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HT asked:


She heckled President Hu Jintao during a White House appearance this week. The below article says she was charged with willfully intimidating, coercing threatening and harassing a foreign official.

Is it just me or does that sound like something China would do? I think W was doing it to show China we’re on their side, and I think that’s nuts. No, scary.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/ap_on_go_pr_wh/hu_protester_22;_ylt=AnVyFiD9PKmt5dBXMQC6zJhPzWQA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
For the responses supporting the prosecution in the name of law & order, I’d be interested in hearing why simply removing her wasn’t enough, that it is right for the administration to go the extra step and actually prosecute her.

It’s that extra step — actually prosecuting her for offending or interrupting a politician — that I find indefensible. Sure, the President has got to be able to take her away, you’ve got to have some order. But once she has been taken away, you’ve already solved the problem. So what is to be gained by taking that extra step? The only purposes I can think of are (i) to make a point (show China we won’t stand for this kind of demonstration when they come to the White House) or (ii) make an example of her so noone else tries the same thing. Either purpose is, in my opinion, indefensible when all you have to do is remove the heckler.

Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:


It’s a modern-day “rags to riches” story. If you ever wondered why a person would put them through the rigors and the hell of an election, now you know. The Hill and Bill team didn’t own a home, had almost no net worth when they came to Washington in 1992. And for eight years they lived on a meager $350,000 a year. But, sicne leaving the White House, together they have eared $109,000,000.00! Cinton income is good baby!

On the same day that Hillary proposed creating a cabinet-level position devoted to ending poverty, Hillary Clinton and her husband reported earning more than $109 million over eight years in newly released tax data. Now we know the following-

>They paid $33,000,000 in taxes

>They made $30,000,000 off the book royalties

>They gave $10,000 to charties (all to their own!)

Campaign funding is such a delicate matter. So, now we don’t know.

The campaign released tax returns from 2000 through 2006 and gave highlights from their 2007 return. The Clintons have asked for an extension for filing their 2007 tax returns, citing the dissolution of a blind trust last year. The itemized earnings the Clinton campaign provided in its summary only added up to $94 million, leaving $15 million unaccounted for. Wonder why the $15,000,000 or thereabouts is left unknown? When it comes to the Clinton’s one has to wonder don’t they!