That was President Clinton's first vacation back in 1993...with Ken Lay of Enron fame.
He returned there circa 2001 with one of the Enron whistleblowers (a lady).
There are pictures of him golfing there with Ken Lay during various Summers.
Posted on 07/10/2005 9:29:30 PM PDT by bitt
Why does that ring a bell?
What are all you people doing up so late? Don't cha have to work tomorrow?
Perhaps She Who Must Be Oyveyyed will reach out to another Rhodes Scholar for her oh-eight running mate, Ashley Wilkes, The Man Who Would Have Kicked Off Dubya-Dubya-Three.
Where in the article does Clinton say Kerry is soft on security? Newsmax does quote Clinton from the source article saying that Kerry lost because of the security issue, but if the original article did indeed say Clinton said Kerry was soft on security, you'd think Newsmax would have used that quote. Typical Newsmax -- rehashing something from the MSM and putting a misleading headline at the top.
(I'm not defending Kerry, just commenting on the typical Newmax rehash.)
Not sure .. I don't remember hearing of them before
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20050703/ASPENWEEKLY/107030004
(snip)
The Aspen Institute's new idea
By Allyn Harvey
July 3, 2005
At a mid-June press conference, Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson opened his comments on the Institute's future with a reference to its past.
"We didn't really partake in the community much, and worse yet, we didn't benefit from being in the most interesting community in the United States," Isaacson said.
"But... but... but isn't John Kerry a War Hero?"
Why yes....you are right. Did you know he was in Viet Nam? He tries not to make a big deal of it.
LOL, Beezlebub is sooooooooo transparent. But I guess he knows that there's no need to work too hard at it since libs are so easy to dupe.
But he had a plan. He was going to do it better. He wouldn't tell us what it was, but he would sure make hay for GW not putting out his exit strategy. Imagine! having a timetable for a war and its outcome. Thats as bad as saying Hillary is an expert on defense issues. I find it hard that she can even RECALL anything for more than a day. If she can refer to GW as Alfred E newman, then we should be able to liken her to Little Lu Lu. cankles and all.
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004 1:09 p.m. EDT
Billionaires Secretly Met in Aspen to Defeat Bush
In the days following the Democratic National Convention in Boston this past August, several billionaire Democratic activists secretly met at the famed Aspen Institute in Colorado.
The purpose of their clandestine meeting was "to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush," The New Yorker magazine reports in its most recent edition.
Details of the meeting remain sketchy, but the magazine described the Aspen conference this way: "Five billionaires joined half a dozen liberal leaders in a lengthy conversation about the future of progressive politics in America."
For sure, there were differences of opinion in the group, but they all shared one goal: to get George Bush this November.
The Aspen meeting was supposed to have been a top secret within Democratic Party circles.
When The New Yorker inquired about the meeting, an assistant to one of the attendees was surprised by the call.
"No one was supposed to know about this," the aide told the magazine. "We don’t want people thinking it’s a cabal or some sort of Masonic plot!"
Apparently the leader of the secret cabal is billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Cleveland, Ohio-based insurance company Progressive Corporation.
Like another attendee, wealthy financier George Soros, Lewis has poured millions into Democratic 527 groups, including Americans Coming Together and MoveOn.org.
One of Lewis’ top agenda items has been the decriminalization of marijuana, a policy position also shared by Soros.
Another billionaire who attended was John Sperling, founder of the online University of Phoenix.
Also present were Herb and Marion Sandler from California. The couple founded Golden West Financial Corporation, a California bank reportedly worth $17 billion.
The key agenda items for the Sandlers has been "preserving progressive income taxes and inheritance taxes," the magazine reported.
The wealthiest and most notable of those attending the meeting was George Soros, the 74-year-old Hungarian immigrant who desperately wants to defeat George Bush and has even compared him to the likes of Adolf Hitler.
Apparently, all was not roses at the billionaire confab, according to The New Yorker.
"The billionaires spent much of the time moaning the superior powers of the GOP," the magazine said, and the group even needed some cheerleading from Harold Ickes, a former top aide to Bill Clinton who is involved in the 527 efforts.
There was disagreement about some of the issues and policy positions the group should take.
Sperling, for one, argued that the main target of their efforts should be Wal-Mart. He wants to push for unionizing the giant retailer.
That idea was apparently vetoed by George Soros, who reportedly told the group he had no desire to support union initiatives and that his only single goal at this point was "ousting Bush."
Though not the leader of the group, Soros holds the largest bank account and as such is the 800-pound gorilla, having given more than $18 million to the 527s in an effort to defeat Bush.
The magazine said Soros had planned to keep a low profile in the closing months of the election, but suddenly changed course this summer when he decided to "jettison the strategy in favor of waging his own media-grabbing political campaign."
Soros hired a publicist and began a 12-city, $3 million personal crusade to defeat George Bush.
According to the magazine, Soros has nothing but contempt for Bush, who he considers "an ignorant fool."
More than that, he sees Bush as the face man for a secret cabal. "Bush was just chosen as a figurehead, an acceptable face for a sinister group," Soros told The New Yorker, adding, "Cheney is the Capo."
Clearly, Soros knows a thing or two about secret cabals and capos.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250244/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250461/posts
SO9
Oh I remember that story now .. that was at Colorado Aspen Ideas Institute??
See .. I told you your mind was like a sponge .. you remember everything :0)
This coming from a guy who could only win with the help of a third party...
That was President Clinton's first vacation back in 1993...with Ken Lay of Enron fame.
He returned there circa 2001 with one of the Enron whistleblowers (a lady).
There are pictures of him golfing there with Ken Lay during various Summers.
The thing that is coming to my mind is that somebody in the press made some really outrageous statement to one of their conventions, but I don't remember enough about it to even keyword at Google.
Perhaps kcvl remembers.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050711/ap_on_re_us/clinton_speech_1
EXCERPT
"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Newman is in charge in Washington," (Hillary) Clinton said referring to the freckle-faced Mad magazine character. She drew a laugh from crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Newman's catchphrase: "What, me worry?"
Clinton, who was speaking during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival, organized by the Aspen Institute nonpartisan think tank, didn't mention the presidential election in 2008.
This from the woman who can't manage to keep her own husband from screwing anything that walks.
I don't think I get this - - does Clinton think that a Democrat candidate for President should talk to rural voters as if they were athiests, condom-throwers, welfare mothers, race "victims", Hollywood drunks, gold-chained union thugs, abortion enthusiasts, and the rest of the losers, malcontents, and parasites who comprise the Democrat "base"? Yeah, okay - - THERE'S a strategy.
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