Who to Vote for in 2008? Part II

Hillary Clinton

Should we even go here??? Absolutely…

Amanda Carpenter’s must-read Dossier on Hillary Clinton details the following:

1) Foreign Money Sources…

…potentially available for Hillary to use for a 2008 presidential run (though, foreign money technically cannot support a domestic campaign – from Democracy Matters: “American law is governed by a clear principle that foreign governments, political parties, corporations, and individuals should not directly or indirectly influence any election. This principle is even extended to domestic subsidiaries of foreign corporations, who are allowed to only give contributions that come from domestic profits…”) include, but presumably are not limited to, the following:

a) Johnny Chung - $366,000 total donation to the Democratic National Convention
b) The Australian Council for the Peaceful Reunification of China - $300,000 invitation to Bill Clinton to speak at a 2002 conference
c) The Dabbagh Group - $475,000 given to Bill Clinton for two speeches in 2002
d) Markson Sparks - $925,000 given to Bill Clinton for seven appearances between 2001 and 2002
e) CLSA Ltd. - $500,000 given to Bill Clinton for two events in 2001 and 2002
f) DNM Strategies - $200,000 for a thirty-minute speech given May 23, 2002
g) DaimlerChrysler - $500,000 pledged to Bill Clinton and Ted Turner to build a “peace park” in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea (Ugh. Sounds like Ann Coulter’s “give them a basketball” logic)

2) Other Suspicious Donors

a) the Peter Paul Scandal
i) first, I recommend you become familiar with the “Cuban Coffee Caper” – here’s the gist: Cuba’s economy was failing in the late 1970s, so, in order to alleviate some economic pressure, Russia had agreed to buy Cuban coffee at a price higher than what it was selling on the world market. Karl Fessler, a commodities broker from Germany, initiated a fraudulent sale of $8.7 million dollars worth of “Barahona” Arabic blend coffee which never existed. One of Fessler’s main cohorts in the scam was Peter Paul, who, at the time, was president of the Miami World Trade Center. Paul later pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the Cuban government.
ii) Fast forward to 2000, when Peter Paul hosts fundraising events for Hillary Clinton’s first run for the U.S. Senate. Though campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson claimed “we will not be accepting any contributions from [Peter Paul],” the evidence seems to show otherwise. Seems as if Hillary didn’t report about $2 million dollars she received in contributions.

b) Willie Tan – Clinton accepted $8,000 from this “sweatshop owner” (via Pacific Magazine, which paints a now-rosy picture):

“Tan helped launch the garment industry in Saipan 20 years ago, and in those days the Saipan factories deserved to be labeled as "sweat shops." Tan's-and other companies'-factories were hot, full of fabric dust and crowded. In recent years, however, the three Tan Holdings factories have cleaned up their act: They are mostly air conditioned and no longer fodder for New York Times' exposés about the exploitation of Asian workers.” (see Byron York for more)

c) John Burgess – slimeball owner of International Profit Associates (bio here). Who exactly is John Burgess? According to the New York Times in May 2006, he is “a disbarred New York lawyer with a criminal record for attempted larceny and patronizing a sixteen-year-old prostitute.” Reportedly, Hillary accepted $157,000 in campaign donations from the organization, which, unlike most politicians, she did not give back. Incidentally, Bill Clinton received $125,000 from the same organization in 2001.

3) Tax Cuts

a) voted against the Bush Tax Cuts four separate times in 2001 and 2003
b) voted against capital gains tax cuts four separate times between 2001 and 2006

4) Pork Barrel Spending Schemes – the following laundry list represents Hillary’s ideology of the government, rather than its citizens, offers the best chance at economic growth:

a) $350,000 allocated for a regional survey by Albany’s Center for Economic Growth
b) $4 million dollars allocated for Rochester’s National Center for Excellence (see the bottom of the page)
c) $250,000 allocated for the Metropolitan Development Authority of Syracuse and Central New York’s “Vision 2010 Economic Development Strategy”
d) $250,000 allocated for Rural Opportunities, Inc.
e) $250,000 allocated for Broome-Tioga Works

Ugh. Sound like a lot of spending to you?

5) Hillary Care

From World Net Daily:
“In the 1990s, the idea of universal health care was called Hillary Care because Hillary Clinton orchestrated the assembly of a national universal health-care program that was promoted to the American people and proposed to Congress.

“It would have assembled a complicated set of payment procedures for individuals and companies, and then mandated various coverage levels and circumstances. Congress ultimately rejected the proposal out of hand, saying it could not be repaired enough to make it workable.

“However, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney just a few months ago signed into law the proposal from that state's Legislature launching a new mandatory universal health insurance program.

“That specific program requires all uninsured adults to buy that insurance by July 1, 2007 – and prove it on their income tax returns – or face fines that could range into the thousands of dollars.”

Nice to know we can ALWAYS count on Massachusetts to take the lead, even with Republicans at the helm. How does this sound – buy from the government, or else??? That’s what Hillary wants – do you?

6) Illegal Immigration
Michelle Malkin documents her flip-flops here.

7) Iraq War
Here is her flip-flop on that, too.

Wow, Obama’s looking better by the day, isn’t he? And there’s more out there on Hillary, sure to come! Next up: John Edwards…