Ray Malone's Commentary

The more I look at Hillary's Hsu scandal the more clear it becomes. Norman Hsu is a con artist that should have been detected by anyone who had completed more than a six weeks of a major in political science before dropping out to do drugs and steal hubcaps for a living. But lets not describe Ohio's Senator Brown in this column.

What happened when Norman Hsu comes along and produces $850 thousand in bundled contributions for Hillary. What did Hillary do? Did she check up on Hsu to see if he were legit? There are two questions for every major contribution. Where did the money come from and what does the donor want. Hillary never asked either of those two questions. If she had she would never have accepted his money. No one in Hillary's campaign tried to contact any of Hsu's companies. If they had they would have learned he was not legit. Did she try to check out his public record? Had she done so she would have learned that he was an escaped felon.

When warned that Hsu might be a crook she defended him in no uncertain terms. Did she know he was a crook and therefore lied in his behalf? No way!!! Hillary is not the type that would go out on a limb for someone she knew was a crook.

Hillary did not think she was going out on a limb by defending Hsu. That means that a third rate con artist who had been convicted of a felony and run out of both the China and the USA was able to con Hillary Clinton in to believing him.. How dumb must Hillary be to be conned by an obvious con artist. What a super sized ego she must have to trust her own judgment enough to forgo a background check.

How stupid does one have to be to leave anything in a presidential race to chance. To leave things to a candidates own judgment.

Why would Hsu want to donate $850 thousand dollars to Hillary? Is that not obvious. A con man has to con people. What better way to con people than to be able to show pictures of you with a former president and perhaps a future president of the USA. Can't you hear him saying, "I am personal friends with th smartest woman in the world. I am actively engaged in her campaign.. Just look .. my name is on her web site..

How could a con man convince an investor that he was legit. Do you know anyone who would invest millions in a man's scheme, without checking him out? What if he could show he was a close friend to Bill and Hillary Clinton? That might make him seem legit. There is no way a Chinese guy named Hsu could fool the smartest woman in the world? Right? Well we all know he did.

Yes I think Norman Hsu raised a few thousands on his own, then donated them to Hillary and then used his relationship with the Clintons to con other people out of millions. He did give Hillary 850 thousand of the 40 million he took from his marks.. Giving Hillary less than 2 percent of his take seems to tell us what Hsu thinks of Hillary.

The question in my mind is if Norman Hsu could con Hillary out of her reputation for being smart, then how dumb is Hillary Clinton. I would say she is a lot dumber than George Bush. I would bet that Hsu is no where near the first con artist to try to con a presidential candidate. He may just be the first to succeed.

Early on political science students are taught that campaigns and especially its donors must be tested to be sure they are clean. What this tells us is Hillary goes on her own gut reaction. If she thinks someone is Ok then she does not need to check them out.

Does anyone but me see the danger of a president that makes big decisions based on gut reactions that have proven to be a total failure. It was the same gut reaction that lead to the Health Care debacle in 1993. She was told not to hold the health care meetings in private.. but she knew better. Hillary has always listened to her gut. and I submit her gut is full of excrement.

Anytime Hillary has had a chance to make a major decision she has blown it. Hillary is not anywhere near the smartest person in the world. She may be smarter than 99.9 percent of the media but she is dumber than a Chinese con artist that needed to be close to Hillary so people would not see through him.

Look at Hsu.. Look at him closely.. If Norman Hsu can easily con Hillary what could a real con artist like Iran's Ahmadinejad do with her?

If that does not scare you, i don't know what would.