For one thing I can’t find in the “ballot” version the quote about destroying Alice Palmer which was in the “bare-knuckle” version:
And he defended his use of ballot maneuvers: “If you can win, you should win and get to work doing the people’s business.”
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[dunno whether this is in the sanitized or not:]
Asked whether the district’s primary voters were well-served by having only one candidate, Obama smiled and said: “I think they ended up with a very good state senator.”

Imo a very nasty, dismissive thing to say, as they already HAD a very good state senator, Alice Palmer. Mr Kumbaya Negotiator could have done things a little differently, and got TWO state senate seats for his group, instead of bumping her out of hers and then making nasty remarks about her.

More details at my LiveJournal.

In a typical Arab fashion, Dubai opted instead to hire lobbyists and former U.S. politicians to grease the wheels, including former senator Bob Dole and former secretary of State Madeleine Albright (Dole’s law and lobbying firm, Alston & Bird, and The Albright Group, led by Albright, were officially hired by DP World to lobby the deal in Washington). Dubai also depended on the good advice of former president Bill Clinton. This often works, but as is the case here, it sometimes backfires.

I was looking for the current status of this deal but nothing since 2006…

I would dearly love to see CIFIUS peeled back and pumped out by a Rooter-Rooter Truck. Everyone acted like they were completly in the dark about what goes on over at CIFIUS. I would take old Morris says with a gain of salt. If he is being paid by a foreign government doesn’t that have to be declared? I am curious if Hillary was concerned about it because of Bill’s activities….

Good one Cee…

As head of the Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenstein is a regular at power lunches along the New York-Washington corridor.Mr. Rubenstein and other
American financiers have long traveled to the Middle East in search of energy dollars to finance deals in the United States. Carlyle, in fact, has been one of the more aggressive in courting Mideast investors.

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From Clinton friend Dick Morris

Saturday, March 4, 2006 2:02 p.m. EST
Dick Morris: Clinton on Dubai Payroll

Former President Bill Clinton is up to his eyeballs in dealings with Dubai, his former top political adviser has revealed.

According to Dick Morris, author of the best-selling book, “Condi vs, Hillary,” Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, now involved in a firestorm over its deal to take over some of the operations at six major U.S. ports.

“Bill Clinton is a senior adviser – a paid adviser – to a company called Yucaipa which recently set up a relationship with a group called the Yucaipa Investment group to set up a new company called DIGL,” Morris said on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

“DIGL Inc. is in charge of managing the investments of the crown prince of Dubai throughout the world. Bill Clinton is paid by Yucaipa a percentage of the profits it makes, and Yucaipa said its profits have exceeded 40 percent in recent years.

“He is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai. That in addition to the roughly million dollars they gave his library, in addition to the probably $600,000 in speaking fees he got, and in addition to the scholarships for Dubai children they endowed through his library.

“I have three points about that. First, when Bill Clinton tells us this port deal is kosher, he ought to disclose that he’s being paid by the government. Secondly, he should register as an agent of a foreign principal because he’s giving public relations advice to a foreign company. And thirdly, his wife should disclose how much Clinton is being paid and when he’s been paid, because it goes into a joint bank account and this is in effect a payment to the husband of a senator.

“And then I would raise another question: Didn’t Hillary jump out of the box opposing this port deal because she knew of her husband’s vulnerability and wanted to get out ahead of the story? I was talking to a source of mine who’s very close to the Clintons about seven or eight months ago and the source said that he’s all the time going back and forth to Dubai and getting deeper and deeper into that relationship. She (Hillary) was worried about that and its political impact,” Morris said.

William Kennard
DC Carlyle Group Bundler for Barack Obama, raised more than $200,000.00 2008

Louis Susman
IL Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking Bundler for Barack Obama, raised more than $200,000.00 2008

I have to say if you have it flaunt it.
I Wonder why the Carlyle Group has not donated to Hillary.
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/index.cfm