Reply #56: Hillary could have prevented it, journalists started digging in direct response to [View All]

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Hillary's words and actions( such as the use of racist rhetoric to try to win at any cost when the math demonstrated she had nothing to gain for doing so. Her campaign actions are a direct cause of the hightened interest in who these people really are. Here's an example

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43/029.html


What one newspaper is saying about this subject http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Hillary39s-woes-take-their-toll.4071541.jp

But the battering his wife has taken in her losing battle with Barack Obama has threatened to change all that, with the 'brand' now under fire and the Clintons accused of using their good works as cover for making money and peddling influence.

It began in January with Bill's decision to wade in and help a campaign stunned by the unexpected phenomenon of Barackomania.

Breaking with the custom that former presidents do not take sides in nomination contests, Bill not only sided with his wife, but went into battle for her.

The plan backfired in spectacular fashion when he labeled Obama's opposition to the Iraq war as a "fairy tale".

And when he appeared to label Obama's appeal as limited to black voters only, the media christened him the campaign's "attack dog".

This image was reinforced by the sight of him staging angry confrontations with journalists. And then those journalists started to dig.

Already in 2007, the media had zeroed in on one of his top backers, data collection firm Info USA. The media reported that its chairman, Vin Gupta, is being sued by his shareholders for misspending company money after he paid Bill Clinton the equivalent of £400,000 for two years of unspecified consultancy work.

In January, the Wall Street Journal questioned another Bill Clinton consultancy contract, with US supermarket giant Yucaipa, claiming by being employed as a consultant Bill stood to make a £10m profit on his five-year association.