That she wasn't able to get enough people to give her money for running an incompetent campaign is the best news the concept of capitalism has gotten in a while.
Joe Biden emailed me this morning asking for money to help clear Clinton's debt. You'll pardon me, I hope, but I find that really fucking obnoxious, the notion that as the economy worsens, Joe and Joanne Q. Public should provide a bailout for an individual's failed venture.
@Moff: I just read your comment and then my husband and I spent 5 minutes or so railing against the whole "money to retire Hilary's debt" thing. So thanks, it's been a while since we have railed.
@Moff: It makes perfectly good sense. She tried to bring Obama down through nasty lies and otherwise and hoping he be Kennedied so he should ask all of us to pony up so she can raise her millions to the state it was before she began her lowdown demolition derby.
They paid the entire campagin staff extra and let them keep their computers and there is STILL money left over? The only real option then is to convert it it into gold Krugerrands and buy a Scrooge McDuck style swimming vault.
@Iceland_Spar: Or those nifty "Barack Obama Inaugural Dollars Layered in 24-Karat Gold." Just $9.95 (plus S&H)! That's Washington-style accounting for you. [www.officialobamacoin.com]
Happily, most of Clinton's $7.5 million debt is to Mark Penn ($5.4M) and other political professionals -- not small vendors. And then there is the $13 million she lent herself: Gone, Baby, Gone. It's legally too late for her to repay herself, says The Times (print edition).
@hurleyburley: He wrote me yesterday, suggesting I host a "Change is Coming house party" - I think that means you're supposed to come over and give me some money.
@hurleyburley: Yeah... and at least some of those appeals talked about the DNC going broke helping elect Obama. Hope Plouffe gets his own emails. (I did order a cool black coffee mug, though.)
@hurleyburley: I know, and I totally maxed out for Obama... and they are still asking for $$$ for the Hated Hillary, cupcakes for the Inauguration, etc.
@fileunder: One of the most outrageous chutzpah incidents on record hit the Miss Manners or one of them column once. A new couple in a condo project sent out invites to all the neighbors to their own welcoming party, with a note on the invitation that cash was acceptable as a housewarming gift.
Miss Manners or one of them replied about how gauche it is to be so venal outside of religion or politics.
@Bunsy: She's Magoo in a pants suit, her metier is pander, slander, and lies. You may as well contribute to Republicans. Reminds me of the years when Texas Democrats suddenly became Republicans without one single solitary alteration in character or method.
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But still, immensely glad/relieved he won.
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