Hey…..

……..everyone who thought the Reps were going to be wiped out in November and as a break from Obama bashing, check out this old story on the Clintons, Marc Rich and the Oil for Food Scandal. If Hill were to get the nomination what do you suppose the Reps will do with this in the way of ads.

One of these men was Marc Rich.

The report said Marc Rich & Co. financed 4 million barrels of oil under a 9.5-million-barrel contract awarded to the European Oil and Trading Co., a French-based shell company.

“Surcharges were imposed on the oil,” the report said, and “Marc Rich & Co. directed BNP Paris not to disclose its identity to BNP NY in connection with its financing of the U.N. contract.”

What I would really like to know now — and I doubt anyone will ever ask or answer these questions — are three things:

1. What, exactly, is the relationship between Marc Rich and the Clintons – especially from 1997-2001?

2. Were the Clintons complicit in the founding of the corrupt oil-for-food program or did they just have their hands in the cookie jar like everyone else?

3. Why was the Clinton administration (presumably) completely unaware of the corruption… especially while considering Marc Rich’s pardon application?

Enquiring minds do want to know.

What is she doing even running?

Normal service will now resume.

John Podhoretz nails it.

Obama is often likened to Reagan, but the Obama movement promises something very different. In Michelle Obama’s words:

“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism, that you put down your division, that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better, and that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual – uninvolved, uninformed.”

A campaign that believes its role is to “require you to work,” and is partially based on the demand “that you push yourselves to be better,” really does have it backwards. It’s the president who is “required to work,” who needs to “push himself to be better.” His role is not to analyze and address the shortcomings of the voter and the voter’s spiritual, political and ideological weaknesses, which is what Obama’s remark the other day portends. His role is to represent the voter. This is a crucial distinction, and if Obama is unable to make it, he will not become the president.

What is he doing even running?

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