Fresh off the Team Obama presses..
May 8th, 2008 | by Dusty |From an email I received this afternoon from the Obama campaign, some jolting news about Hillary’s campaign:
News broke this morning that Senator Clinton made three separate loans to her campaign in the past 30 days — including one as recently as Monday.
These loans total more than $6.4 million, which combined with her previous personal loans, add up to at least $11.4 million she’s loaned her campaign since February.
A spokesman said she may continue to “loan the campaign additional money out of her jointly-held assets” — which include more than $100 million in income since her husband left the White House.
Damn, Terry McAuliffe has been spouting off about how much cash they are bringing in..yet she still has to loan her campaign money? Something doesn’t add up for me. Meanwhile, these are the facts as Obama sees them:
Barack Obama is now just 169 delegates away from winning the Democratic nomination. It’s within sight.
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Barack has already won more votes, more delegates, and more than twice as many states as Senator Clinton, whose path to the nomination has grown extremely narrow. But these loans show that her campaign will continue to contest the remaining primaries vigorously.
Here is Obama’s math…which isn’t quite as creative as Team Hillary’s has been lately:
There are only six contests remaining on the Democratic primary calendar and only 217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. Only 7% of the pledged delegates remain on the table. There are 253 remaining undeclared superdelegates, for a total of 470 delegates left to be awarded.
With North Carolina and Indiana complete, Barack Obama only needs 169 total delegates to capture the Democratic nomination. This is only 36% of the total remaining delegates.
Conversely, Senator Clinton needs 326 delegates to reach the Democratic nomination, which represents a startling 69% of the remaining delegates.
With the Clinton path to the nomination getting even narrower, we expect new and wildly creative scenarios to emerge in the coming days.
While those scenarios may be entertaining, they are not legitimate and will not be considered legitimate by this campaign or its millions of supporters, volunteers, and donors.
Hillary isn’t going away..but I think she’s in it now to pay off that huge campaign debt. 
And no, I don’t think she wants the Vice Presidency…she would rather have Reid’s job than the second fiddler’s job.
4 Responses to “Fresh off the Team Obama presses..”
By rube cretin on May 9, 2008 | Reply
Dusty,
Your post has been sitting here for several hours. i have not commented, but here goes. Why would someone worth a 100 million want to be senator or president for that matter. Is it a power thing? Is it an ego thing? Is the lady stupid? What is going on? Help me understand the motivation.
By Dusty on May 9, 2008 | Reply
Kind sir, I fear I can not help you to understand Hillary’s motivation..but the ‘p’ word comes to mind.
By rube cretin on May 9, 2008 | Reply
I feared that. However, please help me, what does “p” signify. Old age seems to confuse, and in real life it can mean several things. Every relationship ends in a power struggle and the weapon and the motive are frequently indistinguishable. (that last word was a big one. wonder if i spelled it correct?)
By Dusty on May 9, 2008 | Reply
I was thinking of the word Power..like you. As for your spelling of indistinguishable, yep its right!