http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/mark-davis/2015/04/24/forget-hillary-clinton-joe-biden-is-the-democrats-best-bet-in-2016?int=a39d09&int=a6ea09Joe Biden Is No Joke
With Hillary Clinton's campaign already faltering, Democrats have an obvious candidate to turn to.
By Mark W. Davis
April 24, 2015 | 10:15 a.m. EDT
Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy is beginning to look like an aging bomber hit one time too many by flak. Her campaign is making that ungraceful roll that precedes the fatal, disintegrating tumble. For decades, the Clintons have been the Houdinis of American politics, able to wiggle out of heavy chains to escape one death trap after another, always emerging with taunting smiles. But this time feels different.
Yesterday, The New York Times ran a long investigative piece detailing how millions in cash went to the Clinton Foundation from a Russian interest that needed a green light from the State Department to corner the world uranium market. Former President Bill Clinton received a jaw dropping $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank in charge of rating the stock of the company pursuing the deal.
The Clinton money pipeline doesn’t look any prettier downstream. Sean Davis in The Federalist reports on public filings showing that, of the $500 million the Clinton Foundation raised between 2009 and 2012, only 15 percent went toward programmatic grants (in other words, actual charities). Some $25 million went toward travel, and almost $300 million went toward “other expenses.”
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