Message from Joe Biden: Help cancel Hillary's Campaign Debt...

[Triana]

(from my email)

President-elect Obama and I have been assembling our team, and we plan to hit the ground running next month.

We want to be ready to go, and that's why I'm asking you to help us honor an outstanding commitment we made during the election.

Our campaign pledged to help Senator Hillary Clinton -- one of the vital members of our team and our future Secretary of State -- retire her campaign debt. That's the money her campaign owes to the vendors across the country that make our political process possible.

Barack and I had the deepest respect for Hillary as an opponent on the campaign trail. Her undeniable intellect, talent, and passion strengthened Barack as a candidate and tested our movement for change.

We welcome Hillary as a partner in our administration, and I hope you will show your support by helping Barack fulfill our campaign promise.

Will you make a contribution now to retire Hillary's campaign debt?

I saw your generosity and commitment to this team throughout the election, and I know we can do it.

In the general election, Hillary was one of our strongest advocates. She traveled the country and did more than 70 events, raising money and bringing new supporters into our campaign.

As Secretary of State, she will be indispensable in furthering Barack's agenda for change.

Let's welcome Hillary to the team and thank her for her efforts in support of our campaign by helping to retire her debt to the hard-working individuals and small businesses that were a part of the election:

https://donate.barackobama.com/hillary

Your support and generosity got us this far, and I know I can count on it now.

Thank you,

Joe

[Pharaoh]

1. Sorry

:popcorn:


That's not my problem :rofl:

[polichick]

2. What ever happened to those 18 million voters...

They haven't ponied up 50 cents each yet?

[still_one]

20. You are absolutely right, all her supporters have to do is donate a buck, and her debt is paid /nt

[RB TexLa]

30. I have.

[Dark]

3. Ummm. Have you looked at the economy? It's not like we all have a ton of change to spare.

Where did that 600 million go? why not use some of that?

[kegler14]

4. Sorry

Hillary's got one hell of a lot more money than I have. She could retire the debt herself without blinking an eye.

[graywarrior]

5. Fuck that! We've already bailed out the banks and now we're gonna loan

the Big 3 some more. What do they think we are, made of money?

[TwilightGardener]

6. I like flushing money down the toilet--sign me up!!!

[WolverineDG]

7. Sorry

Let the millionaire pay off her own debts. She sure as hell wouldn't vote to pay off mine.

dg

[shadowknows69]

8. Unless SOS Clinton is divorcing Bill on inauguration day

Then fuck that shit with a chainsaw. Send him on a speaking engagement or something. Or she could garnish her own wages. I'm sure 10% of what the SOS makes won't put the Clintons in poverty.

[JTFrog]

9. Not only No, but Hell No. And not one bit sorry about it. n/t

[Mass]

10. Not before Penn officially renounce to his money. It is one thing to help small

businesses that worked for her, it is another to help pay Mark Penn.

[Tarc]

11. Hillary could've made the convention into a steaming bloodbath

and Obama likely wouldn't be where he is now if she hadn't conceded.

The whiners, bitchers, and moaners in this thread should take a deep breath and think for a moment before speaking.

[JTFrog]

14. LOL. Yeah, Obama wouldn't have won unless Hillary conceded.

And you tell others to think before speaking?

I needed a good laugh today.

Thank you.

[spanone]

23. deep breath...thinking....NO

[Tarc]

33. Trust me, you didn't really think at all there.

[blm]

24. So, RANSOM for civil behavior from Dem lawmakers is appropriate?

BTW - Hasn't Bill cashed that 20 million dollar check from Dubai, yet?

You know....the one he got a year ago....especially after all that lobbying work he did for Dubai to get the Ports Deal?

[graywarrior]

28. So it's blackmail?

At this point I don't care. I am broke. The rest of the country is broke. Why should we bail them out? Why?

[TwilightGardener]

31. Extortion--apparently the commenter believes Hillary could have sent her "goons"

to make trouble, so now we should pay up.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

36. It's not extortion!

And if you mention extortion again we'll have your legs broken!

[TwilightGardener]

37. ...

:scared:

[Tarc]

32. Um, blackmail? No. Do you see Hillary herself with her hand out?

This is Obama's campaign itself asking for the support, so by extension, Obama himself.

[graywarrior]

38. No, I just see very very rich corporate types asking the serfs for a handout

doen't matter who they are...Obama or Clinton....and I LOVE the two of them. I just can't support them financially when I'm trying to decided between buying packing boxes to move or gas to get there.

[WolverineDG]

40. So why haven't you ponied up? nt

[polichick]

49. How do we know they didn't cook up this sos deal to prevent that??

[burythehatchet]

12. So a married couple that is worth possibly hundreds of millions of dollars

spends money on a campaign that was UNNECESSARY for the final several months while paying bastards like Penn for advice that went against the Democratic party wants the people who are suffering though a recession to pay off campaign debts.



I'll get right on that.

[riqster]

39. One quibble:

I agree with much of your post, except for this part: "UNNECESSARY for the final several months".

What happened was every freakin' state got fired up, every person's primary vote was courted, to an extent we just don't see any more. A 50-state strategy that actually meant the candidates working on all 50 states, getting the electorate motivated and involved for the General election.

