Hillary is guilty only of exercising bad judgment in her choice of staff. She never insisted that he break ties with other clients during the campaign although others on her staff, like Wolfson, did. And she compounds this insult with injury by having him stay on in a pollling capacity. He has NOT left the campaign. In fact, he participated in their morning meeting with press present yesterday. This is a bit hypocritical. She again says one thing (opposes the FTA w/ Colombia) while her staff actively works for the opposition.
She cannot be blamed for Uribe, but she can be blamed for Penn.
Edward Hochman <whovian7_2000@Yahoo.com> wrote:
From what I read so far, Clinton was angry at this and this is why Penn was removed. This was between Penn and Uribe I believe. Penn was conducting his own private business and it is not fair to attribute this to hillary. Penn is Guilty, not hillary.ed
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From: Carole Tomaras <cbt7958@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 7:42:10 AM
Subject: [Dems2008] The Clinton-Uribe connection
From Human Rights Watch, The man Clinton campaign manager Mark Penn was just meeting with this week negotiating a trade agreement Hillary Clinton publicly renounces, narco-terrorist and right wing Columbian ruler Alvaro Uribe. Get this spread as far, and as loud as you can. This can end the Clinton campaign in short order. Alvaro Uribe has sympathizers in the right wing media, and has been publicly critical of Barack Obama. This example of how the Clinton's feel about the little people is demonstrated again and again, thru Wal-Mart's policies, the preying on of the elderly by Clinton friend Vinod Gupta. Bill and Hillary Clinton earned a combined $109 million between 2000 and 2007, including a $400,000 fee for the former president from a firm owned by their controversial (slimy) friend, Vinod Gupta. InfoUSA (a company under investigation for providing and marketing lists of vulnerable elderly to criminal con artists, with the intent of making it easier for them to fleece the elderly. eight and a half cents...that is what Hillary Clinton thinks your Grandma is worth) All PA Media outlets should get this, ALL media blitz..all markets.
Hillary Clinton is obviously not what America has been waiting for, but running from. Lets explain how obvious to everyone who didnt get the memo...
http://hrw.org/english/docs/ 2008/03/26/ colomb18353. htm
Colombia: NGOs Press Uribe to Address Wave of Violence Against Rights Defenders, Unionists
Uribe Adviser's Statements Contribute to Climate of Intolerance That Fosters Violence
(Washington, DC, March 26, 2008) - Recent statements by a close adviser to Colombian President Álvaro Uribe contributed to "a climate of political intolerance that fosters violence" shortly before a wave of killings, attacks, and threats against trade unionists and rights activists, a group of 22 international human rights organizations said in a joint letter to Uribe today.
Four Colombian trade unionists - some of whom were reportedly associated with a March 6 demonstration protesting state and paramilitary human rights violations - were killed between March 4 and March 11. Members of human rights organizations have been subject to physical attacks, harassment, office break-ins and thefts of files in the past weeks. More than two dozen organizations and individuals received death threats purporting to come from paramilitary groups in the capital, Bogota.
Shortly before the attacks, presidential adviser José Obdulio Gaviria made a series of statements on national radio linking renowned victims' representative Ivan Cepeda and other organizers of the March 6 protest to the notoriously abusive guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). On February 11, one day after Gaviria first made the statements, the supposedly demobilized United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group released a statement echoing Gaviria's allegations.
"Baseless comments such as these are profoundly damaging to Colombian democracy and human rights, and place those against whom they are made in direct danger of violence," said the NGO coalition in a letter to President Uribe. "These statements stigmatize the legitimate work of thousands of human rights defenders, trade unionists, and victims, and can have a chilling effect on the exercise of rights to freedom of expression and free association."
The coalition of NGOs called on President Uribe to:
- Publicly disavow statements by Gaviria and others that linked the protest organizers to guerillas;
- Reject the recent wave of attacks and reaffirm his government's support for the protection of the legitimate work of trade unionists and other human rights defenders; and
- Ensure a prompt and impartial investigation into each of the recent attacks, hold those responsible to account, and take decisive action to dismantle paramilitary groups and break their links to state officials.
The letter, a copy of which was also sent to the US government, pointed out that "this string of threats and attacks calls directly into question the effectiveness of the paramilitary demobilization process."
The violence comes as the Bush administration is aggressively pressing the US Congress to ratify a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia. "In the debate over the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, President Uribe has repeatedly claimed that he is protecting workers' rights," said the NGOs. "But the fact that President Uribe has allowed his presidential adviser to continue his harassment, even while trade unionists and rights defenders are being killed and threatened, suggests a real disconnect between Uribe's discourse and his actions."
The letter was signed by Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, Refugees International, Lutheran World Relief, Washington Office on Latin America, Jesuit Conference, Latin America Working Group, Center for International Policy, US Office on Colombia, Mercy Corps, United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), Friends Committee on National Legislation, Witness for Peace, Mennonite Central Committee, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, AFRODES USA, Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Colombia Human Rights Committee, Washington DC, Church of the Brethren Witness/Washington Office.
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Subject: [ObamaRapidResponse] iNFO: Bill met with Urbide last September, has been honored by Urbide!
The Uribe regime, after all, continues a chummy friendship with Bill Clinton, granting him the government's "Colombia Is Passion" Award last June. That, during the same 2007 spring when former vice president Al Gore cancelled his appearance at a Miami environmental conference because he did not want to share a podium with Uribe, the hemisphere's poster boy for state-sponsored terrorism, narco-trafficking, and assassinations of opposition political, labor and social movement leaders. Angela Montoya, representing the awards committee, told AP that former president "Clinton is Colombia's best tourism minister because every time he opens his mouth to talk about the country he's helping to improve our country's image without even realizing it."
Bill Clinton returned the favor by hosting Uribe as a "featured attendee" at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York last September.
Al Giordano - Uribe's Attack on Obama Narco News Bulletin 3 Apr 08
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