Footing Hillary’s Bill
Given previous events surrounding Geraldine Ferraro earlier in the campaign, I somehow thought we wouldn’t be hearing any more from her. But she surfaced again this week with a new plan for Senator Clinton and her nearly $20 million dollar campaign debt.
Geraldine Ferraro has a plan for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to recoup her sizable campaign debt: Have Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) fundraisers pick up the tab.
After a long primary season, the Clinton campaign’s expenditures have far exceeded the amount of donations it has received so far, and the campaign has accumulated debt of more than $19 million, according to campaign finance reports. Much of that debt consists of unpaid salaries and bills to vendors.
When Hillary Clinton gave her non-concession speech on Tuesday night, she took a moment to slip into third person speech and asked, “What does Hillary want?” More and more reports are accumulating which indicate that Hillary may have known exactly what pound of flesh she expects in return for her gracious party loyalty and sincere efforts to bring her army of voters into the Obama camp. It would seem that she wants Obama to name her as the vice president and to pay off all the bills she ran up in her own run.
I wonder if perhaps she would like Obama Girl to stop by every week to give her a pedicure as well?
4 Responses to “Footing Hillary’s Bill”
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I am not paying hillary's bill. She was the one who pig headedly wanted to run it to the end. Altho considering the closeness, she was mathmatically out of it some time ago and should have realized what she was doing. 20 Million dollars! Good lord. If Obama wants to slash his own fundraising go for it, but who is going to donate to his campaign knowing that its going to pay off Hillary's stubborness.
Perhaps Ms. Ferraro has already sent in her check?
Ridiculous.
At the end of the day, though, Obama can not afford to have Hillary as an enemy.
Seeing that Obama is all about being gracious and not throwing people in the garbage, the minute they offend in some quarter, I think it would be quite in character for him to accede to some degree. To what degree, I don't know, and it's for Obma to decide.
He had the votes at the DNC meeting to get a better deal on splitting the MI delegates, but he accepted the less favorable deal becuse he recognized the importance of tamping down animosities.
It is often more important to see beyond the particular issue of the day and to think long term.