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August 30, 2007
When Talking About Scandals in Politics...

You'll never find yourself too far from a Clinton:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.

The decision came Wednesday as other Democrats began distancing themselves from Norman Hsu, whose legal encounters and links to other Democratic donors have drawn public scrutiny in the past two days.

Al Franken, a Senate candidate in Minnesota, Reps. Michael Honda and Doris Matsui of California and Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania said they would divest their campaigns of Hsu's donations.

Hsu is a fundraiser for Clinton and is described as a devoted fan of the presidential candidate and New York senator. He had planned to co- host a money event for Clinton on Sept. 30. In a statement Wednesday, Hsu said he believed he had resolved his legal issues, but said he would halt his work raising political money.

Shades of monks with heavy wads of campaign cash? I wonder who has a controlling legal authority over this one? In case you Democrats out there are still unsure about it: the Clinton's are corrupt as the day is long. It isn't a matter of whether they'll break the law, but how often. Given that they are dirty, they tend to attract additional dirt.

One does wonder how an event two months in the past suddenly surfaces just now - the Craig event, I mean. The troubles with Clinton aren't the only Democratic scandals bubbling close to the surface...could it be that the DNC was holding Craig as a "Foley-in-the-Hole" for 2008, but had to let fly sooner in order to divert attention away from Democrat scandals? As co-author of the book on Democrat corruption, I know for certain there is nothing Democrats won't do.

Posted by Mark Noonan at 12:06 AM | Comments (8) | Track



Comments

Yes, drawing attention away from the fact that the Clinton camp turned around and donated the suspect contribution to a charitable cause with another report about republican hypocrisy makes much sense than leaking the arrest of Craig a month before the election, instead of 14 months, especially sense she's, you know, the frontrunner and in real risk of being toppled by such incidents. But the Right criticizes her, for doing the very the same thing they would have criticized her for not doing if she hadn't. So basically the Right has decided to criticize her no matter what she does, which says a lot more about their integrity than hers.

Posted by: R A Pendergast [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2007 02:49 AM


Perhaps Bill can pardon him now because he didn't realize when he was handing out pardons that this Right Wing Conspiracy would unfold. Or maybe Hillary can pardon him now because the vote will be stolen in Florida next fall and the Presidency was stolen also?

Posted by: SEW [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2007 09:47 AM


Ummm, at least she's giving the money to charity. . .

Remember THIS story?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/16/terror/main2488520.shtml

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17618231/site/newsweek/page/0/

So, if Clinton is in bed with crooks (by mere association), it follows that the GOP is in bed with Al Qaeda!

GOP moneybag Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari was indicted for trying to send $152,000 to terror-training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Alishtari is a member of the White House Business Advisory Committee and a “U.S. National Republican Senate Inner Circle Member for Life.” He’s a DoD/Homeland Security contractor, obviously, and he claims to be best buddies with Dick Cheney!

To my knowledge, the GOP has NOT given the donations from Alishtari to charity. . .

Posted by: coulterfan [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2007 10:53 AM


Coulterfan notice the Bush justice department indicted this guy. No similar indictment under Cliton.

Also note she's only donating the money he donated directly, not the money donated through all the straw donors.

Then of course there are all of the Dem political action committees that don't feel constrained by those pesky election laws.

Posted by: phnx at August 30, 2007 12:09 PM


Does it really make any difference to anyone outside GOP circles what either Clinton does? GOP scandals and policy failures are just so much more interesting, I guess.

Posted by: Just Another Taxpayer [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2007 04:19 PM


I for one , want to see a transparent paper trail just who, when and how she donates it!!!

Posted by: Xango Annie at August 30, 2007 07:57 PM


So, you liberals are OK with this scandal and giving the money away after being caught makes it all better? OK - just trying to understand. I'm almost there guys. I'm almost thinking like you.

Posted by: Kahn [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2007 11:17 PM



Kahn,

Ok with Clinton or not, the question is what's more important to voters? Hillaries paltry few hundred thousand, or Bush billions gone missing in Iraq, or New Orleans. If you can make that more important, repubs can get somewhere. If not, you're stuck. And if the dems are percieved as being financially corrupt, the republicans are percieved by their own base as being morally corrupt.
Perception is everything, Kahn.

Posted by: Just Another Taxpayer [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 31, 2007 12:37 PM