Desperate Democrats Haul Out Old News To Disparage President Bush

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[Retired Chemist]

WASHINGTON

[Torie]

he had sold $848,560 of Harken stock on June 22, 1990, just weeks before the company filed a quarterly report revealing that it had hemorrhaged $23 million during that period. Bush had sold his stock for $4 a share

Yes, that would be illegal if Bush knew that when he sold, and it was not public knowledge, despite any subsequent stock price recovery after the interim dip. That would be a classic insider trade. A more cautious man would have sold coincident with the 10Q. But is there any evidence Bush knew?

[Howlin]

He quotes TALK MAGAZINE? What an insult. As I told mombonn, watch Brit's rerun; those guys went nuts over there.

And btw, a year after Bush sold his stock the stock went through the roof!

[Howlin]

You are totally unreliable as a poster.

[Miss Marple]

I agree with you 100%.

And have you noticed the missing Robert Rubin, boy genius of Wall Street? Where IS Mr. Rubin? It seems lik he should want to go on some talk shows, but alas, he is MIA!

[Reagan Man]

You're a pathetic piece of gutter trash!

[montag813]

I respect Bush's ability to make a bundle despite his obvious lack of business acumen.

However you get it, so long as it is ethical, is fine with me.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

You will be hard pressed to find anyone, other than Fred Barnes,Brian York and yourself,reporting the 8 dollar/share figure. Do you think the NYT will revisit the cattle futures scandal??

[Reagan Man]

Guess you like humping on the leg of Democrat propaganda.

[Mr. Jeeves]

He sold at $4 and it went to $8 in 15 months. Yep some insider that Dubya.

You silenced rdavis84 very nicely. Well done.

[PhiKapMom]

Here is the chronology history of Whitewater:

1992
The Clinton presidential campaign gathers information on Whitewater and Madison Guaranty. A report commissioned by the campaign claims the Clintons lost $68,000 on Whitewater, an estimate later adjusted down to somewhat over $40,000.

The Federal Resolution Trust Corp., investigating causes of Madison's failure, sends a referral to the Justice Department that names the Clintons as "potential beneficiaries" of illegal activities at Madison.

January 1993
Clinton's first term as president begins.

May 1993
White House fires seven employees in the travel office, possibly to make room for Clinton friends. An FBI investigation of the office ensues, allegedly opened under pressure from the White House to justify the firings.

June 1993
Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster files three years of delinquent Whitewater corporate tax returns.

July 1993
Foster is found dead in a Washington area park. Police rule the death a suicide. Federal investigators are not allowed access to Foster's office immediately after the discovery, but White House aides enter Foster's office shortly after his death, giving rise to speculation that files were removed from his office.

September 1993
First of three meetings in which Treasury Department officials tip off Clinton aides about the progress of the RTC investigation.

October 1993
RTC's criminal referral is rejected by Paula Casey, U.S. attorney in Little Rock and former law student of Bill Clinton.

December 1993
The White House agrees to turn over Whitewater documents to the Justice Department, which had been preparing to subpoena them. These documents include files found in Foster's office.


January 1994
Attorney General Janet Reno names New York lawyer and former U.S. attorney Robert B. Fiske Jr. as special counsel to investigate the Clintons' involvement in Whitewater. Fiske announces he will also explore a potential link between Foster's suicide and his intimate knowledge of the developing Whitewater scandal.

[PhiKapMom]

Thought this might interest you!!

Hillary Clinton Futures Trades Detailed
By Charles R. Babcock
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 27, 1994; Page A01


Hillary Rodham Clinton was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a $12,000 investment, in her first commodity trade in 1978 although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time, according to trade records the White House released yesterday.

The computerized records of her trades, which the White House obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, show for the first time how she was able to turn her initial investment into $6,300 overnight. In about 10 months of trading, she made nearly $100,000, relying heavily on advice from her friend James B. Blair, an experienced futures trader.

The new records also raise the possibility that some of her profits -- as much as $40,000 – came from larger trades ordered by someone else and then shifted to her account, Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Merc who reviewed the records for the White House, said in an interview. He said the discrepancies in Clinton's records also could have been caused by human error.


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from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-srv/politics/special/whitewate r/stories/wwtr940527.htm

[PhiKapMom]

That is so kind of you to help them out!!! LOL!!!!!

[olliemb]

Thanks for the numbers and the references.

[deport]

Bryan York did an article in The American Spectator entitled "George's Road to Riches" June 1999 which did a fairly good job or putting a lot of this together. Unfortunately it's not online at their web site as they archieves don't go back that far at this time.

[Dales]

Who needs proof when you can use innuendo and demagoguery?

Of course, the public has generally shown a remarkable lack of interest in listening to political posturing from the dissenting side in recent years. Reagan was the teflon President. Conservatives (like me and like most of us here, I would imagine) were frustrated constantly that the public kept giving Clinton a pass.

I think the Democrats are going to find the same lack of traction.

[liberallarry]

Yes but it's been in the news ever since - as well as everything else that the Clintons' have done, or are supposed to have done, that doesn't appeal to their enemies.

Politicians are always treated that way. That's part of the game. If you want to play you must have a really thick skin. Nixon's biggest weakness was that he couldn't handle that kind of - often unfair - criticism.

[VOA]

What a hoot - they KNOW how lame this is. Why else would they trot it out at the beginning of a LONG weekend?

By Monday, it will be SO September 10th!

I hope you are right.
Callers to a number of talk radio shows here in Los Angeles are trying to
"pump" this story.

You, I and about 99% of freerepublic.com can recognize it as a lame campaign tactic...

unfortunately a lot of sheeple will fall hard for it.

[ladyinred]

I hate RATS
I hate RATS
I hate RATS

[Guillermo]

Whitewater hasn't been in the news for years.

[liberallarry]

Please.

Articles are posted on this site (and on this thread) all the time blaming the Clintons for almost everything.

Hell, many people are still refighting the Civil War.