By: Gabriel Garnica

Few politicians in recent memory evoke as much angst as this woman who seeks the highest office in the land, again. She personifies what is wrong with liberals and what is wrong with a nation where her ilk can get near the Oval Office much less aspire to it.

It seems that half of the nation hates her and the other half either inexplicably buys what she is selling or somehow believes she is good for this country.

No matter where they fall on the Hillary meter, however, it seems that everyone has spent some time grappling with a way to understand her, to figure out what she is trying to do or what she really thinks.

A basic understanding of rule simplicity, liberal vs. conservative stands on that simplicity and Hillary Clinton herself are all the ingredients one needs to develop The Hillary Rules.

Simple Rules Rule
As an educator for over 20 years, I have come to realize that the best lessons, the ones that remain in the minds of students, are the most simple and basic ones. You can teach a class scores of facts and figures, concepts and positions, but unless you find a way to simplify, to crystallize that teaching, most of them will forget most of that teaching too soon for your comfort.

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Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton owes her fellow Senator Larry Craig a huge debt.

The scandal involving the Idaho Republican has deflected the media’s attention from the revelations of dodgy campaign contributions her campaign received from fugitive California businessman Norman Hsu. Craig is a much better story. For one thing he’s a conservative Republican with close ties to social conservatives who is so out of touch with reality that it’s comical. His "I am not gay. I never have been gay" statement convinced no one.

What makes Craig’s downfall so dramatic is that it came from a high perch of moral superiority that Republicans seem to like to inhabit more than Democrats. There also have been rumors about Craig’s allegedly secret gay life since the early 1980s when there was a scandal involving members of Congress having sex with male pages. Craig, a Congressman at the time, issued a statement denying rumors that he had been implicated. He reportedly is now close to resigning.

This is more bad news for the Republicans during a week when they should have been basking in the media spotlight.

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported that one of the biggest donors to the Clinton campaign was the blue-collar Paw family of Daly City, Calif. It turns out that Hsu listed the Paw’s tiny, lime green bungalow as his home address, according to the paper. Later, it turned out that Hsu was a fugitive from justice for 15 years who fled from California after pleading guilty to defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme. Clinton and other Democrats are giving away the money Hsu gave them to charity. Perhaps they might want to consider donating it to his victims.

Is it fair that the media seems to be more interested in Craig’s problems than Clinton’s? They both are good stories but Craig’s has the added element of hypocrisy. His private deeds didn’t match his public character. As for Clinton, the Hsu affair is more of the same shenanigans that the public has grown accustomed to.

Source: Media World

Note the name of his CD: Get Rich or Die Trying… A motto Hillary can relate to?

"Me and George Bush were both actually born on July 6, he’s just a little older than me. And he does have a talent: He has less compassion than a regular human being." He added, "Me and George Bush are so different. … I actually go to war, when I go to war. Bush just sends [people] to war. When I took a trip to Iraq — ’cause I went to perform for the soldiers in Iraq — they had the same vehicles that I ride around in New York." While he’s not crazy about President Bush, 50 did reveal who he would like to be the successor: "I’d like to see Hillary Clinton be president. It would be nice to see a woman be the actual president and … this is a way for us to have Bill Clinton be president again, and he did a great job during his term." …

There seems to be growth industry in meaningless polls. They pour through the door on a daily basis, stuffed with information of no imaginable consequence or practical application.

“Majority of Arkansans prefer Bar-B-Que over biscuits and gravy, poll finds.”
“32% of Inuit say they wish they lived in Florida: Survey.”

OK, I made those up. But here’s a real one that’s equally irrelevant. The Angus Reid polling people have discovered that Hillary Clinton is by far the most popular choice for U.S. president among people who have no chance whatever of voting for her.

Mrs. Clinton is first pick for U.S. president in Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy, none of which has any say in whether she wins or not. Barack Obama, the Illinois senator, is a distant second, polling below 15% in all five countries among voters who can’t vote for him either. Obama is so unpopular among people who can have no effect on his life, in fact, that he’s trailing “Not Sure” in every instance.

