Posted on 06/21/2007 2:11:07 AM PDT by HAL9000
Indian-Americans have dumped US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama for his caustic remark ridiculing rival Hillary Clinton's links with Indian-Americans and has rallied behind the former first lady, boosting her fund raising campaign.Indian-Americans from across the US and business leaders from India will be converging here to attend a major fund-raising dinner Sunday which aims to collect around $500,000 to $1 million for Senator Clinton.
Over a thousand guests, including India's Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and leading NRI businessman S P Hinduja, will pay between $1,000 and $9,200 per plate at the sit-in dinner being organized by the 'Indian Americans for Hillary 2008'.
The Obama controversy has given a significant boost to the attendance at the dinner with most of the seats already being sold out, organizers of the fund-raiser said.
Leading hotelier Sant Chatwal said the target set by the community to contribute at least five million dollars to Clinton's campaign would be met. "Already, around $3 million have been raised and it should be possible to reach the target by the end of this year," Chatwal said.
What is an Indian aviation minister doing, sitting in that political dinner? Dick Nixon got ripped for taking Filipino businessmen's political money. We passed a law against that stuff. I guess that law is just for little people like Republicans.
Thanks for the post Hal. This should remind us that finance reform was nothing of the sort and I can’t believe anyone who voted for it had any intentions it would reform anything. Maybe it’s just me, but this kind of foreign influence peddling seems wrong and should be alarming to Americans.
So it seems they liked her gas staion/Ghandi joke after all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Mq8kOXV_E
Hey, if you are buying influence, you need to KNOW that someone will take your bribe and stay bought. You don’t want a dishonest politician thinking the graft is just a campaign contribution.
Just shut up and pay your taxes.
Hillary is from Chicago (suburbs). The Chicago definition of an honest politician is, “A politician who stays bought”.
Laugh, I feel the same way. I started this article thinking about casino money . . .
in flordia....all the elderly...always ask....feathers or dots?
sounds like the piaps telling jokes aobut indians at gas stations!!!
ANYONE or any group that would support this woman is nuts.
Being a sort of actress herself, Hill knows that after Hollywood, there’s Bollywood.
The Cherokee in me says no, no, no, to Hildebeast!
Fregards
Exactly what I was thinking.
Whew! The headline! For a minute there I thought Native Americans were falling for that old Democrat Party “We’re your friends and we’re here to help you” snake-oil again.
“Feathers or dots?”—LOL
Sure, "flordia" must be a wonderful place to have produced a genius like you who doesnt know how to spell even a word as complicated as "about".
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