Clinton papers reveal donor, embargo ties

Washington Times ^ | March 24, 2008 | by Jerry Seper

[jdm]

** EXCERPT **

With a large charitable donation in hand, Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady flew to Little Rock to dine with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a 1993 gala honoring her as an "Arkansan of the Year" at a time his company, a multibillion dollar banking conglomerate, was seeking an end to a 30-year trade embargo with Vietnam.

Five days after the March 4, 1993, dinner at the Excelsior Hotel, Mr. Riady took the embargo question directly to President Clinton, saying in a four-page letter that its demise would bring political reforms in that communist country.

By that time, Mr. Riady's banking conglomerate, the $12 billion Indonesia-based Lippo Group, its subsidiaries and its employees, including his son James and executive John Huang had funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mr. Clinton's 1992 presidential race and had guaranteed a $3 million last-minute loan to a cash-short Clinton campaign just before the crucial New York primary in 1992.

Within six months of the dinner, the Lippo firm opened its first offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, and a further five months later Mr. Clinton signed an executive order lifting the embargo, which had been in effect since 1964.

The close proximity of Mrs. Clinton's contact and Mr. Riady's Little Rock donation to his efforts to lobby for an end to the embargo were never disclosed at the time and only became public with the release last week of 11,046 pages of Mrs. Clinton's White House activity calendars.

[ballplayer]

Did they Discuss Bubba going to Arizona to sign a Bill Making the Largest deposit of clean Burning Coal IN UTAH a National Park thereby making it out of bounds for mining so as to make James Riady and his lippo group the only other supplier of such coal in the world?

[mewzilla]

Bump for later.

[rod1]

Payola 101. Not even subtle.

[rod1]

and just think, this is what the Clintanoids think is safe to show people...imagine what is in the rest of the pages.

[rod1]

So James Riady was the an earlier version of Norman Hsu for the Clintons. Besides being a convicted criminal.

[Carry_Okie]

Yep. It's all about money.

The power to regulate is the power to control an economy. That makes it power for sale.

Everybody knows that the economics of socialism suck. So why do corporations give anything to the Slave Party?

Selling favorable regulations, whether to create a monopoly, constrain supply, or punish competitors, is the only way Democrats can attract corporate cash. If attraction doesn't work, their only other means is extortion. It says a lot about how corrupt America has become.

The reason we had limited government in the first place is so that it wouldn't have power to sell. The behavior of the states was to be constrained by natural law competition.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

But in so doing, it gives the false impression that communism is a successful economic system, though the ChiComs and Viets are breaking one golden rule of Marxism by not ‘doing it on their own’ but by trading with free-market countries.

With slave labor and free trade outside their borders, they have lots of disposable income to spend on the military.

[Carry_Okie]

With slave labor and free trade outside their borders, they have lots of disposable income to spend on the military.

Yup, there's a reason "free trade" has been a communist priority since the beginning: it is a subsidy to corporations that socialize the risks.

[cake_crumb]

Hillary doesn’t recall....

[cake_crumb]

"Obama caught with a racist Black Liberation Theology preacher and an advisor scoring illegal access into passport files."

Is Obama still all fired up on having a FULL INVESTIGATION?? The other two candidates should INSIST on one.

[cake_crumb]

"well, he was right about that. Free trade raises all boats and reforms political systems."

Yeah, it's really made a difference in China.

[cake_crumb]

"Makes you wonder what’s in the tax returns she won’t release. And the donor records for the lie-brary and massage parlor ... "

Accounting errors.

[Southack]

Hillary and Obama are taking too many PR hits.

Look for Al Gore to come to the Dems’ rescue at the DNC convention in Denver.

[cake_crumb]

"Gee, an Indonesian at a gala to honor the “Arkansan of the Year.” Nothing suspicious there."

How nice it would be if Barack had ties. After all he and Hillary have Rezko in common.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This constitutes bribery.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

PS: How much did Riady pay for taking the Utah coal reserves off the market.

[cake_crumb]

"Look for Al Gore to come to the Dems’ rescue at the DNC convention in Denver."

/:-) I look forward to interrupting him in mid "BETRAAAAAYED" to ask him why the whole year has been colder than average. And if he knows it's been so cold the ice cap has recovered.

[Southack]

That’s great, but half of this nation accepts his climate spiel without question.

Gore as an ‘08 candidate won’t fare well against the far-right, but we’re only 30% of the country.

[cake_crumb]

IF it were all ever added together....millions.

[cake_crumb]

"Gore as an ‘08 candidate won’t fare well against the far-right, but we’re only 30% of the country."

True. There probably aren't enough voters with severe cases of Clintonitis to make Al lose TOO many votes...but then, he's guilty of many of the same campaign crimes as the Clintons. Remember Temple finance.