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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May-18-09 11:38 PM
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Bill Clinton to Become Special Haiti EnvoyUpdated at 11:57 AM
Source: New York Times

May 18, 2009, 6:58 pm
Bill Clinton to Become Special Haiti Envoy
By Kate Phillips

Add another country to the former president’s future travels.

The United Nations, according to news reports, plans to announce on Tuesday that former President Bill Clinton will become a special envoy to Haiti, which has been ravaged by a series of storms and hurricanes that left nearly 1,000 dead.

Mr. Clinton visited the nation along with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a few months ago, and he appealed at a donors conference here for contributions to help with disaster aid as well as investment aid.

While the former president’s actions are independent of his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, she, too, visited Haiti briefly in mid-April to call attention to the nation’s plight and to pledge rebuilding aid.

In a statement he gave to The Miami Herald, he said he would be employing the Clinton Global Initiative, his far-ranging philanthropic effort, to try to help Haiti rebuild.


Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/bill-clin...
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   I'm certain that Bill will be more than happy with those Haitian girls.. n/t  LakeSamish706   May-18-09 11:41 PM   #1 
   Very funny...........  Beacool   May-19-09 12:50 AM   #3 
   Haiti really needs to attention this will bring. Go Big Dog!  McCamy Taylor   May-19-09 12:01 AM   #2 
   This was my thinking exactly! K+R, n/t  ColbertWatcher   May-19-09 06:38 AM   #5 
   who said irony is dead? n/t  PaulaFarrell   May-19-09 02:01 AM   #4 
   Yah. What could be more fitting? nt  bemildred   May-19-09 08:47 AM   #7 
   Deleted message  Name removed   May-19-09 07:01 AM   #6 
      the voters knew what?  La Lioness Priyanka   May-19-09 09:44 AM   #8 
      Read the op better - this is NOT Obama doing anything  karynnj   May-19-09 09:45 AM   #9 
      I'd vote for Obama again to get Bushes/Clintons out of the WH, and to slow down the fascist agenda  blm   May-19-09 01:05 PM   #10 
 
LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May-18-09 11:41 PM
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1. I'm certain that Bill will be more than happy with those Haitian girls.. n/t
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-19-09 12:50 AM
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3. Very funny...........
Not!!!

:eyes:

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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-19-09 12:01 AM
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2. Haiti really needs to attention this will bring. Go Big Dog!Updated at 5:25 PM
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-19-09 06:38 AM
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5. This was my thinking exactly! K+R, n/t
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4. who said irony is dead? n/t
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7. Yah. What could be more fitting? nt
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-19-09 09:44 AM
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8. the voters knew what?
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-19-09 09:45 AM
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9. Read the op better - this is NOT Obama doing anything
Edited on Tue May-19-09 09:47 AM by karynnj
If true, this is the UN appointing Bill Clinton. I actually think this is unlikely because I really can't see Bill Clinton taking something like this on for the UN. (For the US as a special envoy, with the power of the US behind him - maybe - but I really doubt it with the UN.) It would also likely have to be seen not to conflict with the SoS's job.

I also think Clinton's approval rating disproves your contention - and I was one who really really did not want a return of the Clintons.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-19-09 01:05 PM
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10. I'd vote for Obama again to get Bushes/Clintons out of the WH, and to slow down the fascist agenda
Edited on Tue May-19-09 01:05 PM by blm
that the GOP loyalists have been protecting the last 4 decades.

Or did you forget that part?
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