Bill Clinton Linked to Chinese Oppression

Not at all surprising:

As Chinese authorities have clamped down on unrest in Tibet and jailed dissidents in advance of the 2008 Olympics, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken a strong public stance, calling for restraint in Tibet and urging President Bush to boycott the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing.

But her recent stern comments on China’s internal crackdown collide with former President Bill Clinton’s fundraising relationship with a Chinese Internet company accused of collaborating with the mainland government’s censorship of the Web. Last month, the firm, Alibaba Inc., carried a government-issued “most wanted” posting on its Yahoo China homepage, urging viewers to provide information on Tibetan activists suspected of stirring recent riots.

Alibaba, which took over Yahoo’s China operation in 2005 as part of a billion-dollar deal with the U.S.-based search engine, arranged for the former president to speak to a conference of Internet executives in Hangzhou in September 2005. Instead of taking his standard speaking fees, which have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000, Clinton accepted an unspecified private donation from Alibaba to his international charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation.

The former president’s charity has raised more than $500 million over the last decade and has been lauded for its roles in disaster response, AIDS prevention and Third World medical and poverty relief. But his reliance on influential foreign donors and his foundation’s refusal to release its list of donors have led to repeated questions about the sources and transparency of his fundraising…

Sorry, but there’s only one thing to say about this - the shady donations are merely a calculation by foreign interests that they may be buying influence in a future Clinton Administration. This is just the corrupt nature of the Clinton, Inc. beast - or do you think this is all new stuff? Questionable fundraising and Clinton go together like Mafia and Don. While Democrats spend their time wondering if Cheney - who has divested himself entirely from Halliburton - is working for Halliburton’s benefit, no Democrat seems to want to know if various Chinese and other foreign elements own the Clintons body and soul.

This nauseating greed for money and power on display in the actions of the Clintons, coupled with the way Democrats refuse to condemn it, illustrates the depths to which the Democratic party has fallen. As my Dad points out, the corrupt city bosses of Democratic history at least did some things for their cities - and most of them died broke; these days, senior Democrats are determined to live very well, indeed, and don’t question to closely about who is writing the checks, or what they might demand later on.

Tags: Bill Clinton, China, Hilly Clinton, illegal donations, Tibet

55 comments April 13th, 2008

The Curious Norman Hsu

While the FEC against Hillary Clinton works its way through the bureaucracy, an interesting news story about Norman Hsu has come out in the Wall Street Journal. Interesting because of this:

The man went bankrupt in the United States in 1990, bankrupt in Hong Kong in 1997 and made his first federal political donation in 2003. Huh? Yeah, you read that right - a double-bankrupt starts gathering large donation amounts six years after his second bankruptcy. You might want to recall what happened in 2003 - campaign finance reform went into effect, and politicians were in desperate need of people who could raise large sums of money from a large number of donors. Hsu gave his first $2,000 to John Kerry in 2003, and became such a success as a money raiser that Democrats embraced him far and wide. How? How does a bankrupt convince people to give very large amounts of money to politicians?

There is something mighty fishy here - and now that we have the substance of our FEC complaint (ie, illegal donations via Chinese connections), it becomes vital that we get to the bottom of all this. Hsu’s money came from somewhere, and people don’t give to politicians without some expectation of return on their investment. Don’t think that its just Hillary involved - she’s the biggest hog at the trough of illegal and questionable money, but Obama and Edwards and the entire Democratic party are right there with her, only outpaced because of Clinton’s uncanny ability to attract money, legal or otherwise.

My opinion? Someone or some group is purchasing the Democratic party - I don’t know who it is or what their ultimate motivation is, but the fact of all this illegal money shows that someone out there wants very much to have a very large say in what Democrats do in office. For the safety of our democratic institutions, we must demand that this be investigated fully.

Tags: FEC Complaint, illegal donations, Norman Hsu

15 comments November 13th, 2007