Clinton seeks help repaying debt
While Barack Obama announced the setting for their unity rally, Hillary Clinton today asked her supporters for a little financial help.
In the email to loyalists, she directed them to an Internet video in which thanks them for their support, talks about her campaign's historic accomplishments, and praises Obama, who bested her for the nomination.
Next to the video on the website page is this message, "You and Hillary can write the next chapter of America's history together. By helping us pay off our campaign debt, you're not just helping Hillary elect a Democratic president and grow our majority in Congress. You're making it possible for her to work as hard as she can on the issues we care about."
In the report filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission, Clinton reported owing about $10 million to vendors as of May 31, and also having loaned her own campaign nearly $12.2 million. During May, as she fought to stay in the race, her campaign ran a deficit. She raised about $12.6 million, loaned herself $2.2 million -- but spent more than $19 million.
have barack ohama help her pay for it.
Boo hoo, you expect us to feel sorry for you cause you can't manage your money?
You're part of the ruling elite, let them pay for it!
Let her figure out a way to pay off her extravagance in running her campaign! I think it serves her right!
WHY SHOULD ANYONE HELP, THAT IS THE CHANCE YOU TAKE RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. EVERYONE DONATED ENOUGH DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
America, what are we waiting for?
Our Hillary is asking us to put our loyalty on the line and
make a contribution towards the debt she incurred on our
behalf, battling against all odds. She showed the nation
that she cared about the forgotten 80% of the population
the majority of American citizens who voted for her and
who need her to continue to put their interests ahead of
the movers and the shakers. There is no way that she
will tolerate genocide of the 80% of the U.S. population
that were being swept under the rug by Howard Dean
and Nancy Pelosi. The cat is out of the bag and we
have to step up to the plate just as she did, we have
to be "grass root-y" just like Obama's people are grass
root-y" and send her a little sump'n sump'n so that she
can draw breath. A stitch in time saves nine folks, and
it's time. We don't have thread for nine, so just do it!
Jesus will make a way, wait and see. O yes he will.
Alice Wolf.
My G--, to think we even considered this candidate to MANAGE the US economy? Why didn't she just give the money to charity? All about ego...the same as O...why doesn't someone tell him this is not about winning a sporting event? It's about the ability to represent AMERICA, not the self.
So she's asking her supporters to bail her out because of her ignorance that she wouldn't see the writing on the wall. That's just crazy talk, I'm glad Obama made the nomination.
Why is she asking the little people to pay her back? Doesn't she have much more than we do?
If all the people who supported her during the primaries would donate just $10 this debt could be wiped away. (18 million people X $10) that should do it!
gee, Billary only had income of $109 million between 2000- 2007. I just cant wait to get out my check book.
glad that she's not the nominee. The way she ran the campaign eerily resembled the way this gov't is run - on borrowed money.
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glad that she's not the nominee. The way she ran the campaign eerily resembled the way this gov't is run - on borrowed money.
Unbelievable, Talk about gall.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!1!!
bull......when I go into debt no one else bails me out...she and her husband are multimillionairs and pay off their own bills
While I certainly don't like that woman, and do NOT want to see much more about her and her husband, all you people who do like her should cough up and help settle the debt. Then let her fade away, to concentrate on what she does best...no, I'm not gonna say anything negative now, heh heh
nice, I overspent on a campain that was over months ago, but can you give me some money? Seriously? Did you ever watch John Kline and his amazing map of Truth? You don't see Mitt sending out videos. This is stupid, thank goodness Barack won, now if he wants to be president PLEASE don't pick her as VP, he will loose me and millions more that dislike this stuff.
She can afford to pay it herself. She stubbornly stayed in the campaign knowing little hope of winning, so she alone should bear the debt burden. Hope people are smart not to donate money.
How pathetic, you know her and Bill probably have a quarter billion dollars in some off shore bank account from all their shady business dealings. But of course they spin it as some noble cause to get poor people to settle the campaign debt from their poorly run, top heavy and very negative campaign.
You would be a fool not to think of that after a bitter fight for the primary. Barack needs those votes and Hillary needs that cash. It is entirely up to Hillary's voters if they feel confortable using Obama's campaign as a proxy to help Hillary pay off her debts. As Obama supporter, I would not mind that Obama uses the campaign cash to help Hillary if he thinks that it is a strategy to win election in november. Afterall donors have a little to say as far as how the money is used as long as it is not misused. The financial support is to help him become elected, if Hillary is a factor in his electability then so be it.
Don't worry Hillary special interest has all our food money gas, and mortage money and they paid your bills... they never intend to give our money back to us and you should not worry about it
just like a women spend spend spend lol
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL FISCAL RESPOSIBILITY,SOUNDS TO ME THAT SHE MANAGED HER CAMPAIGN THE WAY SHE WOULD HAVE MANAGED THE COUNTRY'S BUDGET.YES I KNOW I'M YELLING.I would like to see a political race
that was not bought,one where the people ran their race on a shoestring budget not one that rivals some third world countries national budgets.
