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'Hanoi' Jane Fonda Bankrolling Hillary
'Hanoi' Jane Fonda, whose anti-U.S. activities during the Vietnam war remain an anathema to most Americans, is helping to bankroll New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's reelection campaign. The woman who sat behind a North Vietnamese gun installation and pretended to shoot down American pilots donated the maximum - $2,000 - to Hillary's campaign coffers, the New York Daily News reports in Wednesday's edition. Earlier this year Fonda told Time magazine that she "hopes for a Hillary Clinton presidency." The politically radioactive actress had also been a sleepover guest at the Clinton White House. Mrs. Clinton has been struggling to reshape her image as pro-defense, with multiple visits to the troops in Iraq and boasts on her web site that she saved New York military bases from closure.
Story Continues Below But news of Fonda's support could complicate matters. "If Hillary wants us to think she supports the military - she can't afford to be seen taking money from 'Hanoi' Jane," one longtime Clinton-watcher told NewsMax. Links to Fonda proved toxic for Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign last year, when NewsMax published an authentic photo showing him standing near the left-wing actress at a 1970 anti-war demonstration in Pennsylvania. [A subsequent photo circulated on the Internet showing Fonda standing side-by-side with Kerry at a 1971 protest was doctored.] Reaction to the Kerry-Fonda photo was sharp. "Seeing this picture of Kerry with [Fonda] at anti-war demonstrations in the United States just makes me want to throw up," Rep. Sam Johnson - a former Vietnam POW - told the Washington Times. Sen. Kerry insisted that he barely knew his fellow protester, though both he and Fonda shared top posts in the group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Despite the photo flap, Fonda continued to openly campaign for the Massachusetts Democrat - organizing a voter registration drive for women that she and her partner in the effort, Eve Ensler, dubbed "Vagina's Vote." Ensler also has ties to Mrs. Clinton. She served on an exploratory committee when Hillary was pondering a run for the Senate in 1999.
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