It put the focus on the VOTERS rather than the candidates. That may not have been necessary WRT who won the nomination, but it sure as hell helped us win in November, so I'd say it was helpful in the end. (The Reeps relaxed after McCain hit the magic number, and look what happened there. We won. They lost.)

I'll send HRC a few bucks after the holidays, even though I backed Kooch in the primaries.

[Dogmudgeon]

13. No shortage of internecine hatred here!

That grand tradition of the Leftist Circular Firing Squad has been passed on to a new generation of Clinton-haters.

--p!

[greguganus]

17. So how much have you donated? n/t

[still_one]

21. I don't have any disdain or hate for Hillary, but if all her supporters threw in a buck

there wouldn't be a problem.

[Tarc]

34. Did you ever consider for a moment that perhaps we already did?

[still_one]

55. I am honestly not trying to be flipant, but then the 12 million debt would not only

be paid off, there would be some left over

I also have no doubt that it will get paid off

Threads like this do more to incite and divide then provide any real thoughtful discussion

[kegler14]

27. I don't dislike Hillary at all, but...

I'm stunned that somebody worth hundreds of millions wants me to help her pay off a campaign debt. I'm worrying about whether I can afford to send my son to college.

[Triana]

35. Yep...though I understand the economic hardship sentiment. n/t

[greguganus]

15. Maybe Bill can revisit that donor list for a couple more million. n/t

[lamp_shade]

16. Happy to. Done. n/t

[marketcrazy1]

19. I probably would

IF i could..... but I already gave more to the Obama camp than i could afford... hope it helped!

[hisownpetard]

18. Thanks, but no thanks.

Next question?

[w4rma]

22. Isn't she for exporting my job to India or China? Or bringing over someone to undercut my wage? (nt)

[Waiting For Everyman]

25. The PUMAs can do it.

Not even for you, Joe.

[mysticalchick]

26. Yeah, I'm with you all ...

... she chose to keep running when it was pretty darn clear she wasn't getting the nod so she takes that responsibility. Consequences of your actions and all that. I never saw why she asked Obama to help pay off her debts. That just seems wrong to me (and I'd say that if the situation were reversed, btw).

[FreeStateDemocrat]

29. Is it true that the Clinton's are worth around $100,000,000?

[Beacool]

41. Same bullshit around here, different day.

Don't want to help out? Fine, no one is forcing anyone to give money, but please spare us the venom.

A couple of points:

1) Millions of people preferred Hillary over Obama during the primaries and we are the ones who kept asking her to stay until the last state had a chance to vote. Furthermore, more registered Democrats voted for her than for Obama. She also won most of the primaries from March through June and all of them by wide margins, except for IN. She may not have made it over the finish line, but she came pretty damn close.

2) The Clintons are NOT worth $100M, that was their total earnings from 2001 - 2007. Taxes took over $30M and $10M went to charitable causes. Obviously they have done quite well for themselves since leaving the WH, but what's wrong with that?

3) Her supporters are still donating, though the top donors have maxed out long ago. I have done what I can, from donating money, buying merchandise to holding fundraisers. On the 15th I'll be attending the event in NYC and I'm looking forward to seeing Bill and Hillary again.

Hillary and Obama are on the same team now, and as when parents remarry, us stepsiblings will have to learn to coexist under the same roof. So, I have first dibs on the room with the connecting bath.

:7

[JI7]

42. ok, so those millions who supported Hillary should be able to pay it off

[kegler14]

43. My mistake on the $100 million. Earnings, not worth.

[Beacool]

46. Hey, no problem.

:hi:

[MiniMe]

44. I would have a lot more sympathy for her debt if the debt wasn't mostly for

Mark Penn. I can barely afford to pay my own bills, I just can't afford to chip in to a millionaire to help her pay off her debts. I have respect for Hillary, she would have made a good President and I think she will make a good Secretary of State.

[Beacool]

45. Well, no argument about Mark Penn.

I wish that she would stiff the creep. But, the rest of the money is owed to other people, though the small vendors were the first ones to be paid.

[Nye Bevan]

47. Bill makes $150,000 per SPEECH

which is more than most of the recipients of this appeal make in 2 or 3 years.

Let Bill pay off the debt.

[polichick]

48. No kidding - aren't the Clintons worth over 100 million??

Why all the fuss about 7 mill. when they could easily pay it off themselves?

[Medusa]

52. Because they don't want to spend any more of their $$$

and would much prefer for us to spend ours. Sorry I'm not a multi-millionaire nor did I tell HRC to stay in a race long after it became very clear that she could not win it, racking up more debt as she went along. $1 buck wouldn't kill those 18M supporters to cough up to cover her debt would it? Tell them to cought it up Hill, not me.

[suninvited]

50. I wonder if that email was sent out

only to those who donated to Hilary in the primaries. I didn't get it, and I suspect I will not. I donated to Obama during the primaries.

[polichick]

51. I got one, and I donated to Obama in the primaries.

[suninvited]

54. There goes my theory then.

I will not be donating to this, however.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

53. My heart bleeds for the poverty stricken Clintons.

:nopity: :nopity: :rofl: :rofl: