Hey, ex-presidenting is hard!
Via Washington Times: Bill Clinton: ‘There’s one set of rules for us and another set for everybody else’
Former President Bill Clinton is defending the millions of dollars in foreign money that flowed into the Clinton Foundation and are creating issues for his wife’s 2016 presidential bid, telling NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden the charity has never done anything “knowingly inappropriate” and that his family gets held to a higher standard than others.
Mr. Clinton said the recent announcement that the foundation is only accepting donations from a handful of foreign governments going forward is “an acknowledgement that we’re going to come as close as we can during her presidential campaign to following the rules we followed when she became secretary of state.”
“There has never been anything like the Clinton Global Initiative,” he said, “where you’ve raised over $100 billion worth of stuff that helped 43 million people in 180 countries.”…
Hey, Billy-Jeff said the foundation has never done anything “knowingly inappropriate”, so there you go. Beat it! Nothing to see here. Anyway, who would dare challenge Billary?
“But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? ‘Charity begins at home,’ is the voice of the world;” – Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
I think Bubba Bill has a too literal translation of the above quote.
Charity begins in our homes. But it ends at Bubba’s house.
Wikip info re Sir Thomas Browne: …In 1646, Browne published his encyclopaedia, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenets, and commonly Presumed Truths, whose title refers to the prevalence of false beliefs and “vulgar errors”. A sceptical work that debunks a number of legends circulating at the time in a methodical and witty manner, it displays the Baconian side of Browne—the side that was unafraid of what at the time was still called “the new learning”. The book is significant in the history of science, because it promoted an awareness of up-to-date scientific journalism, it cast doubt, for example, on the widely believed hypothesis of spontaneous generation….
Let’s get the facts straight.
The correct statement is ‘Impeached But Not Convicted Former President’.
Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998. Two other impeachment articles, a second perjury charge and a charge of abuse of power, failed in the House. He was acquitted of both charges by the Senate on February 12, 1999.
The trial in the United States Senate began right after the seating of the 106th Congress, in which the Republicans began with 55 senators. A two-thirds vote (67 senators) was required to remove Clinton from office. Fifty senators voted to remove Clinton on the obstruction of justice charge and 45 voted to remove him on the perjury charge; no Democrat voted guilty on either charge.
posted 5/4 1211pm Texas[What Does ‘Is’ Mean?] Time
Please sir, can I have some more ?
( speak in British accent)
Oh, I’m sure they owe many debts: Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, etc…
We all got to pay our Bill.