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Oh Hell To The Naw On Obama's Retiring Clinton's Debt
huffingtonpost.com — "She didn't win the nomination, so she goes through this little exercise of spending money she doesn't have in WV and KY. Another example of her fiscal irresponsibility. Now she has the gall to try and blackmail Senator Obama into paying her off, to do something that good sense and dignity forced the other potential nominees to do."
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- KLBP, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2The last thing an Obama supporter wants to see is their donation going to helping bail out Hillary Clinton. If should couldn't afford to loan her own failing campaign money then she shouldn't have. Obama was better financed than Clinton because 1.5 million voters believed in him enough to donate to his campaign. The fact that not as many people were willing to donate to Clinton's campaign is a sign that there is not as much as support for Clinton.
Seeing what we are seeing here, I believe that one piece of campaign finance reform that is needed is that a law needs to be made that one candidate can not "donate" campaign contributions that were donated to their campaign to another candidate. In particular, they should not be allowed to contribute to the losing campaign that was running agaist them in a primary. Basically candidates should not be allowed to "buy out" other campaigns.- bepeace, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Your donation to Obama would never go to Clinton, no reform is needed, it is already law... the Obama campaign, like any other entity, can only donate $2300 to the Clinton campaign. What is being suggested is that he spend time helping her raise funds to retire her debt, (time I'd rather see him spend campaigning).
- KLBP, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Yes I did learn this happy news after I had made my post above. I do agree that I would rather see him spend his time campaigning. After all, he hardly spends any of his own time fund raising for himself, so why should he spend time fund raising for Clinton.
It is clear that the people are speaking with their wallets when they are willing to donate to Obama in unprecedented numbers, but are not as willing to donate to donate to Clinton and she has to depend much more on fat cat donors and bundlers than does Obama.
- KLBP, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Yes I did learn this happy news after I had made my post above. I do agree that I would rather see him spend his time campaigning. After all, he hardly spends any of his own time fund raising for himself, so why should he spend time fund raising for Clinton.
- bepeace, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Your donation to Obama would never go to Clinton, no reform is needed, it is already law... the Obama campaign, like any other entity, can only donate $2300 to the Clinton campaign. What is being suggested is that he spend time helping her raise funds to retire her debt, (time I'd rather see him spend campaigning).
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