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Here an F.O.B., There an F.O.B.

Since leaving office, Bill's gotten by with a little help from his friends. Now he's re-examining his circle.

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | NEWSWEEK

Feb 4, 2008 Issue

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Posted By: Ramvad @ 04/16/2008 7:40:07 AM

Comment: It is the reality of life that people who take up Govt. offices ( elected to do so) do so after a long and at times ardous road. They do have to make sacrifices in their respective Jobs/profession to reach that office. This can be translated to financial gain/loss etc. But, after leaving their office they should be left alone to persue their life ( like an aging and out of actor) ...After all they did play a part in making history ...( irrespective whether it is good or bad for the world) .. and so their version of events is what many will pay to hear ...Or may be it is like a Medal on your jacket.. to have an ex- president to address an event or be at the dinner etc...whatever ! They have the full right to be free to associate with whomever they wish..... this may include old enemies when he or she was in office.....Money is great attraction .. specially when you have rubbbed shoulders with the Mega rich when in office and living on Govt. Salary and expenses...There is no reason why he or she should be denied the opportunity to earn money and maintain their status....
Regards to all.
Posted By: Gallatinone @ 03/04/2008 2:01:44 AM

Comment: Senator Jon Testors and Senator Max Baucus' schedules, full of appointments with Matt's daddy and all of his friends including President of NY Life Insurane Sy Stenberg of New York. Flying all the way to the Big Sky State of Montana to meet with McKenna.
ALso, a company in McKenna's slum home town of Butte, Montana is a company named MSE. In 2000 MSE was found guilty by the Justice Department of "money laundering" and campaign fraud. McKenna, Baucus, Testor, and people from MSE who are now suddenly NY Life Agents all meeting in Montana. MSE is and has always been funded by federal money: pork and earmarks. FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD
Posted By: Gallatinone @ 03/04/2008 1:54:24 AM

Comment: Hillary's new claim regarding "Homeland Security" is pretty funny. Bill's new campaign spokesman is Matt McKenna. McKenna's mom and dad suddenly have numerous positions with the government:

Daddy McKenna:
New York Life Insurance Agent (full time/mentoring 3 agents)
Federal Security Director of Montana (insurance agent to Homeland Security)
Appointed Gallatin County Airport Authority (not advertised to public: 2 ayes 1 nay)
RAF (Charity/Nonprofit): Acquiring land for his private CHARITY for the sake of pilots. Publiicly seeking donations of property, money, life insurance policies, anything of value. Recently obtained property from an "elderly couple" who bequeathed their property to him for his RAF (Recreational Aviation Foundation). Read the bylaws! WOW...
Owns his own airport. Mc Kenna Airport Montana
Delinquint on his property taxes in Montana where he owns millions of dollars worth of property.
Matt worked on Governor Schweitzer's campaign and Senator Jon Testor's campaign.

Matt followed Conrad Burns around with a camera for weeks, accusing burns of corruption because of his connections to Abramoff. Yet, Testors campaign has been linked to Hsu...

Matt's mommy is also a full time NY Life Agent.
She was rewarded by Governor Schweitzer for Matt's nasty camera work, with an appointment to the DOT Aeronautical Division. (What a joke). But this will assist daddy McKenna with his Charity/Non-profit RAF in its effort to acquire property, and grants. He's already acquired the Wolfe Grant.

Sister McKenna who happens to have just graduated from college two years ago has already recieved the PRESTIGIOUS NY LIFE LIFETIME AWARD for sales in Montana. Wow, only like 26 years old too! Recently appointed to the ???Board??? of Big Brothers and Sisters??? just like MOMMY. I doubt she has ever wiped a kid???s nose in her life.
Posted By: Gallatinone @ 03/04/2008 1:53:38 AM

Comment: Hillary's new claim regarding "Homeland Security" is pretty funny. Bill's new campaign spokesman is Matt McKenna. McKenna's mom and dad suddenly have numerous positions with the government:

Daddy McKenna:
New York Life Insurance Agent (full time/mentoring 3 agents)
Federal Security Director of Montana (insurance agent to Homeland Security)
Appointed Gallatin County Airport Authority (not advertised to public: 2 ayes 1 nay)
RAF (Charity/Nonprofit): Acquiring land for his private CHARITY for the sake of pilots. Publiicly seeking donations of property, money, life insurance policies, anything of value. Recently obtained property from an "elderly couple" who bequeathed their property to him for his RAF (Recreational Aviation Foundation). Read the bylaws! WOW...
Owns his own airport. Mc Kenna Airport Montana
Delinquint on his property taxes in Montana where he owns millions of dollars worth of property.
Matt worked on Governor Schweitzer's campaign and Senator Jon Testor's campaign.

