The Democrats' foreign fund-raising scandal has certainly singed some eyebrows, as well it should.
     After all, it's not every day that politicians take money from seedy sources. Most of the cash needed to run campaigns in the lavish style to which they have become accustomed usually comes from legitimate, hard-working individual U.S. citizens--not large corporations seeking small political favors.
     So the stories uncovering the DNC's improprieties during the 1996 campaign have come as every bit of a shock as the discovery by lawmakers of rampant nudity on the Net.
     The main revelations:
You-can-call-me Al Gore emerged from a fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple with $140,000 in walking-around money, which he immediately lost during a quick trip to Vegas. "Hey, it was like manna from heaven," the stoic Veep explained.
Certain FOB (Friends of Bubba), who happened to be of foreign origin and reportedly had long ties to Clinton back in Arkansas, gave his campaign lots of money. Officials of the Indonesia-based multinational Lippo (short for Lipposuction) Group (Corporate slogan: "Your loss is our gain!") said they made the contributions because they really, really liked the prez--not to mention Hillary was a major client.
John Huang, a former Lippo executive turned Democratic fund-raiser, was jettisoned from the campaign. The reason: He was raising too much money among Asian Americans, making other ethnic groups look like cheapskates.
Clinton campaign officials stood behind the fund-raising efforts, saying that with the president's lead in jeopardy of slipping below 30 points, the Democrats really, really needed the money.
Bobdole, while publicly lashing out at Clinton for taking the cash and remaining silent about the controversy, secretly wishes he had gotten as much moola...
      Oh, where will it all end?