Hillary’s $7.5 Million Problem

Maybe we should all help to retire her debt at this point. She has put her own money where her mouth is (finally!) and she did step up to help (not double-cross Obama).

It’s not entirely their fault-the media is obsessed with the Clintons-diverted momentarily by Witless From Wasilla-but
this whole affair has become another Hillary and Bill Drama, at the expense of Obama’s prestige. Putting it bluntly, the world’s in a mess and we can’t afford this distraction. Obama should “cut her loose.”

just send bill out on the talking circuit. With all his hot air they should be able to easily retire her debt. If not there are a lot of American suckers out there that will send in their children’s food money for her. Or better yet have her go out and get a real job..Paul/Bethesda

So Hilary, who, along with her husband, have made over $100 million since Bill left the White House, wants some help paying for $7.5 million worth of debt? Talk about a sense of entitlement…

What happened to the ‘true” Democrats? Isn’t that how Obama Supporters described themselves?
If you are a “true” Democrat, you will help to retire Hillary’s debt.
After all, no one can deny that she worked hard to elect Mr. Obama – far harder, in fact, than any previous defeated rival in a Democratic primary.
Between the unity rally in New Hampshire last June 27 and Election Day, she undertook roughly 130 separate campaign events, including speeches, fund-raisers, press interviews and conference calls all over the country AND brought more than $10 million into the Obama coffers — while her own debt remains unpaid.
Obama said he would help Hillary to retire her debt. His help was mentioning her name at two fund-raisers.
Real “true” Democrat, that Obama. Looks like “support” works one way for him.
All of you claim to be “true” Democrats, but after Hillary was worked damn near to death campaigning for your candidate, your “support” for the Democrat Party only applies if it is for Obama.
Party of Hope, Unity and Change – well,
I’ll believe it when you all put your money where your mouths are!

Your comment says a lot about you and the “New” Democrat Party.
Like Obama, I guess you all are users.

She can just have Slick Willie give a speech to a bunch of retired Florida snowbirds and he can help her make up the campaign deficit. She can also hit up some fellow leftist illuminati cabinet members so she won’t have to tap into the multi millions that she and Bill have in the bank.

Here is a better idea – why don’t Obama just give her back that $10 million she raised for him? Only one part of the bargain was completed – her part. Obama did not follow through on his part, so he should give her the money back so she can retire her debt. Obama has plenty of money, he can afford to give it back.

Once again our American system at work. How dare the Clintons ask for one red cent. They have milked the taxpayer for a number of years and believe me they can afford to pay their 7.5 million dollar debt alot easier than most people that are hurting with the economy that the Demorcats have caused over the last 2 years. You Bush bashers can cry all you want but GW did not cause this…..Pelosi, Clinton, Waxman, Harry Reed….they are all Democrats…Wake UP AMERICA!!! But dont worry….Once Obama gets in office then we will be back in the days of Jimmy Carter…..soft on National security and interest rates of over 21%….Now thats change!!

I feel her pain!!!! We have problems making mortgage and monthly bills which is considerably much less her $7.5 million. But she could lobby the Senate for a minimum of $20,000 stimulus check to each working taxpayer to help them pay bills and out money back into the economy. The average “Joe The Plumber” is having a hard time making their bills. We need to take care of those people who are supporting the government by paying their taxes.
But she still got to campaign for President and still receive her salary as a senator(did she work all those months for her salary???) and got to solicit campaign donations. We all need to be in politics. Maybe her and Former President Bill Clinton would like to donate $10,000 to our charitable cause. That would be would be a good will donation to helping out a distressed homeowner in the Midwest.

I am in debt too. So what. Pay your bills Clinton.

Maybe she should ask for a government bailout. har har!

Let Obama give Hillary her 10 million back – he did not keep his part of the deal, so he should give it back.
You can hate on Hillary all you want, but one thing is for sure, during this election, Hillary WAS a “true” Democrat and she showed it by campaigning her heart out for Obama.
You can ignore that fact if you want and make all the smart remarks you want, no biggie.
Obama should not have to rely on his Supporters excuses for him or their distraction attacks on Hillary to cover up for his inaction and dishonesty.
The one fact that is indisputable in this matter is that Obama should be man enough and honorable enough to keep his given word.

