The liberals and the media have always had fun tagging Bush as “intellectually incurious” but you really have to wonder where their intellectual curiosity went on this one.
Clintons Sell Possibly Troublesome Stock
WASHINGTON (AP) – Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton liquidated the contents of their blind trust upon learning it contained investments of $5 million to $25 million that could pose conflicts of interest or prove to be embarrassing to her presidential campaign.
The blind trust and a bank account valued in the same range place the Clinton’s total wealth at between $10 million and $50 million.
The Clintons opened the blind trust in April under instructions from the Office of Government Ethics and sold the assets in May, according to a disclosure form filed Friday. The Clintons have had a blind trust since former President Clinton was governor of Arkansas in 1983 and had no control over its transactions.
Once they peered inside it, they discovered it included investments in oil and drug companies, military contractors and Wal-Mart.
Excuse me? They “peeked inside” their blind trust? Then it isn’t a blind trust is it?
I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation… and I don’t really care what they did with their money, frankly I wish it was a requirement that all elected officials had to put all their money in the Vanguard Index 500 fund… But I do know the media seems strangely incurious about the whole thing.
I wonder what they would say if Dick Cheney “peeked inside” his blind trust?
