Debts paid, Hillary Clinton builds $3+ million campaign fund for ...?

[masuki bance]

With all of the immense numbers coming out of Washington these days, former senator, ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign debt is chump change. Make that, "was."

Here's the news: There is no more Hillary Clinton campaign debt.

In fact, there's a campaign fund surplus.

And, in fact, while the current secretary of State officially left politics on being sworn into the Obama administration's top diplomatic post and says future political office "is not anything that is at all on my radar screen," she's still got eight campaign workers on staff. She's also said, "I'm out of politics."

Hmmm. Note the present tense in that statement.

Of course, she's out of politics now. Also of course, who knows what the situation will be in 2012? Who'd have guessed three years ago she'd be showing her management skills by running the huge Department of State? For a president named Barack Obama?

Or what about 2016? She'd be 69 then. Her good friend, John McCain, wasn't too old to run at 72. Too old to win, but not too old to run.

As the N.Y. Daily News reports, Clinton's $22 million in campaign debts (a good chunk of it owed to herself), has somehow now turned into some $3+ million in cash on hand and still growing, some in her old Senate fund and some in her defunct presidential campaign warchest.

...

The old campaign, which spent $100,000 on staff last quarter, says it's winding down and will soon drop from eight staffers down to five. Clinton's former New York senatorial colleague, Chuck Schumer, has to run a campaign next year. He's only got three fulltimers.

One other thing: There's probably no connection. So many things have changed. But as The Ticket reported here 54 weeks ago, business friends of Hillary Rodham Clinton have purchased the web domain name HRC2012.

Hmmm.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/hillary-clinton-money.html

[DJ13]

1. Hypothetical

Suppose the DLC'ers (former Clinton people) that dominate Obama's Cabinet and staff quietly worked in the backround to undermine Obama as 2012 approached..........

[Deep13]

9. Yeah, because Obama's a real socialist!

:eyes:

[DJ13]

16. Too much coffee?

Where did I say anything about Obama being a socialist?

[Deep13]

21. You suggested a primary threat would come from the right...

...against a very liberal Obama. He isn't all that liberal, is my point.

[DevonRex]

2. Or the domain could have been bought to prevent nutcases from using it.

[xultar]

3. Schoolin' Palin's dumb ass. Clinton has more money than Palin without trying.

:rofl:

[Blaze Diem]

4. Love her. At this point in her life, Hillary is capable of taking on anything she wants to.

She would give this country the health program it needs. She's wanted that for a long time. And tried until ol Newt shut her up.

She is capable of world policy. Knows finance and infrastructure. Understands human dignity.
Government is her life. She is iconic and if she wanted to be the President of the United States and restore it to the greatest society of the free world that it is capable of being, she could do it with seeming ease.

With the GOP in a fractured freefall of fringe groups, Hillary holds the world in her hands.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Indeed. Her track record of healthcare reform results is legend...

I totally understand why you think that way.

[Autumn]

8. Hey she tried. n/t

[Deep13]

11. Right, people can only learn for past successes, never failures.

:grr:

[BlooInBloo]

12. Anyone else can learn from her failure as well.

[Deep13]

14. Yup. Hopefully it will happen soon. nt

[Cha]

10. No she doesn't ..she works with a team.

And, she seems to be doing well with Team Obama.

[hedgehog]

5. If Hillary is seen as undercutting Obama in the name of politics,

things would go very badly for her.

[Blaze Diem]

7. I don't see her undermining Obama. She's not that stupid.

Whatever is in her future plans, it has been absolutely been made in accordance with President Obama's future plans.

They are powerful people that no one from the Right wing could go up against and win.

Together they could easily bring the GOP to its end.

[Deep13]

13. "Together they could easily bring the GOP to its end."

We're waiting.

[Blaze Diem]

15. Yes, I said "together". But if Obama, with all his power falls short of using it

to show who's side he's on..then I welcome Hillary Rodham Clinton to the game and support her.

I've supported Obama.
BUT I question many of his decisions, and many have taken me by suprise since it was not what I heard him campaign on.

I'll give him 4 years to make me realize that he wins the chess game all say he's playing.
He is bright and I thought more brilliant than some of his decisions have revealed.

I wonder if he gets it..with all the power he holds.
I don't believe that if Hillary were President, the Bush/Cheney GOP would be sitting as comfortably as they are.

That's the Hillary Clinton I know. Who I have followed since her emergence as First Lady.
She would know what to do with such power in her hands.

That's why I believe the two of them would be remarkable if not for Obama's need to make nice to the GOP & policies of the Bush years.

Hillary wouldn't waste a moment hanging Cheney or Bush on the line for a well earned public flogging.
She has some old scores to settle. I don't think she's forgotten any of them.

[ronnykmarshall]

17. Stand by ....

[Beacool]

18. So?

Hillary may choose to run for the WH after Obama's terms end or maybe run for governor.

What's the problem?

:shrug:

[PretzelWarrior]

19. I'm liking a Hillary in 2016 run. Regardless of how 2012 turns out.

[flpoljunkie]

20. That's not what Clintons's latest FEC report says...

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?_29934275324+0

The Hillary Clinton for President campaign has $2,548,805.46 cash on hand and still has debts totally $1,500,166.61.

[GrantDem]

22. HRC2012 doesn't necessarily mean a rum for the White House

Could be planning a run for some other office in 2012.