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Come on. Replace "right wing" with "liberals", "Clinton' with "Bush", "WSJ" with "NYT", and you've got the generic Freerepublic response to almost any anti-Bush/Rove accusation. If the WSJ story proves to be true, Clinton screwed up and she'll have to make it right.

Essayist, how is she going to make it more right? The money has been returned...there's nothing else for her to do.

so it is no surprise that it was the WSJ

seriously. 'The Wall Street Journal noticed that one of Hillary Clinton's biggest donors was a family that lived in a single story home near the San Francisco airport.'

they were tracking down donors.

"The adults." That's funny. It only takes a few minutes perusal of the level of dialogue on conservative sites as compared to liberal sites to see who the adults are. Joshblows, go back to wizbang. You're in way over your head here.

I'm not defending her - quite honestly I'm no fan but I can only imagine the caliber of donors our closeted, immoral republicans have. If only someone would sink their journalistic chops into that sink hole, imagine what bats would fly out.

"they were tracking down donors."

This used to be called investigative journalism. Hilary, like Bill, has a habit of very shady fundraising. Namely, their fundraisers are either crooks themselves, or they are laundering donations from other people and donating in their own name; the likely reason being that the laundered donations are not from a legal sources.

I'm reminded particulary of Algore raising a chunk of cash from Buddhist nuns.

I'd like to work up some outrage here but I simply don't care. Seriously, the Republicans have so lowered the bar that I don't give a shit about this stuff.

Did Mr. Hsu waterboard someone or rape a 7-year-old to intimidate his parents? No? Then he is quantitatively less corrupt and evil than your local Republican Congressman who allows such behavior with a wind a nod and a wink.

Vote for Hillary. She doesn't rape 7 year olds.

Sounds like a winning strategy, jimbo.

Is it just a coincedence that Mr. Hsu is also a foreign born Chinese? The previous Clinton fundraising scandal was all based on PRC officials (many from the Army / military intel) funneling money to Clinton.

This is why the story resonates in a way it would not if it was just a homegrown millionaire/criminal pumping money into Hillary's campaign.

I'm amazed that collectively Democrats are going to nominate this woman, given all her baggage. It's not only that this will effect her ability to win - and promises to deliver another bruising 'all character' campaign - there is also the matter that she and Bill have demonstrated horrible ethics.

"Better than Bush" has to be one of the lamest excuses for a campaign slogan one can immagine, particularly coming from people who rate Bush as low as an earthworm.

"...he lured investors in with promises of big bucks from China (in that case, the product was latex gloves), even delivering on early, smaller deals before failing to come through once investors were in waist deep."

This guy sounds to me exactly what the GOP would call a successfull entrepeneur. So the guy's a grifter, we have one (or more) in the White House, what's illegal about that? You gotta take the big risks to make the big wins, right? Isn't that how the mantra goes? I'm sure GOP has legions of characters that would fit Mr. Hsu's profile.

Guys, "Clinton did it first..." or "The Republicans are raping 7 year olds and waterboarding old ladies," are not good arguments. Anytime your only defense is to focus on the flaws of the opposition, you are in trouble.

The Clintons have a history of problems in the areas of fundraising. If you read the comments on this thread, you'll pick up on a lot of it. Is this the best nominee that we can come up with? Hillary is the last, best hope of the GOP to retain the White House.

The Clinton approach is to make a living off of being a moderate to conservative democrat who doesn't make the corporate masters nervous and is fierce in protecting Israel.

Doing checks on Chinese individuals is tough because apart from a western name Chinese also use complete Chinese names. It is easy for them to have two names which don't come up in routine checking. The problems is that all Presidential campaigns attract fund raiser of dubious reputation. If one can resist the knee jerk response to the Clintons one will find that Gore, both Bushe, Reagan and Nixon attracted some unsavoury characters. So lets drop the selective indignation. Obama has returned money too. Let me tell you what surprises me: this man paid a $2m cash bail in LA and took a train. In his latest court appearance in Colorado the judge set bail at $5m. What gives. Surely he is a flight risk and remand is called for.

Final point: Hsu was on the Board of Governors of the New School and a major fund raiser. Bob Kerrey supported him when the story hit the headlines; and after he got more info he retracted. So shouldn't the New School have been careful about the money this man brought in. Or do they get a pass.

Looks like the WSJ is in its standard anti-Clinton mode. I just hope the Hillary camps fire back. This time round the press should not get off with it smears.

Chris: this is precisely what I had in mind. You assume Clinton cannot fight back. Just hold your judgement for a spell and see what happens. If you take some time and look at Rupert Murdoch's modus operandi you will understand what I mean. When the Chinese got pissed off with the BBC Murdoch's stopped broadcasting their service to China. Yep. No problem. When Tony Blair went into his first election Murdoch's papers backed Labour and gave the Conservatives a collective fit. Rupert has already contributed to the Clinton campaign and hosted a fund raiser. He has good antenna. If Hillary wins the primary watch what happens to the WSJ's coverage. Oh: don't kid yourself. Rupert fires editors: his track record speaks for itself. Don't think for a moment that the WSJ will get in the way of Rupert's own need for political support. Rupert back winners, not political parties.

Don't rule out the possibility that this "scandal" is a setup by the GOP/right-wing to embarrass Democrats to try to balance their own (GOP) problems of having their vast corruption exposed. Very significant is the source of Hsu's money. That would explain much(perhaps everything), if we could only find out the truth.