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Their cautionary tales, combined with published reports about similar difficulties faced by a New Hampshire landlord, an Iowa office cleaner and a New York caterer, highlight a less-obvious impact of Clinton’s inability to keep up with the staggering fundraising pace set by her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

The New York senator’s presidential campaign ended February with $33 million in the bank, according to a report filed last week with the Federal Election Commission, but only $11 million of that can be spent on her battle with Obama.

The rest can be spent only in the general election, if she makes it that far, and must be returned if she doesn’t. If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned her campaign $5 million, she would have been nearly $3 million in the red at the end of February.

By contrast, if you subtract Obama’s $625,000 in debts and his general-election-only money from his total cash on hand at the end of last month, he’d still be left with $31 million.

So basically her campaign has a track record as a deadbeat... if it were anyone else she would be forced to drop out now.

[edit on 31-3-2008 by grover]

Hi Groovy Grover: Very nice find. Starred and flagged. It makes me wonder how well she would handle the nation's money, if she can't even manage her own money. I agree, this makes her look very, very bad. I have a feeling she felt she had the nomination in the bag and just can't bring herself to realize it's over.

I don't like her either. I don't think Bill or Hillary are very nice people. I think that for them, winning is everything and it doesn't matter how many people you have to walk on to win. I think they're both probably sociopaths, since they lie pathologically.

Hey love.

You are totally correct. I liked Bill as president and I like him as an ambassador at large and a fund raiser for charities but he does this nation no service putting his and his "wife's" egos first and foremost before the party or the nation's well being.

It is not so much that I am a big Obama fan, I'm not really, I preferred Edwards.... but since the choice is Obama or Clinton... well you catch my drift.

Awesome. People should start to sue for their money.
Gotta put this stray down quick before she's able to print the cash.

Interesting stuff. Wonder why Billary isn't paying it's bills. Perhaps holding onto a cash reserve just in case? Who knows, but apparently it's better for one's business not to transact with her campaign.

Good finds, Grover - starred and flagged.

And I was just getting ready to post the "hillary doesn't pay her staff's health insurance bills" (of all things), but someone beat me to it.

So, what's a good, loyal democrat to do? Especially when hillary's main competition ends up on the internet in photos like this. People have been saying that they don't trust hillary to answer the White House phone coherently in the middle of the night. I mean what if it was Putin or the chinese on the Hot Line?



Nope, I still maintain that the best democrat (in the JFK sense of the word) running is ---- McCain.

[edit on 3/31/2008 by centurion1211]

For 100$ i would say she raped my dog.. Who's to say they were not payed 50k just to avoid her payment. ..

Bah .. All this politics is going to my head..

(BTW I'm not a Clinton supporter. Just playing devils advocate)

[edit on 1-4-2008 by oLDWoRLDDiSoRDeR]

Great post!

I am in Ohio...and she did the same thing here, her campaign owes money in Youngstown. I heard on CNN the other day that's she's 700K in the hole, while Obama has 31 million to play with.

Politicians have absolutely no shame, and no accountability. I agree with the posts here that say take her and her campaign to court.

What I find hilarious, is we wouldn't even be hearing about this in the MSM/CNN if they weren't so blatantly plugging Obama IMO.

Watching US presidential campagne I am actually wandering about this funding business!
Whole problem with free and honest elections starts with the money.
Basically, who gets more money for adverts and pays for digging dirt on an opponent gets the chair in the oval office!?
IMO, I rather see some serious debate and equal coverage on a TV and radio regardless of a party influence and wealth.
Only then can you assure honest and fair result. Everything else is a business and has nothing to do with democratic ideals.
If that was organized that way, fair and square I have no doubt that Dr. Ron Paul would be in a white house reshuffling cabinet and abolishing private "federal bank" and IRS first thing in the morning before shower and coffee.
This way you always have two parties representing few filthy rich family's in US and Europe who are essentially running everything.
This is a shame and a waste of time and money.

This is pretty weak if true. I had my propane people call me up and chew me out for $600 and she gets away with how much? At first I thought this was a joke like what does she pay her husband for or maybe the cloned the guy.

As a former restaurant slave it really bit my butt when she did that photo-op with a waitress in a diner to highlight how hard it was for the average person to make ends meet, she had lunch served her by the waitress, and then didn't tip.

Bad form really bad form.