Matt followed Conrad Burns around with a camera for weeks, accusing burns of corruption because of his connections to Abramoff. Yet, Testors campaign has been linked to Hsu...

Matt's mommy is also a full time NY Life Agent.
She was rewarded by Governor Schweitzer for Matt's nasty camera work, with an appointment to the DOT Aeronautical Division. (What a joke). But this will assist daddy McKenna with his Charity/Non-profit RAF in its effort to acquire property, and grants. He's already acquired the Wolfe Grant.

Sister McKenna who happens to have just graduated from college two years ago has already recieved the PRESTIGIOUS NY LIFE LIFETIME AWARD for sales in Montana. Wow, only like 26 years old too! Recently appointed to the ???Board??? of Big Brothers and Sisters??? just like MOMMY. I doubt she has ever wiped a kid???s nose in her life.
Posted By: Gingerivers @ 02/09/2008 9:44:56 AM

Comment: This issue of Newsweek is the biggest piece of hype masquerading as journalism that Newsweek may have to date produced. It is clearly an organized endorsement of Obama over Clinton, the only thing the magazine didn't do was to come out and clearly state the same. The negatives that can be inferred about the Clintons are implicit, while Obama is clearly given a pass even when his position on issues is questioned. Magazines, like Newsweek, that have the money and power to reach the public enmass clearly understand the effect they can and do have on the development of public opinion and use it to levitate their positions. There was little attempt to portray the Clintons in an objective light hence one can only conclude that objectivity is not a hallmark of your magazine.

I have supported most positions Obama takes and will probably cast my vote for him as President. Though I am not a Clinton fan, when I see a magazine take a position that is as biased as the political articles in this issue are it makes me sad. The public trust is not served well by such antics and I do not want to participate further in supporting a magazine that undermines it. Please cancel my subscription.

Ginger Bush
Posted By: Carthage @ 01/31/2008 1:57:36 PM

Comment: and that 31 MILLION $ for the "Clinton Library" came after just catching a ride on a buddy's plane? Acting against stated State Dep. policies?? Please, send these people off to where they belong....
Posted By: alankent64 @ 01/30/2008 1:44:14 PM

Comment: for those of you supporting hill and bill i woulsd like to point out that there ONLY INTERESTS are in making the rich richer ....why do ya think bill deregulated the banks in his first term?????? why is hillary such a darling of the newyork elite ....wake up they are helping destroy what is left of america for a few rich friends ...
Posted By: alankent64 @ 01/30/2008 1:41:09 PM

Comment: it was bill clinton and his wife hillary who deregulaTED THE BANKS in the 90's for hillarys easty trust fund friends she went to school with whos familys are all in the banking business he had to or they wouldn't back his second bid perot split the red vote thats the only reason he got in .....look for more screw the common man policys if hillary gets in-- commander in crooks those two are ....screw the eastcoast banking elite burn the rich.....
Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/30/2008 3:41:35 AM

Comment: IT is OBVIOUS that the DEMCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT KNOWs THAT OBAMA is the CANDIDATE with the BEST CHANCE to win in NOVEMBER. EVERY statistic and poll supports this fact The DEMOCRATIC party cannot risk losing the WHITE HOUSE. The only obstacle standing in OBAMA's way is the LATINO VOTE.

