Letters to the Editor
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Everything has it's time and place
Zoetrope, I am indeed calling you out for fundraising on a discussion board. A heartfelt thank you is better done in private, but more to the point, it's entirely irrelevant to this discussion. This isn't the place. Unless the goal is to encourage other people...
To the extent that it bears on the campaign, I couldn't resist making the obvious point. Thank you for noting the significance of private campaign funding however... While I in no way equate money with votes (if that were true Mitt Romney would be our leader!), I would urge you to look at the sources of money already spent. Obama's money came almost entirely from people like Diane, donating similar sums, while HRC larded up by maxing out big donors. Where I live (Ohio) she's been through twice, creating traffic problems while she speaks privately to groups of megarich donors, then it's back on the jet and outta here. I'm glad you're impressed that after maxing out her corporate sharehol...er stakeholders, she's lowered herself to asking regular people to keep her hopes alive. She burned through more money than anyone in history in 2007, and now shes' broke. Poor Hill.
If she runs the country like she runs her campaign we're doomed. She started off with an unbeatable hand, and has managed to play it to a draw! She had more money, more party support (still does in terms of endorsements), more name recognition, and more press opportunities than any candidate on either side. After blowing every opportunity, she (and her supporters) simply slide back into this victimhood BS. This Clinton tactic was already old in 2000. In 2008 it's just cynical and sad.