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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 20:48:34 -0400
From: ML/NJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I asked this question some time ago. I asked it because it has
been clear to me that the Chinese Communists actively supported
Bill Clinton in 1992 when he was criticizing President Bush for
being to close to the Chinese.
Today the TomPaine.com folks came close to addressing this in an
op-ed advertisement in the New York Times. The following is the
text of their ad from:
http://www.tompaine.com/features/2000/06/05/index.html
followed by a note I sent them commenting on the ad.
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OUR NYT OP AD: Text
IN THE BACKSEAT WITH A BILLIONAIRE: A Story Told Eight Years
Later
The TomPaine.com Staff .
Picture this: A meeting in the backseat of a limousine. A
presidential candidate and a mysterious billionaire -- an
Indonesian with ties to the Chinese government.
The billionaire promises one million dollars for the candidate's
fall campaign. What he wants in exchange ... the audience is left
to imagine.
A scene from a movie about presidents and power? Unfortunately
not. This meeting really happened. The candidate: Bill Clinton.
The billionaire: James Riady.
The date of this encounter makes it interesting. Not 1996 -- the
campaign renowned for its Asian money scandal. This meeting
happened four years earlier, in 1992, and is related in a new
edition of Michael Isikoff's book, Uncovering Clinton.
Billionaire Riady made good on his word. Within days of the
conversation he arranged the first round of donations.
Eventually, his family and associates gave $986,000 -- enough to
make them the largest donors to the Democratic Party that year.
Bigger than the trial lawyers association. Bigger than the
teachers' unions.
It's astonishing that we hear this story eight years after the
fact. It was a major event in a hard-fought campaign covered by
thousands of journalists eager to become the next Woodward or
Bernstein.
Yet not one uncovered the true source of the largest donations
made that year to the Clinton-Gore team. Now think of the
coverage lavished on Elian or O.J.
No less astonishing -- we still don't know what return Riady
asked for or earned for his investment. We may never know.
It makes us wonder. ... What promises are flying now between
political patrons and the cash-hungry candidates who want to be
"public" servants?
Will we have to wait eight years to find out? Will we ever know?
This week at TomPaine.com -- In the Back Seat with a Billionaire.
Featuring excerpts from the new edition of Uncovering Clinton
(Three Rivers Press) and documents never before published.
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I've been seeing you NYT Op-ed ads and thinking I wanted to check
out what you had to say.
Today's ad finally caused me to look at you site.
The ad says a lot, but it doesn't say enough.
It omits an important historical fact. That is that Bill Clinton
accused George Bush of "coddling" the Chinese Communists during
that 1992. I agreed with that sentiment and it was one of the
reasons I voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. George Bush did seem
to have a soft spot for the Chinese Communists.
The question I would ask is: WHAT DID THE COMMUNIST CHINESE KNOW
ABOUT BILL CLINTON IN 1992 THAT AMERICAN VOTERS DID NOT KNOW.
It just doesn't make sense that they would dump money into the
campaign of someone who was campaigning for a harder line against
them. They already had a relatively friendly known quantity in
the White House and they helped to defeat him.
One other "historical" note. It wasn't just Riady. Charlie Trie
was apparently "cultivating" Clinton, while he was Arkansas
governor, as the operator of "that Chinese restaurant he liked so
much." (Hillary's words)
Methinks he is The Manchurian Candidate. (and remember: I voted
for him.)
ML/NJ
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