What a stupid Clinton.....
Sure, go ahead and ask. I feel really bad that a wealthy egomaniac decided to spend more money to make McCain look better, so I would love to donate - NOT!
You play, you pay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ask or tell Bill to hit the circuit and make the $400,000+ with his BS. Or do it yourself like most working people in debt. Possibly some cattle futures.
The gall to ask your lemmings to pay your bills for your political appetite, I don't think so.
Move back to Arkansas where you really belong and things are more affordable, You could write another book, or ask Burkle for a swing loan. Or you could get a JOB as a lawyer.
Hillary's request for others to pay for her campaign, is stereotypical female bahavior. She demands rights, power, and special privliges, yet carefully aviods responsibility, all the while expecting others to foot the bill. Her feminist strategy fits nicely with the liberal doctrine to transfer wealth from those who earn it to those who don't. This expectation to have rights without responsibility and to play without pay, is exactly the decay that is ruining our country.
If Hillary wants to be President, then she needs to pay the price and earn the right and the respect first. She and all other women can demand all they want. However, until women pay the same price men pay to have what men have, women don't deserve equality or the special status they now have. If Hillary and her cohorts want respect, then earn it. In the mean time, shut up.
Hillary proudly shows the working folk that being up to your ears in debt is perfectly acceptable. The role model she is, she's like a addicted Atlantic City gambler huddled at the craps table at 4:am, hoping to emerge from from a string of bad luck, slowly losing her friend's and family's funds.
Yet she knows her supporters are like ignorant and naive lemmings unknowingly and unwittingly heading to the precipice.
Having not officially bowed out, she still thinks she has a chance to win the only way she knows how - waiting in the wings for something terrible to happen to Obama. She gave herself away with the Freudian slip when she stupidly spoke of Kennedy.
It feels dirty having her as my Senator. May she follow her husband down the slow spiral path to her much deserved final destruction. (I mean destination....)
Hillary should just ask any of the millions of Americans whose jobs she sent off to India and China to step up to the plate and pay for her poor judgment. Unfortunately for Hillary, voters have a better memory than she does. Even brain dead Ted Kennedy recognized that she was a sure loser. With all of her fundraisers (except Bab Farmer) in Federal Prison she will just have to sell a few hundred thousand H1-B visas to Indian body shops to get her money back.
Hmmm...
If she buried herself in debt while campaigning for the democratic presidential nomination, did she consider how she might pay the debt, even if she did win the nomination? What value does she place on fiscal responsibility?
Was she hoping for a windfall as the first female president? First first spouse elected to the presidency?
Maybe she can write a book about it...
It's amazing to me, how three of America's most influintial leaders can( with a straigt face) proclaim their love and concern for their country, while spending a collective $1 billion dollars on nothing but a campaign. Most of which.......... Is spent on cheap shot propaganda, fuel for transportation, and so on and so forth. So as for Clinton begging for more money to repay what she's already squandered away, she should be on her own. And for Obama........ Did you know how many American school systems are in dire need of fianaccing, how many American children are starving? Yet you, Obama need an estimated $ .25 billion to run a camp? My challenge to all candidates in the next election.......... Fund it yourself, and if you feel compelled to host fundraisers, give the proceeds to the American people. After all to date each candidate could have filled every Americans gas tanks twice on the millions they've raised.
I have no problem helping Hillary pay off her debt.
But, I do not want my monies going to the Obama campaign.
I have asked for clarification and await a response from her campaign.
Money is too tight for us not to know where it is going and for what purpose.
I have no intention of supporting the DNC.
It's one thing to get screwed; it's still another to pay for it!
The multi-millionaire Clinton's want the blue collar, uneducated, laboring class to help her folly for the first women to be president. What has become of the class of intelligent, schooled and well read good ol' citizen.
The ones up to their ass in debt, and HIll and Bill with an annual income of
$millions, secret service, perks and all their boot licking amigos like Ron Burkle, want the x-middle class and some class of x-friends, Streisand and pals, to bail them out. I'm going back to church!
too bad. if she got out when she was supposed to, she would have had so much debt. she continued to run for herself. i would be insulted it barak obama helps pay off her debt. she's responsible. let her pay or her supporters pay.
Hillary, you got to pay the cost to be the boss, girl. And... maybe that's why you're not the nominee and the guy who did pay is?
Actually, Senator Clinton does not expect help in paying back the money she personally donated to her campaign. She is asking for help to pay the $10 million to vendors. It is your choice to help or not. I chose to help. That is MY personal choice. You may choose not to. THAT is YOUR personal choice.
Senator Clinton helped her opposition in the NY Senate race to pay off his campaign debt...it is not uncommon. She also is one of the largest fund-raisers on the hill for OTHER candidates.
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