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70 top Clinton donors switch to Obama - and go on the record

by: Pam Spaulding

Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 14:30:00 PM EDT


(UPDATE: Now you know the Clinton campaign is swirling the drain - loose cannon Bill is now chief strategist. Now that's trouble. Campaign Manager Maggie Williams:"has worked to ensure that Mr. Clinton's role is 'managed' in an attempt to prevent costly remarks." Oh, man.)

Inside the Clinton campaign bubble, they simply cannot see that it's game over no matter what the math looks like. When you have top donors not only switching to Obama but also going on the record about how Clinton is damaging the party, this is a PR nightmare. (WaPo):

More than 70 top Clinton donors wrote their first checks to Obama in March, campaign records show. Clinton's lead among superdelegates, a collection of almost 800 party leaders and elected officials, has slipped from 106 in December to 23 now, according to an Associated Press tally.
I mentioned in my post yesterday about the interview with House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (SC) about the effect of the Clinton campaign burning bridges with black voters. With all of the talk about her courting of the blue-collar white vote, there has been little attention to this fact:
"We keep talking as if it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter that Obama gets 92 percent of the black vote, because since he only got 35 percent of the white vote, he's in trouble," Clyburn said. "Well, Hillary Clinton only got 8 percent of the black vote. . . . It's almost saying black people don't matter. The only thing that matters is how white people respond. And that's what bothered me. I think I matter."
In this primary season we've heard a lot about what doesn't matter -- caucuses, party "activists", the netroots, the delegate count, the popular vote, Southern states -- the list goes on and on. However, since blacks don't matter, are we now going to see that the Democratic donor base doesn't matter either? Will this be what it takes to get the attention of the win at any cost Clinton camp?
There are signs that the anger voiced by some African Americans is beginning to extend to the Democratic donor base. Campaign finance records released this week show that a growing number of Clinton's early supporters migrated to Obama in March, after he achieved 11 straight victories. Of those who had previously made maximum contributions to Clinton, 73 wrote their first checks to Obama in March. The reverse was not true: Of those who had made large contributions to Obama last year, none wrote checks to Clinton in March.
Pam Spaulding :: 70 top Clinton donors switch to Obama - and go on the record
"I think she is destroying the Democratic Party," said New York lawyer Daniel Berger, who had backed Clinton with the maximum allowable donation of $2,300. "That there's no way for her to win this election except by destroying [Obama], I just don't like it. So in my own little way, I'm trying to send her a message."
What is surprising is that these wealthy donors are going on the record, and not holding back their dissatisfaction with the state of things.

Guerra-Mondragón: "Looking at it as coldly as I can, I just don't see how Senator Clinton can overcome Senator Obama with delegates and popular votes. I want this fight to be over -- the quicker, the better."

New York financier William Louis-Dreyfus:

"However much one might have supported the Clintons, or one might support the usual suspects in the Democratic Party, I began to believe Obama represents a new approach. He gives off such a sense of relevance that he's sort of irresistible.

"At the end of the day, all she had to do was open her mouth for me not to believe her."

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Good.
And maybe this will ALSO show people just how crappy the mainstream media is, since their "narrative of the week" is parroting the Clinton administration's BS about Obama "not being electable," which doesn't even pass the giggle test.

Meanwhile, in the real world, real donors and real superdelegates and real politicians are assessing the situation and looking for the right moment to jump off the sinking Clinton ship.


http://breakthterror.blogspot.com


haha
"Clinton Administration."

i said "Clinton Administration."

screw THAT.

Clinton CAMPAIGN!

duh.

http://breakthterror.blogspot.com


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No "duh"
it's exactly what the Clinton team WANTED us all to think, believe, support, vote for- an ad hoc administration decided before Super Tuesday, let alone before the convention. America was supposed to give Hillary a blank playbook on a silver platter, so she could leisurely decide how to fill it in.

They are SO PISSED that Obama didn't get the memo.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


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You were right the first time: Clinton Redux
They've been like a government-in-exile, waiting to take control.  Everything was supposed to nurture the image of their inevitability: nobody could raise as much money as she could (hah!); nobody had as much experience as she did (depends on whether that's real experience or imaginary sniper fire experience); nobody could galvanize the party like she could (watch those negatives rise!).

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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Galvanizing the party
...nobody could galvanize the party like she could (watch those negatives rise!).

Unfortunately for her, that part is turning out to be TRUE.  Just not in the direction she expected.


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And the beat goes on. . . .
Pam, we must be on the same wavelength.  :-)  I posted an excerpt from the WaPo with link about the donors this morning at "Black Leader in House warns Clinton of the damage of win-at-all-costs" as a follow-up to that discussion.  :-)  I think it's huge that major donors are turning their backs on her because of the tone of the campaign, while poor little Geoff Garin of her campaign is calling the Obama campaign "mean-spirited":

http://www.startribune.com/opi...

This is yet another page from the GOP playbook: project what you're doing and what you are onto your opponent.