THE CLINTON"S ARE JUST TO polarizing. Too many scandals, to many investigations. I do not believe they are guilty in all those scandals I just believe AMERICA needs a change from the establishment. We do not need a years worth of divisive campaigning. IT would be amazing to see McCain vs OBAMA. A GOOD CLEAN HEAVY WEIGHT FIGHT. NO ONE GETS THEIR EAR BIT OFF. A ROMNEY CAMpaign would be just like BUSH'S very divisive and full of lies. IF AMERICA CHOOSES THESE TWO CANDIDATES to represent their respective parties then I think the AMERICAN political process can begin to heal and set an example to the rest of the world. WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE ARE WE SENDING IRAQIS and AFGHANS. IF we promote racial divide why shoud they give us the benefit of the doubt concerning ABU GRADE and BLACK WATER. ARE WE REALLY RACIST CAN IT BE THAT THE CLINTON"S ARE A REFLECTION OF OUR SOCIETY. DIVIDE people so we the CLINTON'S can attain the power we are entitled too and so rightfully deserve after my conduct in the OVAL OFFICE. No one else is capable of being president. I will become nasty and play the race card because the "MEDIA" is trying to take away the presidency from me and my wife.

OBAMA HAS TO GAIN GROUND WITH THE LATINO VOTE. HE NEEDS TO BLITZ THE LATINO"S WITH COMMERCIALS OF ECONOMIC prosperity.
Posted By: fighting to keep our freedom @ 01/30/2008 2:09:04 AM

Comment: Why isn't anyone bringing up following the drug money trail to Euorpe that Clinton was behine?
Vince Foster and all the rest the fell by the wayside. It looked like to me when Clinton was in office
the whole White House was terrifed of him.
Who would want this sleeze ball to occupy the hallowed grounds of the White House.?
Posted By: dpclark @ 01/29/2008 9:02:18 PM

Comment: Wasn't eight years of these people enough? Does'nt anyone remember Mena, AR - Whitewater - Monica - Missle technology to China and on and on. There's toooooooooo much baggage that's attached to Billery. By the way, what qualifications does Hillery have?she ever run a company, met a payroll? Has she been a mayor, a governor, a company CEO, a CFO??? NO she hasn't. She does know how to expand big government, increase your taxes and whittle away at our ever decreasing freedoms. Electing her would be electing Bill again and if that happens, God help us all.
- Posted By: Carthage @ 01/31/2008 14:00:27
  
  Comment: Agree! Don't let the circus back in town! Enough already... HRC's "experience" included a vote for a WAR without reading the 95-page NIE (while knowing no staffer had access to it) I bet she did read the polls that day... Experience?!
Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/29/2008 8:43:11 PM

Comment: THE CLINTON"S ARE JUST TO polarizing. Too many scandals, to many investigations. I do not believe they are guilty in all those scandals I just believe AMERICA needs a change from the establishment. We do not need a years worth of divisive campaigning. IT would be amazing to see McCain vs OBAMA. A GOOD CLEAN HEAVY WEIGHT FIGHT. NO ONE GETS THEIR EAR BIT OFF. A ROMNEY CAMpaign would be just like BUSH'S very divisive and full of lies. IF AMERICA CHOOSES THESE TWO CANDIDATES to represent their respective parties then I think the AMERICAN political process can begin to heal and set an example to the rest of the world. WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE ARE WE SENDING IRAQIS and AFGHANS. IF we promote racial divide why shoud they give us the benefit of the doubt concerning ABU GRADE and BLACK WATER. ARE WE REALLY RACIST CAN IT BE THAT THE CLINTON"S ARE A REFLECTION OF OUR SOCIETY. DIVIDE people so we the CLINTON'S can attain the power we are entitled too and so rightfully deserve after my conduct in the OVAL OFFICE. No one else is capable of being president. I will become nasty and play the race card because the "MEDIA" is trying to take away the presidency from me and my wife.

OBAMA HAS TO GAIN GROUND WITH THE LATINO VOTE. HE NEEDS TO BLITZ THE LATINO"S WITH COMMERCIALS OF ECONOMIC prosperity.
Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/29/2008 8:42:51 PM

Comment: The coveted endorsement of TED KENNEDY " is a huge blow to New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who is both a senatorial colleague and a friend of the Kennedy family. In a campaign where Clinton has trumpeted her experience over Obama's call for hope and change, the endorsement by one of the most experienced and respected Democrats in the Senate is a particularly dramatic coup for Obama"Milligan 2008

