What is Digg?234 Comments
- LLamaStar, on 02/07/2008, -10/+110What a poor investment.
- neognostic, on 02/07/2008, -2/+69If she wants to fund her own campaign, I have no problem with that. However, I do have a big problem that they can't establish a budget and deal with day to day finances. Even though she isn't signing the checks, she hired the people to run her campaign. If she can't run a simple campaign with financial responsibility, how can she run the country financially? We don't need another Bush in the office.
- supernovasky, on 02/07/2008, -11/+63Wow!
If this is true, then Hillary's campaign financing is in the tank.
Obama should really capitalize on this. Not only is Hillary the most funded candidate by corporate lobyists, but she has far less individual donors than Barack Obama. Peoples choice!
And as funny as it is, people dont like to donate to a campaign that is financially struggling. If anyone has ever been thinking about donating to Obama, now is about the most effective time to do it.
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/yes ... - RandoTheKing, on 02/07/2008, -4/+53How did she spend nearly $90,000,000 already? If she can't manage $90,000,000 there is no way she can manage getting America out of our $10,000,000,000,000 debt.
- catalysis, on 02/07/2008, -8/+56Does anyone see something wrong with an ex-president financing his wife's presidential campaign with $5M? This is turning into a joke.
- chris9902, on 02/07/2008, -4/+46loaned? so if she gets in office her first act would be to take $5 million back?
- kard32, on 02/07/2008, -4/+40In light of this, just donated $10 to Obama! (broke as hell and first donation to a campaign, hehe)
- jackelsmack, on 02/07/2008, -5/+40From http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/ ...
In December, according to the Politico, Bill Clinton strongly implied that the couple had no plans to part with its money.
"They say you couldn’t stop me from spending all the money I’ve saved over the last five years on Hillary’s campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform," the former president said. - bffoley, on 02/07/2008, -1/+30Politicians get money from regular people donating because they believe in them - nobody complains.
- tagnarth, on 02/07/2008, -4/+29The power of Obama's campaign is he gets nearly all of his donations from normal people. Most people haven't given over $200. I myself have given $75 so far and will be giving more next week. To raise the amount he did last month people giving so little means he has hundreds of thousands of people donating.
- lazerus9, on 02/07/2008, -5/+28Hillary now says that "she will return the donation" and has explained that if she had known how corrupt the donor was, she would have "never accepted the money"!
- inactive, on 02/07/2008, -21/+44Holy *****. This is NOT a very good sign. Can you say Mittmentum? ;-)
- SheilaNoya, on 02/07/2008, -10/+29I wish I had $5 million to lend myself. If I did, I'd send a big chunk of it to Obama.
- Spektr4, on 02/07/2008, -3/+21So let me get this straight. Everyone who donates to Clinton now is simply paying back her loan, not giving her campaign new money?
- MforMike, on 02/07/2008, -4/+18The only thing thats breaking is hillary's campaign
- tuzy2k, on 02/07/2008, -1/+15Same here - I'm not exactly broke but I'm a "fresh out of college" full time employee who has lots of student loans - who just made his first donation ever to a politician. Donated 50$ to Obama.
- jackelsmack, on 02/07/2008, -2/+15Some other items, most of them linked from here: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
- Notice how Hillary has been plugging "double-u double-u double-u dot hillaryclinton dot com" every time she gets an audience now? I didn't realize before but it was a sign of serious money problems.
- Since Bill's income is also legally hers, that raises the question how has he been making money recently? We know he's been influence-peddling in Kazakhstan.
- Clinton Campaign's newest line for the press is that Obama is the establishment candidate and she's the scrappy populist coming from behind. Ridiculous of course but indicates they are trying to move into a lower, less funded posture.
The media consensus for Super Tues was "They Tied" . But these finance surprises combined with an Obama-cakewalk primary calendar for Feb is going to start making Obama's advantage very apparent. Ohio and Pennsylvania are the only states that can save Clinton now. - ReliableWitness, on 02/07/2008, -1/+14This was a joke from the moment Hillary decided to further the family's presidential legacy. It got even more ridiculous when Bill started stumping for her.
- slantyeyed, on 02/07/2008, -3/+15i wonder what kind of interest she's getting on that loan?
- Gemfinder, on 02/07/2008, -4/+15This has been posted earlier today and discussed thoroughly, but it's important and I won't bury it. Suffice it to say, the Clintons LOANED the $5 million to their own campaign and it's already spent. Obama has raised $6 million since the Super Tuesday polls closed from private citizens logging into his site and donating, donating, donating. Their servers are jammed to the gills with people logging on, no joke.
- noblepaladin, on 02/07/2008, -2/+12People liked the fact that Arnold used a lot of his own money to fund his campaign for governor in California, because he won't owe any favors to people who supported him. So I don't mind if politicians fund their own campaign.
- JoEBlack982, on 02/07/2008, -1/+10Book deals, speeches etc.
- TypeEE, on 02/07/2008, -0/+8That's against the law though. YOu can't donate that much to a campaign.
