Oh, boy! Obama to top fundraisers: Cut Hillary a check, will you?

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Obama to top fundraisers: Cut Hillary a check, will you?

Obama Asks Top Moneyfolks to Help Clinton Retire Her Debt

June 24, 2008 7:34 PM

ABC News has learned that on a conference call with his national finance team this afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, asked his top contributors to help Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, retire her more than $10 million in outstanding vendor debt. He did not specify an amount.

Clinton's debt has been a major point of contention as the two former rivals attempt to reconcile.

Clinton will appear at an Obama fundraiser Thursday night in Washington, D.C., and the two will campaign together in Unity, NH, on Friday.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/20...a-asks-top.html

Which would or could explain this.

Oh, boy! Obama camp announces 'big role' for Bill Clinton in fall

A campaign spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama today told a reporter that ex-President Bill Clinton will play a "big role" in the upcoming general election campaign.

This could be the usual unity hoo-haa leading up to Friday's joint Obama-Hillary Clinton appearance in, of all places, Unity, N.H. This, after their joint appearance in Washington Thursday before many of her top fundraisers.

Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not reveal to Bloomberg reporter Kristin Jensen how the campaign might use the former president.

"A unified Democratic Party is going to be a powerful force for change this year, and we're confident President Clinton will play a big role in that," Psaki said.

Not that there would be any political conniving among fellow Democrats because the Republicans are so collectively evil and any personal party ambitions must take second-place to that or be seen to anyway.

But can you imagine all the conceivable subversive subplots inherent in the husband of the defeated Democratic candidate campaigning for the man who beat her? And if Obama just happens to lose, the door to 2012 is wide open for, oh, look, the Clinton wife again.

Of course, both Clintons want to appear to work hard for....

...Obama, now that they've stopped suggesting his South Carolina primary victory was a fluke like Jesse Jackson's and saying "Shame on you, Barack Obama!"

Even during the vicious closing days of the primary season when Sen. Clinton was desperate for Democratic support, as The Ticket noted here, she obviously refrained from attacking her close friend, John McCain, by name, targeting instead the Republicans or Bush administration.

At times she even praised McCain as well-experienced to be president on Day One while Obama "has a speech he gave in 2002."

Bill Clinton has been largely silent since the primaries' end, mentioning Obama only in passing in a recent Miami speech. Hillary Clinton said all the right things in her "I-give-up" speech and has held conference calls urging supporters to switch to the freshman Illinois senator.

But a number of Clinton's longtime supporters like Haim Saban have opted out of the "Now we're helping Obama" effort.

And Bill is gonna have to be a whole lot more disciplined out there on the wild rodeo speaking stumps mouthing the message of his wife's vanquisher than he was speaking on behalf of his own spouse.

Many days from January 2007 until The End, when he wore that funereal black suit to the surrender, he walked all over her intended campaign theme-of-the-day by creating distracting news through yet another angry confrontation over something else.

How much control success will the Chicago Obama crowd have if it really does give Bill Clinton a "big role"? Can't wait to watch this. If they show up with a knife, you show up with a gun.

One measure of Hillary's profound appreciation for Bill Clinton's campaign months of "help" was that she left him completely out of her online campaign photo book, 20 double pages of pictures that did include Chelsea but had no room for hubby. Thanks, hon.

--Andrew Malcolm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington...-clinton-1.html

[arnaldoabru 11]

Don't pull the off topic stuff. This is a serious question. Why was McCain having a fund raiser in England?

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Don't pull the off topic stuff. This is a serious question. Why was McCain having a fund raiser in England?

To be honest I didn't know that he did. But if he did would there be a problem with that?

[RunInRed 16,454]

I thought Clinton had 20MM in debt? Although, maybe 10MM of that is what she loaned herself. Regardless why should Obama supporters help her? She kept telling us how she had 18MM+ people who voted for her - why doesn't she reach out to them?

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Regardless why should Obama supporters help her?

Because Obama said to.

She kept telling us how she had 18MM+ people who voted for her - why doesn't she reach out to them?

I really love the way the Obamaphiles are so receptive to this idea. Also your response is probably much more prevelant than Obama and the DNC want to think.

Don't welcome the Hillary supporters, spit on them. Rub their nose's in it. Make them suffer. Tell them how stupid they were and still are.

[RunInRed 16,454]

You won't find me as an Obama supporter give a dime to HRC.

Also, don't forget, many of the Clinton voters were open primary Republicans who were crossing over attempting to create chaos (Rush Limbaughs failed plan) in the Democratic party.

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You won't find me as an Obama supporter give a dime to HRC.

Also, don't forget, many of the Clinton voters were open primary Republicans who were crossing over attempting to create chaos (Rush Limbaughs failed plan) in the Democratic party.

Does this affect your views of Obama even in the slightest? That he would even be asking for this type of financial support? He is obviously dropping the "change" from his original campaign direction and now seems to see some advantage in going with the Clinton political machine. What's up with that?

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Typical Politician......NO HOPE, NO CHANGE! SAME OLE DEMOCRAT....

[arnaldoabru 11]

Don't pull the off topic stuff. This is a serious question. Why was McCain having a fund raiser in England?

To be honest I didn't know that he did. But if he did would there be a problem with that?

No problem, just never heard of a fund raiser in another country.

[RunInRed 16,454]

You won't find me as an Obama supporter give a dime to HRC.

Also, don't forget, many of the Clinton voters were open primary Republicans who were crossing over attempting to create chaos (Rush Limbaughs failed plan) in the Democratic party.

Does this affect your views of Obama even in the slightest? That he would even be asking for this type of financial support? He is obviously dropping the "change" from his original campaign direction and now seems to see some advantage in going with the Clinton political machine. What's up with that?

To be honest, I don't really get it. I mean, I know he is trying to "unite the party" but I really don't think he needs the Clintons. If you look at the latest polls across the nation, across key battle ground states (especially in the appalachain region where he would supposedly struggle), and other key polling data, he is ahead. Some polls have him up double digits. Hell, he is even running close or ahead in 2004 red states like Virginia, Georgia, Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, New Hampshire, and others. This all despite his "wrong stance" on campaign finance, offshore oil drilling, and habeus corpus. So I think Obama is wrong here - he doesn't need the Clintons. But I will give him credit for reaching out to his opponents - I mean honestly, if the situation was reverse, does any one really think the Clintons would be as conciliatory to Obama?

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I think Obama would be better served running on his own, and not using the Clintons either.

BUT......it's political!!! Obama is proving, once again, to be the typical politician.

If you were looking for change, then keep looking. He's after the Clinton votes. Nothing more.