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All Politicians Sell Access. Why is the Clinton Foundation Different?

<p>Yes it&&num;8217&semi;s true&period; All politicians give special access to their donors&period; Its an age old custom&comma; and why not&quest; If someone shares your political philosophies and you have common goals&comma; then why not accept their monetary support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Contributors often become advisors and strategist&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s logical for Planned Parenthood to support Democrats who support abortion&period; Its logical for a businessman to support a conservative politician who supports lower business taxes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And yes&comma; its true&comma; and always has been&comma; that these contributors have more access and influence than the common man&period; It is true polticians are often beholden to their contributors&comma; and it is impossible for them not to be influenced&comma; and this easily develops into a corruption of the ideals and perhaps even the corruption of the politician himself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr&period; Robert Cialdini&comma; a former professor at the University of Arizona and perhaps the foremost expert on &&num;8220&semi;influence&&num;8221&semi; describes a principle of &&num;8220&semi;reciprocity&period;&&num;8221&semi; To paraphrase&comma; if I give you something&comma; you feel an obligation to return the favor&period; It is an exceeding powerful principle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Politics is a game of influence&comma; and the rich and powerful will always give support in exchange for favors&period; The Clintons are no different&comma; their contributors often become their advisors&period; So what is the problem&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The problem with the Clinton Foundation is that it has institutionalized this process&comma; bypassing all campaign and lobbying safeguards and peddling influence to anyone who wants to pay through an outside organization&period; And they are doing this on a massive scale&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Clintons have solicited multi-million dollar donations&period; Instead of contributors who agree with the Clintons in pro-American philosophies&comma; they accept massive contributions from those whose interests are contrary to American interests&comma; who might very well be on the opposite side of the negotiating table or perhaps the opposite side of a war&comma; or even the recipient of U&period;S&period; government support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For example&comma; Saudi Arabia has given somewhere between &dollar;10 million and &dollar;25 million to the Clinton Foundation&period; Kuwait&comma; Oman and Qatar also contributed&period; The issues of terrorism and oil are huge in America&comma; should this contribution allow our Saudi &&num;8220&semi;friends&&num;8221&semi; to have more access or sympathy with our Secretary of State&quest; Did it influence Clinton in such topics as the Keystone Pipeline&comma; regulations on shale oil&comma; immigration of Muslims&comma; or military support for Saudi&&num;8217&semi;s various conflicts&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And of course there is the much cited circumstance where Russian Banking interests hired Bill Clinton &lpar;through the Clinton Foundation&rpar; for a speech for &dollar;500&comma;000&comma; just after they announced their intention to take over a Canadian company that owned strategic uranium mining interests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the documentary &&num;8220&semi;Clinton Cash&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Gilbert Chagoury&comma; a Nigerian Billionaire has committed a billion dollars to the Clinton Foundation&period; Bill Clinton also received over &dollar;1&period;4 million to give speeches in Nigeria&period; As Secretart of State&comma; Hillary Clinton approved hundreds of millions in foreign aide to Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Remember only 10&percnt; of the Clinton Foundations funds have gone into actual charity services&period; They are like any other bloated and ineffective charity&comma; most of the money goes to support the non-charity infrustructure&period; Chelsea Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s salary&comma; if I remember correctly&comma; is &dollar;900&comma;000 per year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So If you want access to the Clintons&comma; no matter &nbsp&semi;you can donate substantial sums to the Clinton Foundation and become an insider&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And now the Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s owe you one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> This is a new and devastating form of political corruption on a scale never before experienced&period; And its happening right in front of our eyes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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