Thursday, May 31, 2007

More on Hillary's Donors

More news on Hillary's suspect donors. My previous post was on a donor who is facing repeated charges of sexual harassment. Other pols have given the money back. Not Hillary. Now this story from a Clinton supporter. Froma Harrop, RCP:

Sometimes I forget why the Clintons disturb me. Then they offer a reminder. Case in point are reports that one of Hillary Clinton's most pampered donors made big bucks off scams against the elderly.

Vinod Gupta heads infoUSA, a "list broker" that has been selling the names of elderly Americans to known con artists. In 2002, he flew the Clintons to a vacation in Acapulco on the company jet. The Omaha-based enterprise subsequently paid Bill Clinton more than $2 million in consulting fees. Gupta gave $1 million to his foundation.

They deliberately targeted people with cancer or Alzheimers. How despicable.

UPDATE: Hill and Bill profiled by Noemie Emery on the cover of the June 4th issue of the Weekly Standard "Days of Their Lives". Very on point, read it all. I like this excerpt:

It was only when she started running for president that it began falling apart. The Clintons had been running a very long time, and even some erstwhile fans were fatigued. Eight years had gone by since impeachment, and six years since Bill had left office; they now lived separate lives. In a strange way they had managed to trade situations: He had a symbolic role, she had a real one; she had real power, he had its memory; he was a show horse, trying to find ways to fill empty hours; she was a workhorse, grinding away at her job. Their schedules, their interests, their circles were different. They were seldom at the same place at the same time in their big houses. As the marriage lost traction, so did the story and the fascination with it: People once intrigued by the strapping young president and the trim blonde with long hair lost interest in the haggard man with white hair, and the hard-looking woman who seemed to fill out her pant suits a little too amply. As the scandals grew dim, so did her celebrity aura: She was no longer the controversial co-president, the would-be Evita, the long-suffering spouse betrayed for the dubious charms of the thong-baring bimbo. She was no longer Nora leaving the Doll's House to embrace a new destiny. She was now one of a hundred United States senators, industrious, but not all that outstanding--prosaic, pedantic, and dull.

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