Predictably, Mrs. Clinton is most popular among people who know least about her. She is by far the favourite in France and Germany, backed by 43.7% of French who can’t vote for her, and 45.5% of Germans. Britons, who lived through 11 years of Margaret Thatcher, are less enthusiastic about strong-minded female leaders. Canadians are likewise lukewarm on the woman, probably because we actually have the vaguest idea of what she’s like.

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A longtime Clinton advisor was at the helm of a George Soros-backed Democratic fundraising group when it illegally spent campaign cash during the 2004 presidential election.

The group, America Coming Together, signed an agreement with the Federal Election Commission to pay a $755,000 fine in order to settle charges ACT had violated campaign finance law. The FEC released details of the agreement on August 29.

This settlement was the third largest penalty ever paid to the FEC.

In the run-up to the November 2004 election, ACT raised approximately $137 million. According to the FEC, ACT improperly classified $70 million in receipts in “administrative costs” that were attributable to clearly identified federal candidates.

Campaign finance law, which is enforced by the FEC, regulates how money can be raised and spent in federal elections. Most of ACT’s 2004 election activities were designed to defeat President George Bush and elect Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.) as President. The group wrongly marked many of those expenses as get-out-the-vote activities, which are not as strictly regulated like money spent to elect or defeat a specific candidate.

Changes made to campaign finance law in 2001 mandate that money for federal elections must be raised in smaller amounts than money contributed for get-out-the-vote activities. Therefore, because ACT spent non-federal money, which is easier to raise, on federal candidates, candidates supported by ACT, like Kerry, had an unfair advantage in the 2004 election.

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From Captain’s Quarters

The mystery of Norman Hsu deepens today with a New York Times report on his collapsing cover stories. While the Gray Lady tries to focus on the sudden retreat of Democrats from a man who has raised almost a million dollars for them, the real story comes in the second half of the article — in which Hsu appears to be a front:

People who met him said they knew only that he ran an apparel business. Efforts to learn more about his trade hit dead-ends yesterday. Visits to companies at addresses listed by Mr. Hsu on campaign finance records provided little information. There were no offices in buildings in New York’s garment district whose addresses were given for businesses with names like Components Ltd., Cool Planets, Next Components, Coopgors Ltd., NBT and Because Men’s clothing — all listed by Mr. Hsu in federal filings at different times.

At a new loft-style residential condominium in SoHo that was also listed as an address for one of his companies, an employee there said that he had never seen or heard of Mr. Hsu. Another company was listed at a condo that Mr. Hsu had sublet in an elegant residential tower in Midtown Manhattan just off Fifth Avenue, but an employee there said Mr. Hsu moved out two years ago, after having lived there for five years. The employee, who was granted anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about residents, said he recalled that Mr. Hsu had received a lot of mail from the Democratic Party.

Hillary Clinton told a Manhattan audience yesterday that her team tries to do the best they can in vetting volunteers. How could any vetting process possibly miss this? None of his story checks out at all, not even with the most cursory look at his record. It’s filled with false addresses. Not even his listed residence appears current. Exactly what kind of vetting did Hillary do?

Hilariously, Eliot Spitzer joined Hillary on stage yesterday. The Governor, whose previous job was Attorney General, got $62,000 of Hsu money for his campaign. Are we to believe that the former top law-enforcement officer of the state of New York couldn’t find out that Hsu was a fraud?

No one vetted Hsu. The only process Hillary and Spitzer used was cashing the check. If it didn’t bounce, Hsu got into the club.

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A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a grand theft charge.

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge H. James Ellis ordered Norman Hsu handcuffed and held on $2 million bond. A bail hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5, at which the judge will consider reducing his bail to $1 million.

