Trouble In Paradise
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Hillary Clinton | Kneel Before Zod | Let's You And Him Fight | Rooting For Injuries — Comments (8) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Now that the Democratic nomination contest is over, the effort to get the Clinton and Obama camps to sing from the same songsheet is getting a lot of attention. However, there are discordant notes:
Some Clinton supporters are grousing that Obama has yet to make the symbolic gesture of writing a check for $2,300, the maximum allowable campaign donation, to help retire her debt of over $12 million.
At her headquarters two weeks ago, a potluck dinner for women who had volunteered for Clinton turned into a forum in which many of her most loyal supporters expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the contest and with Obama, attendees said. And some of Clinton's aides said Obama's campaign had made only a perfunctory effort to hire Clinton staff members; the Clinton campaign payroll is ending for most employees in less than a week.
Obama's aides said that while he was prepared to help her pay off the debt, there was only so far he would go, given his campaign's own desire to raise record sums for the general election. In addition to the $12 million that Clinton owes to outside suppliers, she pumped more than $10 million of her own money into her campaign.
I actually thought that there would be a serious, comprehensive effort to help Clinton retire her campaign debt--if only to ensure that Clinton and her team would be fully on board in preparation for the general election campaign. Evidently not, or at the very least, the Obama people are not making this a priority. Of course, if they fail to keep Clinton supporters happy, there may very well be lots of problems down the road.
This will definitely be worth watching. I am sure that there will be a picture of unity at the end of all of this but the reality behind the scenes may be far, far different.
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I think he is expecting "lots of problems down the road" with the Clinton camp regardless, so why throw the money away?
Fortuna Favet Fortibus
That does become a self fulfilling prophecy.
*Oh come on read a book, its an obvious reference
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
You know the reference.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
but I don't get it either. But then again I read computer programming manuals as recreational reading.
I'll have to ask my soon-to-be-English-major son for some assistance...
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But this is just common cultural heritage.
It's like the weapons inventor with 64 pockets.
Or the smartypants that wanted payment for inventing chess in grain.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Doesn't surprise me. Strikes me that in the politics of yesteryear, you didn't so much as help the person you just defeated, you made sure to kick them once or twice while they were down. Just to reenforce who was boss.
Obama will help Clinton out, but it'll be quid pro quo. He needs her donors to raise the oodles of cash he desires. But, he's going to make her go through the dog and pony show first.