Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Trading Dollars

The Obama campaign is offering a major olive branch to Hillary Clinton and her supporters. On a conference call with his top fundraisers, Obama asked them to help raise money to retire Clinton's $10 million in debts to vendors -- bills that were racked up in the long primary campaign that in many cases involved attacks against himself.

  TPM

I’m sorry, Barack, but she continued campaigning after it was obvious she would not be getting the nomination. She loaned her campaign money, apparently believing it was a good investment. She’s responsible for the debts her campaign incurred, not Obama supporters.

But, if you’re in the helping-people-out-of-debt mode, I have a truck that has a few more payments due.

One point of clarification: The Obama camp's help extends only to the vendor debts, but not the more than $10 million in personal debt from Hillary's own self-financing loans. Clinton herself has told her own donors that while she needs help paying off vendors, she is not asking for help paying off the money the campaign owes her personally.

Barely better.

On a private conference call moments ago, Hillary urged her top fundraisers in no uncertain terms to throw their weight behind Barack Obama, and directly asked them in surprisingly candid terms to give or raise money to help her pay off her campaign's debt.

  TPM

After you get my debts paid off, get behind Obama.

Only fair. Only fair.

On the topic of her debts, Hillary said: "Many of you also know that my campaign is facing debt. That happens when you're outspent.”

No, Hill, that happens when you’ve overspent.


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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