WestCoastMessenger – Wow, it’s been a while!
Looks like we might want to hang on – the next 4 years are going to be a real bumpy ride!

In regards to President elect Obama. He is not America’s first black president. He is America’s first mulatto president”
“a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and Caucasian” dictionary.com.
Why has little attention been paid to his “white” side? If racial issues tend to dived people, Why is so much attention given to the President Elects race? What the country needs is a leader of unprecedented honesty, integrity, humility and well in-tune with the working man.

Hillary supporters should understand that many of Obama’s supporters did contribute to Hillary’s debt retirement. Unfortunately, there have been many financial needs for the Party that have been crucially important. I’ve donated many times to Obama,the DSCC and the DCCC as well as to individual campaigns that were important around the country such as the Senate races in Minnesota and Georgia. I have also donated to Mrs. Clinton several times, but not in the amounts I might have if the needs of the general election were less. I’m a single nurse. I’ve never donated to any political campaign before this year and I didn’t do it just because I thought Obama was a great candidate (though he is). I did it because I had become very, very worried about what was happening to my country. I’ve sacrificed and done without a lot of things to be able to do this. I’m not the only one. It would be nice if once in a while a few of Hillary’s supporters would recognize that we did the best we could for her while simultaneously fighting a hard fought general election. I’m tapped out and tired. If there are those who have sacrificed less over the past year or two, it would really be nice if some of you could step up to the bat and take a turn. Obama had 3 million people who donated, but there are 300 million Americans. Some of the other 99% of the country might like to hold up the tent for a little while and let the weary warriors rest a bit. Thanks
p.s. I’m not even a Democrat, but I’m glad I helped.

People are losing jobs and holding back on buying christmas presents. writing a check to a rich politician (clintons made 100 mil in 8 years) is the last thing i would do.

Why don’t the Clintons just pay it themselve’s” Who cares. They will still be eating lobster for brunch. Still fly anywhere in the world on a whim. Still have armed guards on hand protected them. Still have more money than they can shake a stick at. Still leave plenty of money when they die to their daughter. Please stop begging for money. Pay it off. Bill can do a few lectures and make it all back. Quit asking the poor and middle class for money. How disgusting.

Bill Richardson is much more qualified to be Sec’y of State than Hillary “Tuzla Dash” Clinton.

I really don’t understand this at all. I think it’s more than Hillary needing $7.5 million dollars. Are they, (the Clintons) BROKE? I received a letter from Hillary asking to help after she had lost and chipped in. How rediculous on my part. Don’t you think a lot of people did? And they still need $7.5 million? $7.5 million dollars and she can’t get it from her supporters? BTW, why does she need that? Is she losing her home or what? This is crazy!

I heard it from Hillary. I didn’t hear it from the other 6 that decided to drop out because they ran out of money, not one time!

Come on, Dems help the Lady out…remember, “sharing is caring”!
:-)

That’s rediculous! The Obama supporters were happy to send him the money because they wanted him to be the president. Why didn’t Dodd, Biden, Edwards, Kucinich and the one in Alaska all stay in and ask for the same thing? Why did they get out of the election? They had the same right. THey just ran out of money. If Obama had ran out of the money, he would have done what the others did. I still think Hillary went to see Richard Melon Scaiffe for some reason. The one that paid to tear the Clintons down in the 90′s and then he endorsed her. He has enough to try and ruin them, he can sure help her now. Hillary basically endorsed McCain during the primaries. That I’ve never seen in politics before, ever.She used to be my favorite.

Make her pay off the debt from her own personal money. I would love to see a woman president but not her. If she doesn’t have enough respect for herself to leave her cheating husband then I don’t have any respect for her to run our country.

It must just chap you that she didn’t get enough from her supporters!

As someone who supported Hillary Clinton and wanted her to fight on, I felt it was my personal responsibility to help where I could, even after the campaign was lost. There were many people driving her on.
She’s lost over $13.2 million of her own money. That’s a big bite for anyone to take.
Also the Clinton’s have donated millions and because of their foundation have raised north of $100 million dollars.
Just because someone else is wealthy, doesn’t mean their human. And just because someone is wealthy, doesn’t mean it’s on the back of the poor as long as they contribute to society. (It’s the people such as Enron who did it on the back of the poor. Not everyone is like that.)

