Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be wearing matching outfits in well-choreographed appearances, but their supporters are not singing from the Sir Paul & Jacko songbook quite yet.
The first hint should have been that their Thursday evening meeting with donors and fund-raisers was initially closed to the press. The Obama campaign ultimately relented, allowing a pool reporter to cover the event. The pool report by the Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray suggested both candidates were warmly received, and that Obama got a standing O! when he said he had told his donors to help retire Clinton’s campaign debt.
But after Murray was ushered from the room, Obama was subjected to some edgy questions and had an awkard encounter with Lanny Davis. Marc Ambinder quotes one attendee as saying the mood was one of “guarded optimism.” However, Howard Fineman surveyed some of the Clinton donors at the event (and some Obama fundraisers) and finds relations between the two camps remain strained.
The situation here seems simple on the surface. Obama needs access to — and money from — Clinton’s donors. Clinton wants Obama to help retire her campaign debt. A variation on The Godfather rule would seem applicable: “It’s not personal, it’s politics.” But Democrats tend to believe the personal is the political — and vice versa. And so the soap opera seems destined to drag out for longer than it should.
I guess someone wants some CHANGE to go with that shake.
– Its always refreshing to see the Left has feet of clay like all the rest of us. Except of course in their case, the clay continues all the way up into their cranial pans.
I do find it pretty freakin unbelievable that after her and her husband make over 100 million in the last couple years, they still want to bilk their own supporters for just a little more CHANGE so they can pay off THEIR debt. I guess there wasn’t any Chinese willing to back a loser.
– And before you whine ProgHorn, you have to admit that at PW at least you get insulted with panache’. (or would that be pan-ache’?)
– Ugh. Did I just hear the other Shu drop?
If McCain is smart enough to choose Palin, he’ll grab a good 25-30% of Hillary’s base right off the top.
I think right about now Shu would be better off taking all his money and putting it on 31 black than on Hillary’s chances on winning the nomination or Vice Presidency.
Yes BBH the insults here do have some flavor. Thank you for feeding my black hearted inner troll.
Tis sad times when passing ruffians can say “nigh” to an old woman!
– I agree SPB. Sarah sure can bring it.
Demo-rats you can believe in!
Somehow, I think there is a lot LESS drama than there appears to be on the surface.
But it is entertaining to speculate.
Comment by Lisa on 6/27 @ 7:04 pm #
Somehow, I think there is a lot LESS drama than there appears to be on the surface.
But it is entertaining to speculate.
Bill and Michelle got camerashy real quick!
Well said.
Lisa,
There may be less drama between O! and H!
But among the donors, there’s probably still some residual PUMAtude.
When you’re a donor, writing a check is the easiest thing in the world though. It’s kind of like the every problem’s a nail deal I think.
Possibly. It is very clear that the backers and donors were literally scratching each other’s eyes out. They are still licking their wounds. And a lot of the resentment is that these Baby Boomer Murphy Brownish Linda Bloodworth-Thomason types were SURE that the 90s were coming back and they were gonna be back in the saddle – but More Freaking Awesome Than Evah!! They were sooooo not ready to pass the torch and see it as having been snatched away by a bunch of arrogant and impatient ingrates. I am thinking that that rift will probably never truly mend.
Yeah, Barry wasn’t on Emily’s list?
I heard some of Rush today, for a couple minutes, and had to search out this transcript…
Here, I’ll help him out…Hillary ate a shit sandwich today.
And had to beg for more. Nice!
Karl, I am sick of you pricks. You will agitate any little occasion; step back and look how silly you seem.
cynn, you’ll be missed.
Just for you, cynn:
This is a man who has already made history and wants to be the most powerful person on Earth. Tell me who seems silly and petty.
Did Romney hit McCain up for money in return for his backing, cynn? Did the losers hit up Kerry in 04, or Gore in 00? Can you name one time in the history of American politics anything this crass, brazen and downright low rent has ever went down? And yet the press acts like it is perfectly fucking normal.
Karl, I am sick of you pricks. You will agitate any little occasion; step back and look how silly you seem.
Yes, it’s Karl’s fault that the Dems have flown the Good Ship Identity Politics right into the ground.
Heh.
“Karl, I am sick of you pricks.”
Yet she keeps returning.
WOW! Cynn.
I hope that I am one of “you pricks”.
“Pricks” apparently meaning “You logical dinosaurs”.
Karl, I am sick of you pricks. You will agitate any little occasion; step back and look how silly you seem.
WTF, do you know how silly you seem typing, “Karl, I am sick of you pricks.”, without using an exclamation mark(!).
Haha, cynn got sick on your prick.
Hey, cynn:
I will not suck PW prick;
Classic lib’rals make me sick.
I will not suck it here or there,
I will not suck it anywhere.
I do not like PW prick,
I’d rather munch Obama’s dick.
Next up: The Cat in the Hat explains Juche.
Is this thread dead? Because I stumbled across this bit of (nearly) fresh frothmeat from a feminist near-feral over Hillary’s fall…
I don’t think I would ever support a party that ‘hates women all the time’. And because I have concerns about unborn women that makes me hate women?
Sheesh. There’s absolutely no reason in that poor person’s head. She’s filled to the gills with mistaken identity.
Hey, Spies, Brigands and Pirates:
Cynn has developed an intelligent writing style. Stick to giving discreet math pop quizzes. You are not her.
Hey, thor: don’t try to run with the big dogs or I’ll have to publicly humiliate you again.
Looks like my pointing out you can’t run with cynn has hurt your “Big Dog” pride.
How’s summer school going, are your kids well behaved?