- geekchic, on 02/07/2008, -18/+26Politicans take money from business and lobbyists - people complain.
Politicans spend their own money and aren't "in hock" to business or lobyists - people complain.
Makes you wonder why they bother sometimes. - stonedslacker, on 02/07/2008, -1/+9Well, it seems given her fundraising status, Hillary will do anything for "CHANGE" now.
- supernovanights, on 02/07/2008, -1/+9No, it does not...
But still, just shows that her campaign finance is STRUGGLING to keep up with Obama, if she has to pull money out of her own personal coffers. - poppieprong, on 02/07/2008, -0/+7Did ya notice when the story was submitted? 17 hours and 40 minutes ago, as of 8:45 am. That was......... yesterday.
- PleaseJustDie, on 02/07/2008, -0/+7Obama has always been liked by Digg, and though more people on digg liked Ron Paul (myself included) its easy to see he won't make it past the primaries. It was a dream that won't come to fruition. And now that it looks like McCain will be the republican on the ballot, most of us who haven't been disillusioned about Ron Paul's chances are putting out hopes behind Obama. Obama Kenobi, right now he's our only hope.
- citizenme, on 02/07/2008, -2/+9You mean she already spent all of Rupert Murdoch's money?
- EtherGnat, on 02/07/2008, -0/+7I think after Hillary it's Jeb, Chelsea, THEN Jenna.
- EtherGnat, on 02/07/2008, -0/+7I don't *complain* that she's using her own money. That she's being *forced* to do so because her campaign is broke is a telling sign, though.
- jackelsmack, on 02/07/2008, -1/+7Halperin says "Some Clinton Senior Staff Working Without Pay"
http://thepage.time.com/2008/02/06/page-exclusive- ...
This is getting worse for her, if there's one thing the press knows it's how to smell blood in the water. - jackelsmack, on 02/07/2008, -1/+7Obama raises $3m in the last 24 hours!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samg ... - EtherGnat, on 02/07/2008, -0/+6Neighboring New Mexico is 44% Hispanic (vs. 36% for Texas) yet Obama split the vote with Hillary Tuesday. Texas also has a higher black population and skews younger, both of which help Obama. He still has some catching up to do, though.
- JoEBlack982, on 02/07/2008, -3/+9Way to keep it thoughtful.
- MacEnvy, on 02/07/2008, -0/+6And Texas. If Obama doesn't start making some serious inroads with Latino voters (whom he did very poorly with on Tuesday), Texas is going to be very rough for him.
- Aitese, on 02/07/2008, -1/+7The word LOAN is what should be ringing alarm bells in that little head of yours. You're obviously OK with a presidential candidate that sees the White House as a business investment guranteed to yield millions and millions of dollars for them. Do you know what the actual wage of a President is supposed to be? It's not millions.
- Pfkninenines, on 02/07/2008, -3/+9"My opponent was able to raise more money, and we intended to be competitive, and we were, and I think the results last night proved the wisdom of my investment." No...Loaning yourself money doesn't prove any wisdom, it just shows that if you are rich you can't be excluded from anything. Work for your funds like every other runner..Don't say you're being competitive if you are "cheating".
- DeviantDragon, on 02/07/2008, -4/+9If you mean breaking you mean duplicate story then yes.
- kinerry, on 02/07/2008, -4/+9Breaking: Your face
- lpmiller, on 02/07/2008, -1/+6i don't see how you can look at how Obama did in 'swing' states - where democratic turn out was well above republican turn out - and say he has no chance in a general election.
- easyfnmoney, on 02/07/2008, -6/+10BREAKING: I may not be a campaign finance expert, but I did stay at a holiday inn express
- stfucupcake, on 02/07/2008, -5/+9Rich politicians and their spare mills...
- Pfkninenines, on 02/07/2008, -1/+5That's Republican..But nice attempt.
- jholden42, on 02/07/2008, -1/+5Huh. It's interesting that you'd call Obama unelectable, when he's got not only the support of at least half the Democrats (and the rest aren't booing him like his supporters are Hillary), but also the support of some REPUBLICANS - something even John McCain's having trouble with.
BTW, your little crack aside, apparently you're living in four-or-more-years-ago-land - none of us like McCain since he turned all loony and weird. Once upon a time he was a reasonable, moderate guy who happened to be affiliated with the Republicans; now, he's turned into a big whack-job/GOP lap dog and speaking for myself, at least, I want none of him. - staxofmax, on 02/07/2008, -1/+5Don't you know anything? The order of presidents goes Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. Jenna in 2016!!!
- jdh358, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4***** - she said last night on national TV "my own money" - had nothing to do with Bil.
- Chromatik, on 02/07/2008, -8/+12BREAKING: Hillary is a sausage wallet.
- razor150, on 02/07/2008, -1/+5It doesn't make a lot of sense. She's raised over 100 million dollars for her campaign. From her expenditures she should still have a lot left. Now she is asking some of her staff to work for free and she is loaning her campaign money. Where did the money go?
- dracflamloc, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3connections, speech + book deals, etc.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 224 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is