If Mrs. Clinton had conceded in April, when it was obvious that it was mathematically impossible for her to win the nomination, she would not have incurred the additional debts that accrued as she pursued a unattainable goal. The debt was a result of her own selfish and egotistical ambition and she should not be bailed out for her ill advised behavior.

The election is over. Obama has money left over – millions. So Obama Supporters do not need to contribute any more of their money. Meanwhile, Obama needs to give Hillary her money back – all $10 million of it. After all, she worked for it, not Obama.
People on this blog continue to trash Hillary who, at least, kept her promise, yet say nothing about Obama’s lying and using her and other people.
They can’t say enough bad things about Hillary, yet they excuse everything Obama does, no matter how bad it is.
Rather than address Obama’s poor behavior, they use “distraction” arguments about Hillary and what She should do or not do.
The issue is, and let’s stay focused here, is that Obama entered into a bargain with Hillary. He got what he wanted, but once that was done, decided to welsh on his part of it.
It is amazing to me that none of the Obama Supporters bothered to even mentioned anything about what else I wrote, how he stiffed the Democratic Party after they helped him to win, even to the point of taking delegates from Hillary and giving them to him.
I guess it is a good thing that Obama is not a businessman.

You all weren’t bashing Hillary Clinton when she was campainging hard for Obama. Now that he won, its back to bashing her? You are all hypocrites who believe Obama will accomplish something. I certainly believe he has the potential to go down in history as the first president (in a long time) working truly for the people, however I don’t think he will do that, he will just do what he is told, because he doesn’t take a stand on anything until he is told what he should think. If I am wrong about him I will apologize. In the meantime, layoff the Clinton Bashing you all are sad.

leelee: “I guess it is a good thing that Obama is not a businessman.”
I don’t know. Seems to me Obama knows how to assemble a team that can handle money and think in terms of cost-benefit analysis, strategic planning, etc.
And, you know, its funny. A big part of business is selling. Most of our CEOs – they aren’t accountants who rose through the ranks. They started in sales. I thought one of the Obama bashing themes is that he’s someone who sold the nation a bill of goods. If that’s true, then it would seem he’d do very well in business.

leelee – what exactly is it you think Obama agreed to do?
And the issue is that Clinton didn’t manage her campaign finances, regardless how you try to spin it.

Strikes me as a narrow escape for America – hard to balance a nation’s books when you can’t stay above water during a well-supported campaign.

Enough already. I’m sure Senator Hillary Clinton and President-elect Obama have worked this whole thing out. This is why I like President-elect Obama, he doesn’t waste his time on petty stuff. While most people are bickering and dealing in he said, she said, President-elect Obama is working on his 10th project. This is why we have the problems we have now is because most people just sit around and bicker and heckle and don’t get a darn thing done. Viva el Presidente-elect Obama because he is a visionary leader and knows how to not let this or that keep him from what he has to do.
My question to all Americans is, “What are you doing to help make America and the world better?” Having said that, I rest my case. Have a very happy day!

So how much does the Sec’y. of State gig pay…maybe she could go on a payment plan!
I thought she owed the money (or most of it) to Mark Penn…just tell Mark to go pound salt…
This is ridiculous.

He did both and that is all he can do.
Where are her big money backers now?
PUMA? The women who bash Obama? 18 million cracks in the ceiling but they do not donate 1 $ each to pay off the debt?
Obama’s vaunted fundraising operation hasn’t reciprocated by planning new events or an Internet campaign to help Clinton pay off the $7.9 million
OBAMA gave the maximum he could under the law for donations. He gives 20% to Charity. It is mccain who gives 3% and that is to his own Foundation.
It should be 1.1 mil according to the above article. READ:
Clinton’s Senate account received $6.4 million in contributions that were first designated for the presidential campaign for use in the general election.That money could theoretically be transferred back to the presidential campaign and used to knock out vendor debt.