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Hillary Houdini

By Dr. Bob - Sep 12th, 2007 at 2:40 am EDT

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Hillary Clinton's announcement on September 10th, 2007 that she is returning $850,000 collected by recently apprehended fugitive financier Norman Hsu, (prolific pro-Hillary bundler-fundraiser), to the individual donors, whom she then invites to donate the money back to her, is a prestidigition worthy of the Great Houdini. Before your very eyes, watch as these controversial funds disappear into thin air and then magically reappear morphed into legitimate contributions. The illusion is amazing!
The scandal here is not so much that Hsu is a Clinton financial associate being investigated by the FBI, (familiar fodder for any future Rebulican attacks), for election law violations, it's what Hillary Clinton is doing right now with the donors. Initially solicited by Hsu, it is unknown whether the donors would have given to Clinton in the first place,(in fact there is some suspicion that the funds my be laundered), and now she tells them that they can re-donate the money back to her. Also, what makes this sum just too large to be given to charity, as she did with the first 23,000 revealed the previous week? Nonprofits could use really big checks too. Once presented in a bundled bouquet proudly displayed by Hsu and the Clinton campaign, donations by one name instantly vanish, and then suddenly reassemble by another name at the snap of her fingers. Watch closely and don't blink as you will miss this magical manipulation and triangulation occur under the bright lights of our political stage.
Could this slight of hand be so quick and slick as to go unnoticed by the American voter? Will this grand illusion of the Clinton slight of hand fool voters enough to nominate the Great Hillary as her party's candidate for president? Will the press yet again look away as they catch a glimse of Bill, the man behind the curtain back stage, and ignore the whole act? Can Democrats again be deceived into believing that this mirrored image is real, or will the trap door on which she is standing finally be released and the stage emptied in a puff of political smoke? Be sure to catch the show on the road, beginning January 2008, in Iowa and beyond.

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