Clinton to raise 100 million dollars for primary

[bigdarryl]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/hillary-clinton-campaign_n_7112800.html

[AtomicKitten]

1. "Hillary's $2.5 Billion Obscene Fundraising Goal"

I'm assuming this is for the primary and general election in toto:

Hillary's $2.5 Billion Obscene Fundraising Goal:
http://nypost.com/2015/04/14/hillarys-2-5-billion-obscene-fundraising-goal/

Why Does Hillary Need $2.5 Billion for Her Campaign?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-heffernan/why-does-hillary-need-25-_b_7056586.html

Hillary Clinton to Announce 2016 Run for President on Sunday
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-to-announce-2016-run-for-president-on-sunday.html?_r=1

[geek tragedy]

2. nice of you to use the Murdoch Post's headline as your own. nt

[AtomicKitten]

3. Thanks.

Headlines being mean to Hillary again? The kind of cash her campaign is bragging about IS obscene.

She's trying to make the election a contest of who can amass the biggest pile of cash. It's like a poker game in which Hillary is betting the leaked/announced $100 million and unless somebody calls, she wins the Democratic nomination.

That's not democracy. It's an embrace of Citizens United and it's obscene.

[geek tragedy]

4. That cash will be needed to contend with Jeb Bush's death star superpac

or Scott Walker's sugar daddies the Koch Brothers.

Citizens United is the rule. It is foolish to advocate losing the game because we don't like the rules.

[AtomicKitten]

5. $100 million per the OP is earmarked for the primary.

[geek tragedy]

6. Infrastructure and staffers and technology built during the primary

can be used during the general.

[AtomicKitten]

7. The money is obscene.

Hillary's embrace of Citizens United is obscene. She has no message, no response to tough questions. Her record has been cherry picked and fluffed, and her makeover demeanor Stepford wife on Quaaludes. She is micromanaged every step of the way. Schumer and Dean have advocated no primary. No primary means no debates. Will they go that far to protect her?

But damn if she doesn't have a giant pile of cash.

Cash over substance.

Cash over democracy.

[geek tragedy]

8. "Stepford wife on Quaaludes"

That's not policy criticism, that's rightwing-style hating with a side of sexism thrown in for good measure.

And, again, she wants Citizens United overruled by constitutional amendment, but Citizens United is the LAW until that happens.

[AtomicKitten]

9. SEXISM ALERT!! Accusation in record time!!

[geek tragedy]

10. you used sexist language to attack her.

Maybe you should avoid doing that

[AtomicKitten]

12. Bullshit and you should take more care in flinging those accusations, though I expect most of us

... here are familiar with it used as a ploy by the Clinton campaign to manipulate debate.

Maybe you should avoid doing that.

[geek tragedy]

13. No, my objections to your use of sexist attacks on a Democrat is not

an example of the Great Clintonite Conspiracy to intimidate you.

The only thing Clinton has in common with stepford wives is blond hair and the female gender.

Do the math.

[AtomicKitten]

14. You don't know what you are talking about.

I commented on demeanor, not physical appearance as you seem to have misconstrued it.

DEMEANOR: Look it up. Seriously, you do the math.

She had a political makeover and the end result is a tough-issue-averse candidate who regurgitates platitudes instead of solutions, the exact opposite of inspirational.

And, according to you, she's against Citizens United. That takes such a level of cognitive dissonance I feel like baking you a cake or something. Spectacular.

off to work now. Have a great evening.

[geek tragedy]

15. You seem unable to comprehend the reality that people can think the rules suck

but also try their best to win while playing within the rules.

That's a pity.

[joshcryer]

16. She earned 72 million in the 2008 primaries.

Obama earned 71 million.

That's 140 million between them.

With Oligarchy United and Citizens United that $100 million may actually be too small.

[brooklynite]

11. She has $10,000 of mine...

Is anyone prepared to say we should unilaterally disengage regardless of how much the Republicans and the Koch Brothers spend?

Out of curiosity (and seriously) How WOULD Bernie Sanders raise the money he'd need to go after the Republican juggernaut?

[UCmeNdc]

17. Good for her! Go on and raise that money. That is what is needed to win a US Presidential Election

Call it Citizen's United money.

[davidpdx]

18. I'm pretty sure if she wins the primary between that and the GE she'll end up raising and spending

$2 billion. The reasons she needs that much in the primary is because her opponents are weak and the Republicans are going to be attacking her directly.

[Sunlei]

19. costs a lot . I'm still grateful for the romney economic stimulus$$, loser spent a billion.