again –
People will stand/sit/sleep for days outide of the electronice stores in the worst of weather conditions to get their hands on the latest and greatest cell phone or video game console, and they trample one another to death at Wal-Mart over stocking stuffers. So far I’ve not seen a single report of anyone being injured during a riot breaking out in a bread line.
Things are a little tight right now, but that happens every so often, and we have to deal with it. All in all, life is pretty sweet here.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Who cares if the leader of the free world keeps it in his pants as long as we have money in our pocket.
Clinton is a liar and a womanizer but you libs love him because you like people to tell you what you want to hear, not the truth just what you want to hear and believe is the truth.
You hate Bush because he didn’t take the terrorist crap and decided that enough was enough.
Obama is from Chicago. Do you really think he is clean? I thought he was going to end the Bush War, but no, Obama is going to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. How is that not lying? For 2 years all he said was he would end the war, now he is going to increase troops. Funny how when he was briefed he crapped his pants with information he didn’t have.
I hope for the best but am prepared for the worst. At this point the best I can hope for is a short 4 years so we can get a president with a spine and a set of cojones back in. Michelle keeps Barry’s either in her purse or in refrigerator.
The problem with you Edward is that like most liberals you don’t understand that when you are attacked, you have to fight back or you will be attacked again and again. If you stop and say what will my family or my neighbors think, you are showing them that you are weak and care more about what the country thinks then about ending the attacks. You can’t be friends with people that want to kill you. If you try they will cut your head off.
Bush didn’t ask what the polls said, he knew what was at risk and choose the hard path to go down.
Maybe if Clinton had his mind on his job instead of on getting a job, Bush would not have had to put our country at war because we would have taken actions to prevent 911.
Somehow, I just don’t want to hear about anyone’s sex life, yours, the president, no ones. But you libs seem to be okay with it.
As for the foundation, it is a way for Bill to make money. The problem in Africa is that there are so many corrupt governments that never allow food, medicine, water, you name it. It never makes past the leaders. So Bubba and Laura and Bill and Melissa and the other can work with this foundation or any others and there will not be much of a change.
Obama is 16% African. Let’s see what he does to improve the lives of Africans. My guess is he will only put up some window dressing and call it a day.
He lacks the knowledge and know how to make a real change in Africa or America. He is all about the money.
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Maybe he can start with his half brother in Nairobi who lives on something like 2.00 a month in a shoe box.
Bush started and has maintained one of the best aids programs in Africa that the world has ever seen.
Dont be surprised if Obama pees on it a little later on and calls it his success.
He did sorta the same thing in Iraq.
Right before he went there for his last visit(getting those 200,000 German votes at the same time) Bush had been there just previously and discussed troop withdrawl terms with Maliki.
The plan was labeled as a foreseeable horizon but with no set dates.
Obama came along a week or two later and pretty much discussed the same thing with Maliki and came out of the meeting acting as if him and Maliki had come up with some groundbreaking plan, when actually Maliki and Bush had already discussed the same plan earlier.
All Obama did was call it something different so he could tie it to himself and make it look like he was the star.
This is just great.
Were going to have two people closer to the white house than just about anyone else whos foriegn policies are pretty much what contribited to the build up of radical Islam in the 90s.
Cuz you have to realize that more likely than not Hillary will be getting her training in foriegn affairs from her hubby.
Not being shot at in Bosnia and China laughing behind her back dont count as viable experience.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
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