The Clintons, the Bushes & Queen Anne | National Catholic Reporter

The Clintons, the Bushes & Queen Anne | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: On foundation finace, both the Clinton and Bush foundations are required to file a Form 990 and those forms are all published on The Foundation Center web page.  This is not dark money. As for Secretary Clinton's multi-thousand dollar speech, that is standard for presidential candidates. It is not for her to just support herself but to support the organizing of her campaign.  While Bill could write the checks to feed her on the campaign trail, doing so from what he earns from a 990 organization or his own speeches would be considered even more questionable.  This time, some distance from Bill is likely a good perception to create -as the appearance that this is a dodge on the 22nd amendment is already in the air. For the Bushes, we could have only wished that W. had followed in his father's footsteps on Iraq.



Any insinuation that raising big money somehow makes one crass in working to alleviate poverty is just plain silly. Even though Francis lives simply, the still presides over an organization with huge money, more bad 14th and 15th Century art than it can hang properly and bigger legal bills than the Clintons will ever have - as well as a huge funding stream from the organization that Secretary Clinton is competing to lead.  Because the money is probably to organize the campaign, the attack on it is sophomoric.  As far as the press corps, I am glad that public operation has not yet started - its too early and the issues of today will probably not be the issues of January 20th, 2017.



Anyone who has read the parts of Game Change having to do with the Clintons knows they can turn a bad day around quickly (but to do so they should hire George Stephenopolis back) and can turn certain victory into crushing defeat. There is no other reason, aside from his poltiics, that I have any hope for Senator Sanders.  She could lose, but not for the silly reasons MSW cites, especially about any nonsense about a sense of entitlement.  Recall that during the Lewinsky Affair, she claimed a lareg right wing conspiracy.  Turns out she was right, as the Paula Jones legal team was sharing information with the Speical Counsel - and they disbarred Bill in the end.  They should have also disbarred Starr, the Jones lawer and the House Managers, especially Hyde.



As for my royal cousin, Anne, she was actually the first test of whether the Glorious Revolution would work.  Its why everyone watched her. It did, as we saw for certain when a pariaimentary election essentially ended the British resolve to keep prosecuting the America insurrection (even though a few companies of regulars could have routed what was left of the Continental Army).  No one looks to Hillary's every move and the mainstream media knows about candidates earning a little pre-campaign money to live on and to set up the actual staff.  I am sure FoxNews will pick up the story (a lovely companion for MSW), but they may not because they know that MSNBC would go after every Republican candidates speaking fees and incomes in retaliation. Of course, with the NBA Finals and the NHL Finals coming up, as well as the time when most peole actually start paying attention to the MLB, no one will be looking at Hillary.