9/29/2007, 2:20 pm

Music by Burt Bacharach
Lyrics by Hal David and Laika the Space Dog
Unforgettable performance by Hillary Clinton and the All-Hsu Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnzTgUc5ycc
Do you know the way to Mandalay
Do you know the way to Mandalay?
Hsu's back from Hong Kong. I may go wrong and lose my way.
Do you know the way to Mandalay?
Roulette, cards, and broads on Hill's tab at Mandalay.
Bundling is the laundering way
Jump bail, skip town and run real far.
In a week, maybe two, they'll forget who you are
Weeks turn into years. how quick they pass
And Hsu came back and no one cared
Hill's campaign staff had a Vegas blast
Do you know the way to Mandalay?
Hsu's got a ton of cash. there'll be a place where I can play
I got drunk and stoned at Mandalay.
I'm going back to find some OPM* at Mandalay.
Fame and fortune are a magnet
They can pull you far away from home
And if you get caught you're all alone.
Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are, Hill's not your friend
You board Amtrak and ride away
They've got lots of slots at Mandalay
Do you know the way to Mandalay?
Gonna play Blackjack at Mandalay..
__________________
* OPM = other people's money
BACKGROUND:
(From the KGB files)New York Post: Members of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign staff got a nice payoff last year for their work to get her re-elected - a trip to Las Vegas funded by her fugitive former fund-raiser.
According to The Los Angeles Times, Hsu - who raised more than $850,000 for Clinton before being jailed last month on charges related to an investment scheme - treated the senator's campaign staff to several days at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, complete with free show tickets and dinners at posh restaurants. Doyle was accompanied by two junior staffers and a New York-based fund-raiser, the report said.
In April 2006, Hsu provided a hotel stay in Las Vegas for two other campaign workers. Doyle also received a coveted and pricey designer handbag from the disgraced moneyman, the newspaper said. But she returned it.
The red-faced Clinton camp insists there was nothing illegal about the trip, according to the article, and stressed that Hsu never received any legislative favors in return for his generosity.
Clinton last week returned the $850,000 Hsu raised, but not before taking a political beating on the fund-raising fiasco.
Hsu went on the lam a couple of weeks ago after missing a California bail hearing, but was arrested in a Colorado hospital after witnesses said he was behaving erratically aboard a train bound for Chicago.
Hsu remains locked away in a Colorado jail.
The Clinton cash came from about 260 individual donors Hsu brought into the Clinton fold, some of whom never knew they were contributing to the campaign. Hsu also contributed at least $330,000 to state Democratic candidates and state party committees and ballot initiatives during the 2004 and 2006 elections.
LA Times: