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Posted on Apr 23, 2008
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Hillary Clinton ended her Pennsylvania victory speech with a plea for donations in order to compete with Barack Obama’s campaign war chest. Her supporters have responded to the tune of as much as $10 million (in one day), according to the Clinton campaign.


AP via Google:

WASHINGTON—Turns out Hillary Rodham Clinton’s victory Tuesday came with a cash prize.

In the hours after winning Pennsylvania’s Democratic presidential primary, Clinton’s campaign said she raised $3.5 million.

By midday Wednesday, the campaign estimated the total haul at $10 million raised online in the 24 hours since Pennsylvania’s polls closed, and claimed it was her best fundraising day ever.

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By Leefeller, April 24, 2008 at 10:16 pm Link to this comment

Great post, thanks for that.

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By cyrena, April 24, 2008 at 5:24 pm Link to this comment

rage…this post is a DELIGHT! I especially loved the part about the crown and the ermine, and the SHOCK! smile

“What do you mean, (says Hillary) that I’m not the president…OF COURSE I am. This was ALWAYS ‘the plan.’

I wasn’t ready in 2004, because..that wasn’t ‘the plan’. I planned this for NOW.

How dare the thieving stepchild ingrate ruin my plan. What kind of audacity is that?

What do you MEAN the American people prefer him? What do the voters have to do with this? F’ ‘em…this is MY plan!!

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By Maggie, April 24, 2008 at 5:22 pm Link to this comment
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I am one of her contributors and you are one of the reasons I’ll never vote for Obama.  His supporters behave like snot nosed 5-year olds.

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By rage, April 24, 2008 at 3:14 pm Link to this comment
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...she’s done!

If Hillary was going to show that much of her behind, she should have worn the new clean drawers, not the ones from 2004. She needs to bow out now.

Hillary should have run in 2004, instead of acquiescing to John Kerry who gaffed off to the loser’s circle with his millions in unspent campaign cash. Now, she’s got her drawers in an uncomfortable frontal bunch because Obama hasn’t capitulated to her, callowly resigned that it is now her turn. Worst, Obama is beating her like a theiving stepchild.

Hillary has been in a tailspin since the 5th of February, when the hapless predictions of her early annointing made by the Murdoch minions over at Fixed Noise did not come to pass for the presumptuously inevetable nominee. She just didn’t get it. She was wearing the crown, draped in the ermine, holding the sceptor, and shocked, I say, SHOCKED, I tell you, to realize that Obama wasn’t that easy chocolate cakewalk she had been told he was. America actually liked Obama, and loathed her, much to her bitter consternation. Furthermore, Obama ran a grassroots campaign that netted him gains of voter support she dismissively took for granted because they were not “big” states. Consequently, Obama has more popular votes, more caucus victories, and more pledged delegates than Hillary. In short, he’s winning.

Now, knowing that she can’t beat him EVER, she’s out to scuff him up as much as she can, hoping McCain will beat him in November. She knows that once he takes oath the 20th of January 2009, her Presidential aspirations are never to be realized. The thing is, though, is Grampers has problems and hurdles of his own to overcome if he’s to even lose respectably. Still, Shillary needs Grampers to pull off a hat trick that she’s willing to facilitate now, just so she can toss her hat into the ring, hoping we forget all this divisive craziness by 2012.

She really needs to be concentrating on keeping her seat in the Senate for New York. Albany is a fickle place, now with a blind Governor who may or may not be that committed to Hillary’s Senate tenure. New York state has the easiest residency stipulations in the nation to qualify for a senate run. And, the truth is that Hillary has run virtually unopposed for her Senate seat, hanging her resume on Bill’s reputation, a legacy which her feckless Presidential run has scuffed and sullied something fierce. It won’t be that difficult to find a competitor that can wash the taste of Hillary and 9ui11iani out of everyone’s hair in 2010.

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By Jaded Prole, April 24, 2008 at 3:06 pm Link to this comment

Anyone giving money to the vile slimebag must know that she cannot get the nomination and that these funds will go to swiftboating and sleazmongering to defeat the democrats.

Makes you wonder who these supporters are . . .

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By SteveL, April 24, 2008 at 12:33 pm Link to this comment

If Hillary thinks democrats loosing in November is no problem and she can run for senate and again for president in 2012 without people remembering her performance this year, she will be surprised.

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By nonna, April 24, 2008 at 7:36 am Link to this comment

The main reason I would not vote for Obama is because his supporters are absolutely vile people.  He plays the saint and he has a swarm of devils as supporters.

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By cyrena, April 24, 2008 at 12:10 am Link to this comment

Obama’s campaign sent out a message with this same info…that Hillary had collected 3.5 million since Tuesday. (that was before this recent 10 million).

Seems really odd eh? Like, why did they wait so long, if in fact all of this money came from ‘supporters’?

I think she’s a lying ass, and her repuglican base are just up to their standard criminal activity.

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By Leefeller, April 23, 2008 at 6:41 pm Link to this comment

Now if they are telling the truth this really great for McHillary. We should place this in our war bonnet and take it all the way home.  10 million dollars for the war monger is not bad for a days work of not telling the truth. Now we have the funds to Nuke Iran. Oh so great she is, her mighty hineass.

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