The Clintons haven't necessarily lost their minds. They are corporatists.Always have been.

[Demeter]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_obiterdi_080424_the_clintons_haven_t.htm




They have just perfected the art of pretending they aren't. Bill and Hillary are not emotionally damaged, they are just out of the closet. The Clintons' corporate connections go way back. Hillary's connections to Wal-Mart and Bill's to Tyson, for just two examples, go back to Arkansas. The Clintons' chief skill, honed throughout their adult lives, is best described as talking the progressive talk while they work hard for their corporate friends. For just one example, while the two of them were posturing as populists and feeling our pain, here are a few of the Clinton administration's handouts to Monsanto:

1. Michael Taylor was appointed FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Policy, a role created to expedite the approval process of genetically engineered foods. Prior to his appointment, Taylor was an attorney for Monsanto. Taylor authored more than a dozen articles critical of the Delaney Clause, a federal law passed in 1958 prohibiting the introduction of known carcinogens to processed foods. The Delaney Clause had long been opposed by Monsanto and other chemical and pesticide companies. When Taylor rejoined the federal government, he continued to argue that Delaney should be overturned. This was finally done when President Clinton signed the so-called Food Quality Protection Act on the eve of the 1996 elections. Taylor went on to become Monsanto’s Vice-President.

1. Rufus Yerxa was nominated as U.S. deputy to the World Trade Organization. Prior to his appointment as one of the most powerful bureaucrats in the world regarding international trade policies, Yerxa was Monsanto’s Chief Counsel.

1. Michael Kantor was appointed U.S. Secretary of Commerce. At that time, Kantor was also on the Board of Directors of Monsanto. In 1997 Kantor left his duties as Secretary of Commerce to join Mayer, Brown & Platt, a law firm that watches out for Monsanto's interests in matters of international trade, food safety, and product labeling. Prior to Kantor's arrival at the firm in 1997, one of Mayer, Brown & Platt's top lobbyists was William Daley. Daley was tapped by Bill Clinton to fill Kantor's spot in the cabinet as Secretary of Commerce. In that capacity, he has led the charge for Monsanto on several continents.

CITATIONS AND LINKS AND MUCH MORE AT LINK

We need to face the fact that the Clintons, like Lockheed-Martin, never forget who they work for. It ain't us.

Crossposted from Daily Kos

[ccharles000]

1. The Clinton's are kind people.

I will always adore them.:hug:

[DogPoundPup]

5. Here's something you should take a look at ...

"the Clintons turned Pennsylvania into a microcosm of what they think the general election will be in November.

And the Clintons are running as the Rove Republicans. If they fail to destroy Barack Obama as effectively as Karl Rove -- George W. Bush's master of the dark arts -- destroyed Al Gore and John Kerry in 2000 and 2004, with tactics just as brutal but even more personal, then they will have driven American politics to a critical point. They will have shown that the paradigm that has reigned in US politics for at least two decades has been shattered.

That's what is being tested this week. It may be the most important vote in America until the final one, in November.

Obama has been pummelled by a Democrat in ways never witnessed in a primary campaign.

Hillary Clinton has argued he is less qualified to be commander-in-chief than the Republican nominee, John McCain. She has said she doesn't know for sure he is not a secret Muslim. She has said his choice of church is unacceptable to her. She has said he deliberately wants many Americans to continue scraping by without health insurance.

Her campaign has insinuated he was once a drug dealer. The Clintons have publicly associated Obama with domestic terrorist William Ayers, with the militant Palestinian group Hamas and with anti-semitic demagogue Louis Farrakhan.

And what is remarkable about all this is most of it was not done by surrogates, but by her husband -- a former president against a senator in his own party -- and directly by Clinton herself."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23570034-26397,00.html

[Demeter]

6. Good Find! Another Foreign Press Jewel Americans Will Never See

[juno jones]

2. 'Washington Babylon'

has a chapter on Clinton. It mentions Jackson Stevens and Tyson and the lumber companies and everyone he allowed to run roughshod over Arkansas and it's enviroment.

The eighties and nineties were pretty damn sordid, no matter what people remember from the fuzzy mists of the present.

[aquart]

3. Oh, have the guts to say fascist and take the response.

Not that there will be any from the Obama suckups. (And the less said the better on what they're sucking up.)

[bluesmail]

4. K&R for exposing the duality of the couple.

was I ever took by them.

[lisa58]

7. They may not have lost their minds, but they've lost me

[Joanne98]

8. Yep