Meanwhile, my own state of Michigan continues to be an embarrassment.  Governor Granholm, whom I've admired, is calling for the Michigan delegates to be counted, and is slinging the same hash about the popular vote:

http://www.michiganliberal.com...

And as John Stewart has shown, for Clinton it was all about "the voters" when she was in the lead, and then when she wasn't, suddenly, voters don't sound so wonderful compared to the superdelegates:

"We do a great disservice to those who have a record of service, who have independent experience with candidates" Clinton claimed. "Which voters don't have. They see us from afar, they come to a speech, they watch us on television, and they vote. And that is part of the process - and an important part."

Can it get any more desperate or tacky?  Probably.  You have to watch her face during this disquisition and listen to her tone--she is dissing voters royally as uninformed and superficial.  It's appalling.

Clip here:

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/...


"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report


Don't you mean dissing voters "Crown" royally?
Just sayin'.

What is she gonna do when she runs out of states- demand that Canada and Mexico get to vote as well?

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


[ Parent ]
LOL
LOL: Louise Offers Laughs

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

[ Parent ]
Uh...
Maybe officially declare Iraq a U.S. territory and allow Iraqis to vote?

Just kidding, all. :)

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[ Parent ]
Don't give the Clintons that idea,
  If it means winning they just might try it.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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Who'd know?
I heard someone on CNN call Puerto Rico a "territory" when it's a commonwealth.  And there are people who think New Mexico is part of (old) Mexico.  But that place is where the Traitor Bill Richardson comes from, so maybe the less said about it, the better.  Shhh!!

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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Just say NO
 too the Clintons.  Yeah, like that worked in the 80s.

I have given up watch the news for the most part. Nothing new coming from the news.  I did stomach part of a Tweety show and even part of a Hannity and Colmes only to watch the same old reruns of Rev. Wright.

I find it amazing that Jon Stewart on Comedy Central is the only one questioning McCain and his religious nut case.

 

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


It may end in North Carolina
Looking at North Carolina's demographics, there is no way short of divine intervention that Clinton will come within five points of Obama. Even with divine intervention, she won't win there.

Hats off to North Carolinians, I say.

And yes, I am calling it. If I am wrong, you can throw eggs at my face later. :)

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this primary....
As painful as this miserable primary might be, it might not be such a bad thing that we're having a shootout in the Democratic Party.  The old guard has run the show long enough, and if we can put Obama over the top it will be the first step in making our Party truly progressive, and defeating the Clinton/McAuliffe/DLC faction, and their top-down ideology.  I want to beat them just as much as the GOP-- they are part of the same problem.  They just don't get it when it comes to people-powered, populist politics.

Somehow, this just seems fitting
From The Onion.  I don't think I should add any editorial comment :)

I'm only a click away.

What do you think about Clyburn's remarks?
Clyburn said that a lot of people think that the goal is no longer to get Hillary the nomination - they know it's lost. The goal now is to make sure Barack can't win so Hillary can take the office in 2012.

How do you respond to the feminist community that is backing Hillary over Obama because she's a woman? I took a lot of flack from women for finally picking Obama. There has been a lot of misogyny directed at her, but I don't think that means I have to vote for someone I don't trust just because she has a vagina.

I think Barack has been really trying to take the high road, and I commend him for it, but I wish he had been a little more forceful about defending Rev. Wright and not accepting the "elitist" tag. Chris Matthews is killling himself tryin gto paint Obama as an elite sissy, and I think that needs to be addressed ASAP. Too many people are stupid enough to buy it.


the sissy/elitist meme
This is covered in detail in Glenn Greenwald's new book, Great American Hypocrites. The painting of male Dem candidates as effete, elitist and soft by the right and the MSM is a tried and true means of denigrating them. Look at how John Edwards (Breck Girl) and John Kerry (elite windsurfer) were cut down by irrelevancies like this.

Obama does have to take it head on, because this will continue.

As far as the feminist community goes, I'm with you 100% on this. I don't owe Clinton my vote because she's a woman, nor do I owe Obama my vote because he's black. I simply have problems with THIS woman, who represents all the old school, tired, divisive politics that needs to be swept out of DC. The whole campaign is rife with the self-preserving "we're better/smarter than all of you consultant class just waiting to slide into a Clinton administration.


[ Parent ]
...remember she is also smarter.
Than any and ALL American voters who pay attention to the MSM. That was a real smear she did on all of us the other day! I am proud of my vote and try to use it wisely.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


[ Parent ]
Maureen Dowd is a prime mover--
--of this meme: Dems are fems.

She has been calling him Obambi for months, saying he's intimidated by strong women blahblahblah.  She is obsessed with this to a degree beyond satire--it's deeply unhealthy and points to something very strange in her psyche.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report


[ Parent ]
I'm been saying
the same thing re: Clinton 2012 strategy for awhile now.

I share your feelings about feminists who demand "we women vote for a woman first". Regarding voting with my vagina... just can't do that. One, it won't reach the lever and two, I don't know where that lever has been!  

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


[ Parent ]
That's why those butterfly ballots--
--caused so much trouble in Florida!

:-)

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report


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