'Kennedy believes Obama can ``transcend race'' and bring unity to the country, a Kennedy associate told the Globe. Kennedy was also impressed by Obama's deep involvement last year in the bipartisan effort to craft legislation on immigration reform, a politically touchy subject the other presidential candidates avoided, the associate said".Milligan 2008

OBAMA IS BOTH BLACK AND WHITE
Posted By: honeyman60 @ 01/29/2008 5:34:03 PM

Comment: I have been feeling uncomfortable with Bill Clintons role in this race. I almost fell out of my chair the other night after the SC race. Who was on stage making the concession speech but Bill. He had been in SC more than his wife. Bill is running again. That makes me uncomfortable. It is like he has found a way around the United States Constitution.
I have had 7 years under a leader that worked more at getting around the United States Constitution than anything else. I'm sick of leaders who feel above the law.

In my heart, my mind, my gut... I know it's wrong.
Posted By: fmiro @ 01/29/2008 5:17:26 PM

Comment: So "Clintonian"
Thanks God for Barrack Obama!
Posted By: fmiro @ 01/29/2008 5:16:12 PM

Comment: Who needs more" Clintons" in the White House?. We need Barack Obama!
Posted By: honeyman60 @ 01/29/2008 5:11:02 PM

Comment: more scandal? Just what America needs. sigh...
Posted By: LiveFreeOrDie @ 01/29/2008 4:12:01 PM

Comment: Bill and Hillary = Criminal Co-Dependent Power Addicts
Posted By: das17 @ 01/29/2008 1:43:55 PM

Comment: Why has the same level of scrutiny not been applied to the Bush and Cheney,. They presently are in office and have ties to corporate interests in every direction. And they have committed impeachable offenses.
- Posted By: U NO HOO @ 01/29/2008 20:48:42
  
  Comment: Name and prove one.
Posted By: An Arch Angel @ 01/29/2008 4:23:23 AM

Comment: I agree, Hillary is the way for this country to turn around. She is smart,hard working, and knows the system.Some people talk a good game, she plays a good game.Too many listen but,don't really hear.Wake up before we all lose ,again. Like we have for 8 years.
Posted By: sawalsborn @ 01/28/2008 10:52:03 PM

Comment: Hillary will make a great president, and to have Bill Clinton at her side is a great benifit for us.
But you know we must wait until the Media tells us what we want, I find them disgusting.
(THE MEDIA OF COURSE)
Posted By: sawalsborn @ 01/28/2008 10:23:34 PM

Comment: my advice to Hillary and Bill your friends in politics are only as good as yesterday, take care of
yourself and keep up the good work we need you Hillary.
Posted By: Kaelinda @ 01/27/2008 6:17:52 PM

Comment: I imagine the big corporations want Hillary to win, since they know from experience that the Clintons can be bought, and they don't know that about Obama.
- Posted By: sawalsborn @ 01/28/2008 22:47:53
  
  Comment: Tell me what is there to know about Obama??? He has no background of running the country.
  He says he has hope and wants change, but don't we all, but how is he going to it without experience.
  We need more than pretty talk at this time.
  - Posted By: vince.stewart @ 01/29/2008 11:11:30
    
    Comment: And Hillary does have a background of running the country???? I have one thing to say about Slick Willy...NAFTA.
Posted By: Jazzbeaux Beiderbecke @ 01/27/2008 12:56:58 PM

Comment: Izzykoff has been moping around for years, thinking that his Clinton hatreds would ultiamtely get him the Pulitzer. He's still at it, I see, and no closer.
If I may pass judgement on Isikoff, as he so relentlessly and unfairly does to othes, he's an officious pest.
- Posted By: Kim in Pasadena @ 01/29/2008 00:08:40
  
  Comment: Is anyone here actually questioning the veracity of this article, or are they simply resorting to ad hominem?
  Ad hominem is generally the resort of the lazy, or those who cannot defend because the argument is true. If you are just lazy, next time, do the work necessary to fact-check.
  
