Obama, Wal-Mart and hypocrisy

after his little slap at Clinton for serving on Wal-Mart's Board years ago and for being a "corporate attorney", it occurred to me that he may have just made a strategic error. So, after wracking my poor tired brain, I remembered this:

Michelle Obama leaves TreeHouse board

...

TreeHouse’s largest customer is retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and the company paid $26.2 million in total compensation in 2005 to then-CEO Sam K. Reed. Both have drawn media and political note, given Sen. Obama’s criticism of Wal-Mart and corporate pay practices.

Ms. Obama was paid about $50,000 a year to be on the TreeHouse board, plus stock options.

...

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=25090&seenIt=1

the article is from May of 2007. Mrs. Clinton left Wal-Mart's Board in 1992.

how vaguely familiar sounding....almost like I heard this song 15 years ago somehow.

Treehouse is an American food company; Walmart sells $15 billion worth of Chinese goods a year.

so, in essence, Wal-Mart could be said to have been paying Michelle Obama $50,000 a year plus stock options

Damn I need to go to Walmart so I can get a list of every supplier that we need to condemn.

Walmart sells practically everything!

Geez Louise!

perhaps conveniently forgetting his wife snagged a cool $50,000 a year (plus stock) with a company that does the majority of their business with them. If Hillary sitting on Wal-Mart's board 16 years ago is an issue the Michelle leaving the Board of a Corporation just last May that does tons of business with Wal-Mart is as well.

Bill Clinton's repeal of New Deal legislation that regulated the banking industry can be linked directly to today's foreclosure crisis. More of the same is what we definitely do NOT need:

When Franklin Roosevelt took office, both the President and Congress knew the banking crisis demanded immediate action. The result was one of the crown jewels of the New Deal: the Glass-Steagall Act, officially known as the Banking Act of 1933. Glass made sure the bill forbid banks from getting into the investment business. In addition, the bill established the Federal Deposit Insurance Company, which protects our bank deposits...

The repeal of one of the most important pieces of legislation in this nation's history came about as a result of another Clinton "triangulation," the wobbling attempt to find the middle of the road that has somehow managed to pass for a philosophy with many Democrats for over two decades. As former Clinton former campaign Richard Morris once described it, you move a little to the left, a little to the right. I'd love to hear Clinton give that explanation to a foreclosed home owner today.

With the stroke of a pen, Bill Clinton ended an era that stretched back to William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson and reached fruition with FDR and Harry Truman. As he signed his name, in the whorls and dots of his pen strokes William Jefferson Clinton was also symbolically signing the death warrant of Liberal America and its core belief in the level playing field that had guided the Democratic Party. But it was the gift of the pen to Sanford Weill and its assuming an honored place on the Wall of Me that rubbed salt in the wound.

http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2007/11/bill-clintons-role-in-mortgage-crisis.html

Now tell me that Michelle's company was abusive to their employees and I will take another look.

What are they supposed to do? Say they won't sell to Walmart until Walmart changes their practices?

You think a supplier to Walmart has similar power to a member of the board of Walmart? How looney tunes is that?

This is so clueless I don't know what to say.

Hillary had with a company 16 years ago without first revealing his wife had been making -- as of 9 months ago -- $50,000 from a company whose main retailer is Wal-Mart.

won't survive. I remember reading about several manufacturers that hate Wal-Mart and hate supplying Wal-Mart, but they would go under if they didn't because Wal-Mart is the only retailer in some areas.

Look at what happened to them when the asked for a slight price increase from Wal-Mart. They no longer exist. They learned the hard way about crossing Wal-Mart.

in essence, your OP is BS

pay for Obama's Tony Rezko house. He opened the Wal-Mart door so expect people to step through it.

Were standin' wit da Clintons on diss one..fugeddaboutit!



Jersey's In Da' Bag !

Right you are, Magic Rat.




Da Clintons ? Yeah, I been wit dem

He goes on trial Feb 25th and Obama's listed as "political candidate" in the Patrick Fitzgerald's (of Scooter Libby fame) prosecution papers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-lewis/obama-the-slumlord-_b_82599.html

In just four weeks time, on February 25th, Tony Rezko goes on trial facing federal charges of major corruption. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on Saturday that Barack Obama has just been identified by a source as the unnamed "political candidate" referred to in a document that outlines the case against Rezko.

Obama is NOT accused of any crime. It is his friend and political patron for the last 18 years -- who has contributed nearly $170,000 to Obama's campaigns -- who is accused of attempted extortion, money laundering, and fraud.

The loathsome GOP Oppo Research teams and hatchet men who "unleashed hell on Al Gore" and who stoked the Swift Boat smears on John Kerry are digging far deeper into this story as you read these words...

In fact, Sam Walton was going around the country seeking small businesses for "made in america" products at the time. One of the best times in Wal-mart history, in fact. Obama doesn't know what he is talking about, truly; and MSM gives him a pass on this.

duh? - But this is the same logic that lets hillary infer she was part of everything great in Bill Clinton's Presidency... but deflect everything bad...

in most of the new stores to help save energy AND she pushed hard for more women to be given management positions

No? And how many of these "green stores" were built. I only read about one.

When was this, when she gave birth to Chelsea?

in fact?
Most Favored Nation status for post Tianenman Square China?
Trade benefits for the country providing that sweet slave labor for
Prescott Bush's friends?
in fact.
in deed.

Will definitely come back to bite him.

for whom?
Try to run on Wal-Mart's record.
SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO.

Nuff said.

Hypocrisy anybody?

Last time I check Michelle hasn't been blatantly lying about Hillary.

from Walmart's parent, benefited the Obama family. Pot, meet kettle.

I guess they are complicit for Walmart's awful employment practices?

rather than working hard to make a living there.

ties to the world's largest retailer.

the corporate attorney calling the corporate attorney.... black?
obama is slick packaging, a hybrid of MLK and Atticus Finch. In reality he holds the "true change and progressive agenda" flag but there's nothing he can do with it. And what experience? He isn't fit to be a Governor, lol... give him another 10 years and I'll look at him. But for now, in today's world... Hillary is much better.

Hillary was terrible last night.
Accept it.
Move on.

is that being intellectually honest?
Is it that important that you try?
Is it more significant that the "top tier"
had "relations" with Uncle Sam, or
DOESNT IT MATTER WHAT THEYVE DONE TO STOP THIS ILLEGAL WAR?