Letters to the Editor
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This proves it
Hillary Clinton will do ANYTHING to be elected, including behaving just like Mitt Romney and every other super-wealthy person who invests only in greater glory for him or herself. As opposed to those who use their wealth to endow the greater good of mankind by "giving," as Bill Clinton hypocritcally has exhorted the rest of us to do. Who knew Bill was stockpiling millions from outrageous speakers' fees to give to his wife and save his legacy? I thought he was donating his own money to all the worthy causes for which he has demanded others' support.
This does it for me. I don't want Hillary and Bill Clinton in the White House. They do not represent the America I know and love. They represent more of the same greed, self-indulgence, self-importance, it's-all-about-me attitude we've endured for the past 7-1/2 years. No more.
I was open to Hillary and reading her campaign blog and getting her e-mails, even though tending to prefer Obama. I donated to both of them. When I read of this $5-million with potentially more to come to make up for her diminishing support among regular people, I immediately unsubscribed. I'm giving her share of what little I can afford to give to Obama now. He is honestly gaining the support of ordinary Americans. It's hard for me to believe that all those backbone-of-America working class people who are said to prefer Hillary will continue to prefer her when they find out that she and her husband have become millionaires on the basis of speaking and writing -- about themselves.
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her senior staffers are now not getting paid
I'm stunned at how bad of shape her campaign is in financially. She's hurting on money badly. Her senior staffers are now working without a salary and that 5 million she loaned herself is mostly, if not all gone, on advertising this past Tuesday. She's asked for her supporters to donate $3 million in 3 days while Obama has gotten $2.2 million in 24 hours without trying hard. She's on the ropes and she needs to do everything she can to distance herself from Obama in a month or she just wont be able to carry on.
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A question...
How does a candidate "loan" money to his/her campaign. Does their Presidential committee have to pay them back at the end of the election season? Or is it just a wash at the end of the day?
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Where did Hillary get $5 Million???
This is not Bill's money; apparently it is Hillary's. Where did she get $5,000,000.00? From her parents? I am under the impression that her family were not so rich. She makes, what?, $150,000 per year from the Senate?
I like Hillary well enough, but I ain't got no $5 million. Where did she get it? I really want to know.
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Hillary feigning fallibility?
Isn't it possible that Clinton, the once inevitable nominee, the establishment candidate, the one who's accepting all the special interest money, is deliberately trying to change that perception, not out of necessity for money, but because they've realized that fallibility works for her?
That with decades of political experience, the Clinton machine is deliberately changing the story of Hillary based on what they see voters will fall for?
Did you ever think that one humanizing tear she shed in N.H. would carry so much power?
Isn't it suspect that after such a huge win in the New England states AND california, the campaign announce to all the media how she's "running out of money and her campaign manager will volunteer to work without taking a paycheck???
Are the bloggers really taking this at face value?
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Fiscally Responsible? HAH!!!
If Hillary can't run her own campaign without going into debt, how can we expect her to lead an entire country that's already trillions in the red?
I am not entirely convinced that this isn't another manipulative ploy from the Clinton campaign, but if she's blown over 30 million dollars by now, where did it all go? And, with most of her big money donors already maxed out, where will her new donations come from?
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internet comments to reflect reality?
Dunno about the rest of Obamaland, but hearing Clinton "self-financing" her campaign inspired me to send $22 to Obama.
Comments throughout the internet seem to indicate that other Obamaites had the same instinct.
Hillary may be getting more than she asked for.
Can't wait til the February fund-raising totals are in!
Barack the Vote!
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Context:
I have vague recollections that....
....a candidate is allowed to spend as much of their own wealth, re: Romney, Ross Perot (maybe Bloomberg)
....when leaving the White House, didn't the Clintons owe more $ after their legal defense than they were worth? A debt wiped out after a few years of speaking fees and the 7-figure advances for their post-White House books? And what are they worth now?
....Kerry got flack for spending his money because it was really Teresa Heinz money. Plus flack for getting a 2nd mortgage on his house to keep his campaign going.
I'm sorry, what where we kibutzing about again?
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Spin, Span, Spun
Don't despair, Clintonites! Maybe Mark Penn has some bright plan to wag the dog and spin...errr...win the nomination for Clinton yet -- he's got his best people working on it pro bono -- well, surely not (I mean, he is a Burson-Marsteller man, after all! They cash the checks before the ink dries and the bodies cool), but they're working on something! Salvation is just another conference call away, another PR attack or some bait-and-switch rhetorical mumbo-jumbo! And who knows, maybe Big Pharma and/or the American Association of Health Plans will dig into their pockets and loan her the money. China's got plenty of money to throw around -- wasn't a close Clinton associate affiliated with China? Charlie Trie, among others? The money will be found, don't worry. Big donors, big money. No worries!
Still, Obama seems to be managing the economy of his campaign just fine, while Clinton's apparently misplaced her box of IOUs from her various contributors, or else she's busy scribbling new ones on the back of stacks of unused campaign placards. I think the fealty-based community supporting Clinton were hoping she'd be their Queen Elizabeth I, but it's looking more and more like she's their Joan of Arc.