HRC Colombia ties don't stop with Penn

[RamboLiberal]

Mark Penn isn’t the only Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter on the wrong side of the Colombia trade agreement.

The Democratic-leaning advocacy firm the Glover Park Group, former home to Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson, signed a $40,000 per month contract with the government of Colombia in April of 2007 to promote the very agreement that Clinton now rails against on the presidential campaign trail.

That means Glover Park Group was arguing the same position on the free trade agreement as has Penn, the contentious Clinton strategist and Burson-Marsteller chief executive who lost his campaign job over the weekend after The Wall Street Journal revealed that he’d met with Colombian officials to plot strategy on the pact.

Several other Glover Park employees have deep connections with the Clintons, including founding partner Joe Lockhart, who served as the White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, and Joel Johnson, who was a senior communications adviser in the Clinton White House.

Six employees of Glover Park Group contributed a total of nearly $20,000 to Clinton’s campaign in 2007, according to data kept by the Center for Responsive Politics.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9433.html

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[blm]

1. Clinton lovers will pretend till the cows come home that HRC didn't KNOW this and she 'really' is

against this trade deal.

She's only AGAINST this trade deal because Super Tuesday didn't turn out as she planned, and now she's 'stuck' pitching woo with trade unions and putting up progay positions she NEVER would have done if the primary race was over by Feb 5th, according to their plan of the last 8 years.

[Boz]

10. Um Bill Clinton, I know she can say she hasn't talked to him since Monica but um

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Ruh Roh!!!!!!

hillary is really in deep shit now!!!

:nopity:

[ProSense]

3. Just like the port deal

Initially, the question seemed like a bump that could be handled with a few calls to the senator. Instead, it snowballed into a political disaster, one that has become a paradigm of failed crisis prevention here. It has also spawned bizarre alliances, putting President Bush on the same side as two former members of Bill Clinton's cabinet and at least briefly pitting former Senator Bob Dole against his wife, Senator Elizabeth Dole, Republican of North Carolina.

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Lawyers and lobbyists at Alston & Bird, the big law firm based in Atlanta, put together the commercial deal for Dubai Ports, quietly helping win approval from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States of the $6.8 billion acquisition of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the British company that has contracts to manage several United States ports.

No one, it appears, mapped a strategy to break the news to Congress that the country where two Sept. 11 attackers were born would be running ports here, an obvious thicket, even if it posed no real security risk.

<...>

At another point, Ms. Browner contacted Joe Lockhart, a press secretary for President Bill Clinton, about taking up the Dubai Ports cause. That arrangement would have added an even more unusual alliance. But Mr. Lockhart said he declined.

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[KittyWampus]

4. man, the truth keeps popping up in the Clinton campaign's face

[DJ13]

5. Im sure glad Clinton isnt a free trader

Im might get worried that everyone she surrounds herself with that are free traders might influence her or something.

I still say Penn went to Columbia not just to work on the trade deal, but also to whisper reassurances that despite her anti-free trade rhetoric she's campaigning on to win the Pennsylvania primary she has no intentions actually trying to defeat it when it comes up for a vote in the Senate.

Kinda the same thing her campaign did with Canada over the NAFTA treaty before the Ohio primary.

[Lucky 13]

6. Well... well... well...

Fully vetted my ass. These people are scandal machines. There is an endless supply of lies, misdeeds and conflicts of interests for Obama, McCain, and whoever she tries to run against in 2016 to use against her.

Obama's exactly right. She can run for as long as she wants to. This isn't hurting him. It's hurting her. The longer she's under the microscope the more closely we see her flaws and the more he looks squeaky clean in comparison. What's more, this is only helping his fundraising.

Right now he's flying under the radar. She's saying and doing stupid shit faster than the media can report on it. John McCain pops up in there every now and then, equating Purim to Halloween or saying Iran supports Al-Qaeda or nodding off while someone is talking. All Barack has to do is keep his mouth shut while these two commit professional suicide in front of a national audience.

[crankychatter]

7. Her public assurances should alleviate ALL concerns

She said it

I believe it

and THAT settles it

don't bother me with the facts... can't you see I'm in a life and death struggle with Obama cultists?

[Texas Hill Country]

8. well, that is disappointing.

[crankychatter]

9. Have you noticed how more and more the MSM relies on Bloggers?

They really are lazy fucks.

Still, I'm happy to read something online one week, then see it Cable the following week.

I hope this trend continues.

[azmouse]

11. K&R