2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary's being swift-boated because she's advocated for "micro-finance" since 1983 -- the opposite
of big banking.
One of the (less than 1% of) Clinton Foundation donors she has met with or called was the Nobel-prize winning economist who first developed the concept.
The AP featured her meetings with him as a sign of something shady going on, even though she's been talking and working with him since 1983. His being a Clinton foundation donor had nothing to do with his access to her.
But his promotion of a concept that threatened big banks' lock on the market certainly has something to do with Hillary herself being targeted. She's being swift boated. A strength of hers is being turned into the opposite . . . and the AP and most of the media is playing along.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/08/24/how-the-ap-spun-the-story-about-the-clinton-foundation/#.V72vJUbthsT.facebook
But here is where the AP blew their story. In an attempt to provide an example of how this becomes an optics problem for Hillary Clinton, they focused much of the article on the fact that she met several times with Muhammad Yunus, a Clinton Foundation donor. In case you dont recognize that name, he is an economist from Bangladesh who pioneered the concepts of microcredit and microfinance as a way to fight poverty, and founded Grameen Bank. For those efforts, Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.
The connection the AP tries to make is that SoS Clinton met with Yunus because he was a Clinton Foundation donor. What they didnt mention is that their relationship goes back over 30 years to the time Hillary (as first lady of Arkansas) heard about his work and brought him to her state to explore the possibility of implementing microfinance programs to assist the poor.
During the time that Clinton was Secretary of State, the government of Bangladesh was trying to discredit Yunus and remove him from leadership at Grameen Bank due to the fact that he was seen as a political threat. In case you think Clintons engagement on that presents and optics problem, consider this press release from then-Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)"Some" people might claim that positions like this are ones that she only adopted this year, because it's easier to dismiss her prior experience due to current ignorant prejudice than it is to acknowledge her years of hard work and be forced to offer her even a modicum of respect.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)The cries of those lies were deafening..
"she's advocated for "micro-finance" since 1983 "
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Pretty sad when a person (like those who assassinate HRC's character) could be considered "pro-poverty".
Hillary is very good at bringing those types out of the shadows. They hate that about her, as well.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)(about micro finance, of course. Women's rights, too. Notice Assange doesn't leak those.)
book_worm
(15,951 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)every time Judicial Watch exposes another batch of nothingburger emails.
This is why Hillary tried to get them ALL released more than a year ago.