Is treason too strong of a word for this? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/us/politics/07hillary.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Here's the summary:
1) Hillary Clinton opposes a bilateral trade treaty with Columbia
2) Mark Penn, Clinton's top presidential advisor is also still CEO of a PR firm, Burson-Marsteller
3) As his role as CEO he has been hired (and met with) the president of Columbia to work with Columbia on passage of said bilateral trade treaty.
Fine, maybe it's not treason, but at best it's a major conflict of interest. This guy is in a key position influencing a candidate for President's views and opinions. Very sketchy if you ask me.
Political consultants are definitely part of the problem (along w/ the party system in general).
Mark Penn's PR firm's other clients include: Countrywide Financial and Blackwater.
Ironically, the Columbian gov't fired the PR firm b/c they were "insulted that he was distancing himself from them"
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams would not stand for this.
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My family is from Colombia and I find it very ignorant for you to continually spell the country the same way you spell some second rate American university. It's spelled with an O.
It's amazing how ignorant some people can be about the world!
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