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    The Root of All Evil

    Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:15 PM | By Emily Yoffe
    Dahlia, maybe the $5 million comes from Hillary's bank account. She did make about $10 million from writing her autobiography. Isn't the real question: Why does she needs the money? In spite of her continuing good showing on election days, Obama is floating in cash, while she's cutting staffers' pay. But the bigger issue you raise is an important point about her entwined life with Bill. This incredible story in the New York Times lays out the dangers of having Bill engage in his philanthropic activities during a Hillary administration. It seems Bill and a major contributor to his charity, Frank Guistra, took a trip to Kazakhstan recently (not to film a sequel to Borat). Bill ended up praising the country's notorious dictator, a man both Hillary and the United States government have denounced. Bill's friend came away from the trip with a lucrative uranium deal. Guistra gave Bill's charity $30 million (for a total contribution of—I'm not making this up—$130 million). And then Bill and Guistra lied to the New York Times about a subsequent meeting with a high Kazakh uranium official at Bill's home in Chappaqua (their memories were refreshed when the Times found others who confirmed the meeting). If you were a Republican, wouldn't you want Hillary to be the nominee?
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