Posted on 09/30/2007 7:46:33 AM PDT by vietvet67
Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to sell herself as a reformer, a new broom that will sweep away the traditional Washington chicanery. Yet her response to a fund-raising scandal in her own shop is classic old-school politics, and her determination to run a fully privatized presidential race is the antithesis of reform. Consider the case of Norman Hsu, the onetime fugitive and confessed crook who raised $850,000 for Clinton's campaign, and who now stands freshly accused of mail fraud, wire fraud, and violation of campaign finance laws. He was a "bundler," one of those many freelance players who tap people for donations, then bundle them for delivery to a money-hungry presidential candidate. He was an unusually notorious bundler, but, in the end, he was merely a symptom of a money race that has spun out of control.
When Clinton was asked about Hsu on NBC the other day, she said this: "Well, I'm very much in favor of public financing, which is the only way to really change a lot of the problems that we have in our campaign-finance system. . . . The real answer here is public financing, and I'm going to work very hard in my time in the Senate and then in the White House to try to get to a public-financing system . . . because that is the answer to all of these issues that have arisen."
In other words, Clinton insists that she is "very much in favor" of providing taxpayer money to the presidential candidates - in order to thwart the influence of private money, and foil the aspirations of the bundlers - and that she will "work very hard in my time in the Senate" to effectuate that kind of reform.
To which I say, "What a crock."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Hee hee...he said BROOM..hee hee....
The trifecta would be to work the word cackle in there. Hillary...broom...cackle. You wouldn’t even need to read the rest!
Where are the canceled check for the $850K “returned”?
Has she “vetted” the rest of the big “bundler's” or hidden them?
Why hasn’t Elliot and Andrew returned the Hsu money?
And questions not asked: Like, what were Hillary's practices during her Senatorial campaign? Does the name Peter Paul ring a bell? There's an 800lb gorilla in the room and few seem to notice.
Expecting the MSMedia to be objective and investigation of a Dem is like expecting Pravda to be thus of the old USSR Communist Party.
I seriously despise this government version of Robin Hood. I've worked for all I've got and she wants to give it away. People who support her are idiots.
I'm shocked!
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