Hsu appeared in court accompanied by a lawyer and publicist, both of whom declined to say whether the New York apparel executive would immediately post bail. A warrant was issued for his arrest after he skipped the sentencing for a 1991 grand theft charge.

In the ensuing years, Hsu became a top donor to numerous Democratic candidates and was a fundraiser for presidential contender Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He also had contributed to Sen. Barack Obama’s past Senate campaign and his political action committee.

On Friday, Hsu, who has an apparel business in New York, also resigned from the board of trustees of The New School and from the board of governors of The New School’s Eugene Lang College. The college received a federal appropriation secured by Clinton last year, but a spokesman for the school said Hsu was not involved in seeking money for the school.

After reports surfaced this week of Hsu’s fugitive status in California, Clinton joined other candidates in returning thousands of dollars he raised, but the allegations distracted her campaign just as it prepared to ramp up for the intense post-Labor Day stretch.

The campaign announced Wednesday it would return $23,000 in contributions that Hsu made to her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to HillPac.

On Thursday, Obama’s campaign said he would give to charity the $2,000 Hsu contributed to his 2004 Senate campaign and the $5,000 Hsu gave to his political action committee, Hopefund. Hsu’s $43,700 in donations to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $2,500 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also will go to charity, both groups announced Thursday..

Source: NY Post

Source: Newsmax on 8/2/99

Gennifer Flowers broke one of the most powerful of all media taboos Monday night when she unequivocally called her former lover, the President of the United States, a murderer.

The most famous of all pre-presidential Clinton paramours also insisted that had she not protected herself by going public with her story of a twelve-year affair with the then-Arkansas Governor, she would have been killed. Appearing on CNBC’s "Hardball" to discuss Hillary Clinton’s bombshell Talk magazine interview about her husband’s philandering, Flowers was asked by host Chris Matthews if she thought Mrs. Clinton’s renewed victim status would help her win the New York Senate race.

FLOWERS: Well, in the first place I hope that she does not succeed at becoming a United States Senator from New York. I think that would be a travesty. We’ve had enough of these people; these criminals, these liars, these murderers. We need to get them out of political office, please.

MATTHEWS: Murderers?

FLOWERS: Well, there is a Clinton death list. If anyone would like to go to my website and take a look at it…

MATTHEWS: Well, we have your website here - www.genniferflowers.com. But what will they find if they go there in terms of murder? I didn’t know that one.

FLOWERS: Well, there are a number of deaths associated with Bill Clinton and his administration and his operatives. I would just suggest that they go on and take a look at it.

MATTHEWS: Do you believe that the President ordered the killing of anyone?

FLOWERS: I believe that he did. And I believe that I wouldn’t be sitting here talking with you today had I not become high profile as I did. Even though I didn’t do it on purpose, it saved my life.

Matthews challenged Flowers to cite "one hard case" of Clinton ordering a murder. Flowers named Luther "Jerry" Parks, the onetime chief of campaign security in 1992 who was gunned down execution style nine months after Clinton entered the White House.

Parks’ wife Jane and son Gary claim that he was building a dossier on Clinton’s private life, which was stolen shortly before his murder. Gary Parks has told reporters, "I believe my father was killed to protect Bill Clinton’s political career."

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney focused Friday on stopping illegal immigration and keeping Washington out of increased health care coverage.

During a morning campaign stop in Aiken, Romney said he doesn’t want the federal government to take over providing health care for the nation’s uninsured.

"Don’t have ‘Hillary Care,’" Romney said, referring to his favorite Democrat target, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The former Massachusetts governor said he doesn’t want to "have the guys who ran the Katrina cleanup" in charge of health care. He said he’d leave it up to states to design their own systems.

Romney had several stops planned in this early voting state Friday, and some were to take him through counties with some of South Carolina’s largest immigrant populations.

Romney said he’d help stop illegal immigrants by sanctioning employers that give them paychecks, and oppose so-called sanctuary cities that give illegal immigrants housing and other benefits.

Source: Yahoo