  I am finding it perpetually amazing as this election cycle goes on how much some democrats seem exactly like some republicans seemed to me for years-- incapable of accepting (or checking) any fact that they didn't like because it conflicted with their own set of political beliefs. I sincerely hope that all Americans will wake up and start using their own minds rather than simply responding like animals with little or no frontal cortex.
Posted By: Jazzbeaux Beiderbecke @ 01/27/2008 12:54:00 PM

Comment: Isikoff has been moping around for years, believing that hating the Clintons will ultimately get him a Pulitzer. He's still at it, I see, and no closer.
If I may pass judgement on Isikoff, as he's so eager to do to everybody else, he's an officious pest.
- Posted By: sawalsborn @ 01/28/2008 22:43:49
  
  Comment: What is it with this guy?? Isikoff has a real problem, hope he does not make it our problem.
Posted By: maxstar212 @ 01/27/2008 10:21:26 AM

Comment: Wow! Your bias really shows. I went to the "exclusive" Hillary Birthday Bash with my Partner, my Sister and her Husband. It cost us $100 each. It really was not all that "exclusive." If Obama was nominated the MSM would go just as hard on him. I wonder who the big corporate powers who run the media really want to win.
- Posted By: sawalsborn @ 01/28/2008 22:41:49
  
  Comment: Well I agree, the media will tell us soon, than after they win, attack time again.
Posted By: bucko @ 01/27/2008 10:10:46 AM

Comment: SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON IS GOING TO MAKE A GREAT PRESIDENT.
- Posted By: sawalsborn @ 01/28/2008 22:37:30
  
  Comment: Should be the greatest yet.
Posted By: carnabylane @ 01/27/2008 8:59:59 AM

Comment: Bill Clinton should be ashamed to show his face in public he is a disgrace both morally and ethically. He and Hillary have been involved in more scandals in their"35 years of experience" than I can count. Do people really want this corrupt, greedy, power hungry couple running our country? They neither one have military experience, he can't keeped zipped up literally and she can't figuratively. I
- Posted By: sawalsborn @ 01/28/2008 22:35:43
  
  Comment: Where have you been the last 8 years in a vacum?? Really now Bush could not even stay in the National
  guard, but he was willing to send our young men over to die for his cause. Our nation is in
  a recession and you are mad because bill clinton had an affair, how many people did that kill???
  We have been living with corrup, power hungry people for 8 years, give us a break PLEASE.
Posted By: gommy goomy @ 01/27/2008 8:59:13 AM

Comment: I have NEVER before written anything aimed at another poster before. But having read "Zuro", I've gotta know: Am I the only one thinking that there there might be a "Silence of the Lambs" thing going on at Zuros' domocile? You're not sitting beside an open pit, writing your incoherant nonsense, while some poor soul is pleading for their life? Are you? Please tell us you're not sewing a Hillary suit out of their flesh while your eating one of your previous victims and talking to a dead relative that you have propped up in a chair. You might want to check those dosage instructions on your 25 subscription bottles you've got scattered on your card table. And you're right. SHe is great. You're great. That arm you're eating is great. Everything's great.
Posted By: gommy goomy @ 01/27/2008 8:05:35 AM

Comment: Hey Mikey, are you sure that this lying sack "dazzled them", or were they just dumb struck by the load of crap that was falling from his mouth? And is anyone surprised that this dirt bag would throw in for his sugar daddys' brutal, corrupt father-in-law? It's all about the Benjamins, Mikey. He let Bernie Schwartz sell the Red Chinese sensitive guidance technology that allows their ICBMs to be targeted at US. Why would he do that? Cause Schwartz was the #1 cash boy for the Clintons. So the S.O.B. has some F.O.B.s. And they're all CROOKS. Just like him. Did I mention that he RAPED quanita Brodrick and exposed himself to Paula Jones, and forcably molested Kathleen Willey? There must be a special place in Hell for his kind. Ya think?
Posted By: zuro @ 01/26/2008 8:26:37 PM

Comment: None of us can survive in a pure and so-called vacuum society, there is no that society existing on the earth at all. Why are there so many people around the world who want to let Bill Clinton help them? Because Bill is a capable and justice-bearing person, then what the problem here?

Let the capable person do the challenging job, don't give the job to a person as G.W.Bush who was very fresh and lovable to women and men nearly 8 years ago, then what America got from Bush's leadership?

Let the culture of America which likes to kill the best, the most capable condidate first go and support the best condidate, Hillary! SHe will bring a great prosperity to America and the world. Don't let that dark-ego and jealous attitude shadow our clear view anymore.

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