The Clintons, Mark Penn, Lobbyists, and Conflicting Interests.....some disturbing stuff

The Clintons, The High Priest and Conflicting Interests

While he was in China in the past summer to meet with potential clients, he allegedly met with individuals from the Turkish government. The meeting was about an upcoming bill in the U.S. House that would have called on President Bush to declare that the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks after World War I constituted genocide. The Turkish government was adamantly against the bill and had already hired multiple American lobbying groups to lobby the Congress against the bill. Following the meeting, he called his firm back in Washington DC to asked them to begin writing a preliminary proposal to pitch an offer to the Turkish government to lobby the Congress to kill the genocide bill. The name of his company was Burson-Marsteller - the 5th largest PR and lobbying firm on earth - and he was its worldwide president and CEO. His name is Mark Penn, and he is now serving as Hillary Clinton's top political strategist.

Senator Clinton is the only top tier candidate on the democratic side who openly receives money from lobbyists for her campaign. While many seem outraged about this fact, most people are not aware of the extent of influence and history of relationships and dealings between the Clintons and lobbyists, and the inevitability of their continued influence in policymaking should Hillary become president.







Read full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-sedaei/the-clintons-the-high-pr_b_77298.html

THE HEAD OF THE COMPANY THAT DEFENDED UNOIN CARBIDE


AND BLACKWATER

AND EXXON VALDIS

AND CHALABI

AND ARGENTINA FASCIST JUNTA

AND THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT

AND THE EL SALVADORIAN GOVERNMENT

AND THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT

AND SAUDI ARABIA ON SEPTEMBER 14 2001

AND THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE NAFTA

AND ROMANIAN DICTATOR NICOLAE CEAUCESCU

AND SOUTH KOREA South Korea (to avoid discussion of human rights issues during the 1988 Olympics)

AND THE UNITA - The US sponsored Angolan guerrilla army

AND BABCOCK AND WILCOX (for Three Mile Island nuclear accident)

when some political clients came to call. Not unusual.

And aren't they largely responsible for the pathetic government we have in place right now?

Why would we want to continue this? Or worse yet, expand it?

I want corporations, and THEIR LOBBYISTS OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT!

And that won't happen with Hillary in office.

Call 1000 people. You would be lucky if 5 knew any of the names

It's only the silly hystericals here that get their panties all wet, in a wad
and stuck up their asses over this stuff.

That's why I said Joe would care IF he knew. Most people don't have the time or inclination to look up this stuff ~ but they care once they find out.

Hillary's "lobbyists are people too" mentality is horrible for democracy ~ too bad you don't get it.

but hey , as you said to another poster "she doesn't want their votes anyway." It is very sad that some can't even recognize lobbyists for the danger they are.And you are surly the most vulgar of any of the posters om DU. Hillary must be proud!

the nasty slugs, beyond "vulgar" So.......:nopity:

lets the air out of their propaganda balloons.

Try to be more sensitive. (wink, wink);-)

Some Hillary posters do her no favors.

...everyday Joe is a fricking moron who is too enticed with
his shiny trinkets from Walmart, to notice that his government
is bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations!

The only way Hillary can win is if everyday Joe continues to
be the oblivious fuckball that he is.

Truly sad

Truly sad

I think many of the average people do care -- but they've seen so many sell-outs and compromises by the Beltway Elite that they've rolled up their arms and said "What the hell....They're all crooks."

It would sure be refreshing to see a candidate actually have the creds to make the public feel that there are politicians and a political party that is actually on their side.

Because the corporate whore media won't tell him. But if he did, he would be pissed off, and certainly would never vote for those who are part of the problem.

It is clear that campaign intends to bulldoze and win by any means necessary. Now is the time for Democrats to assert themselves and not be steam-rolled by the dynastic/corporate powers-that-be.

He was polling for Berlusconi, a noted creep and right wing corpratist. On election day, his exit poll was the only one that showed Berlusconi winning. How convenient! Berlusconi then tried to challenge the election but got no where since there were several other polls that showed just the opposite.

Question: "Mrs. Clinton, why do you have a chief pollster who tried to facilitate the return to power of a right wing fascist in Italy just over a year ago?"

This guy gives "hired guns" a bad name.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/06/lobbyists.democrats/index.html

At long last we'll have someone to represent Monsanto in the White House! /snark