Trouble in Donkey-land

[Jim]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/politics/09debt.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A prominent donor to Senator Barack Obama recently sent an e-mail plea to other supporters, asking them — for the sake of Democratic unity — to write checks to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to help retire her $23 million in campaign debt.

Some of the replies are unprintable, given the coarse language, the donor said. A sampling of others included:

“Why would I help pay off debts that Hillary amassed simply to keep damaging Senator Obama?”

“Gas prices are up, the markets are in turmoil, my kid’s fall tuition bill is coming soon. Writing checks to politicians I don’t like is not at the top of my list.”

“Not a penny for that woman. Or her husband. Or — god forbid — Mark Penn,” a reference to Mrs. Clinton’s former senior strategist, whose firm is still owed several million dollars for work that included aggressive attacks on Mr. Obama.

As Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton prepare for their first joint fund-raisers to benefit the Obama campaign, in New York City on Wednesday and Thursday, their two camps are straining under the weight of continued resentments, recriminations and feelings that remain raw since the long primary battle.

Mr. Obama has asked his top donors to help raise money for her debt, and so far they have come up with less than $100,000 (though more in pledges), Clinton campaign officials said — a “paltry sum,” in the words of one.

Several Obama donors said in interviews that they were balking at Mr. Obama’s call for help because they believed Mrs. Clinton accumulated most of her debts after she had lost any mathematical chance of winning the nomination and was hanging on only in hopes of an Obama collapse. The idea of helping her now — and lining the pockets of Mr. Penn, a reviled figure in the Obama camp — is galling to them, they said, especially at a time when they say any available money should go to defeating Senator John McCain and the Republicans in November.

[RobJohnson]

“Gas prices are up, the markets are in turmoil, my kid’s fall tuition bill is coming soon. Writing checks to politicians I don’t like is not at the top of my list.”

 

Good stuff!

[Jim]

Eventually BHO is going to have to write a big check form HIS campaign account.  Thats going to go over like a lead balloon.  And I'll be laughing like a hyenna

[docstew]

can someone tell me how him "retiring her debt" when the majority of the debts are her loaning money to the campaign is not an out and out bribe for support?  yeah, that's changing the way the political game is played... 

[Jim]

can someone tell me how him "retiring her debt" when the majority of the debts are her loaning money to the campaign is not an out and out bribe for support?  yeah, that's changing the way the political game is played... 

Its tradition and actually a good one as it is a legitimate way to bury the hatchet. 
Nothing says serious like cash.