How was it not dishonest for Hillary to hide her financial troubles

[Big Blue Marble]

until the day after Super Tuesday. The American voters had a right to know that
her finances were in the tank before they voted yesterday.

There is more than a hint of disingenuity to this maneuver.

One more time she gamed the system and played the voters.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

1. what troubles. She has plenty of money.

[adabfree]

10. HA!

[TheWraith]

32. Uh, no. She's in hock, as a matter of fact.

She had to loan her own campaign $5 million to keep going until ST, and now they may have to do it again. Also, key staffers including her campaign manager are going without pay this month.

[earthlover]

36. You're right...her CAMPAIGN has financial problems...she is rich as hell

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. You have lost all human reasoning ability.

[Deja Q]

6. This is GD-P. Since when do ANY of us qualify for the ability to reason?

[TwilightGardener]

3. Maybe her staff leaked it, for sympathy and to raise money--trying to pull

a McCain "comeback" story. She WANTS Obama to look like the frontrunner, I think.

[northzax]

11. ding ding ding

it leaked. why?

[Big Blue Marble]

23. It was not leaked.

Mark Halperin asked this morning. There must have been rumors.
Now it is pouring out. Strange the day after the most significant primary schedule on the calendar.

[ElizabethDC]

25. That's what I've been thinking.

Because I know I feel really motivated to donate to her today (and I will do so), and I've talked to other Hillary supporters who say they feel the same. So, this could be a ploy to get us to donate more. And I don't really mind if it is.

[earthlover]

38. If you think your candidate would use this as a "ploy" maybe you have the wrong candidate!

Unless you enjoy being USED....

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Deluded.

[Big Blue Marble]

14. One more time it was the voters who were deluded.

That is what I dislike the most about Hillary. She will use false imagery over substance every time.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

21. Deluded.

[Big Blue Marble]

33. You are repeating yourself to no avail.

They should have reported the loan.

[AGirl]

5. You are an idiot.

[goldcanyonaz]

7. Uh huh...

[IndieLeft]

8. It's nothing she hasn't done before.

...Peter Paul

[NashVegas]

9. Who Asked Her? Who Required the Disclosure? Did She Break Any Laws You're Aware Of?

Hmmm?

[onenote]

12. So you think voters should decide based on how much money a campaign has?

[Big Blue Marble]

16. If it didn't matter, why didn't she tell us?

Because if her campaign is struggling financially, she would appear weaker than she wanted
us to know. That is why she did not tell us. She knew it would matter.

[onenote]

27. I didn't say whether it would matter. I asked whether it should?

Should voters decide based on how much money a campaign has? If not, then its not terribly relevant. It will come out when it comes out.

BTW, I'm leaning towards Obama, but I think some of the things tossed around on GD-P by both Obama supporters and Clinton supporters are just silly. This is one of them.

[Big Blue Marble]

35. In politics, perception is everything.

And she knows that better than anyone. Voters should know where the funds are coming from.

If you are self-financing, they have a right to know.

If a big super duper organization like hers can't pay its senior staff, the voters have the right to know.

I very much disagree that it is silly. Hiding this crisis until after the election yesterday,
speaks directly to what many of us dislike about Hillary the most.

That she is disingenuous. That we do not feel we can trust her.

[GoldieAZ49]

13. What was reported Jan donations O - 32 Mil.......H over 10 Mill

[niceypoo]

15. I have yet to see an iota of proof of these financial 'troubles'

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp">2 seconds worth of research is all it takes

[Big Blue Marble]

20. Her main staffers working for free is not trouble?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. All is fair in love, war, and politics

Politics is a dirty business. Everything is subject to calculation and strategy and no politician is above it.

[Zynx]

18. So we have to vote for candidates based on their bank roll?

[Big Blue Marble]

26. No, we vote for them based

on their honesty with the American people, hopefully.

[onenote]

28. who gave to Obama last week?

Not disclosed? Of course not. Doesn't have to be. Doesn't make him dishonest. And not disclosing the loan before it was required to be disclosed isn't dishonest either.

[sniffa]

30. It depends on what the meaning of parse is

[TexasObserver]

19. it was shady, failing to disclose until after Super Tuesday

Anyone who can't figure out why that is so probably doesn't have a problem with how Hillary runs a campaign.

[adabfree]

22. Very shady indeed

[onenote]

29. why?

[zulchzulu]

24. I suggest we give the Hillaryworld campaign a dollar a day

Since it probably costs about two bucks to perform the transaction, send an email, manage the account and then do follow up emails, why not chip in a buck.

:rofl:

[MzShellG]

31. My post from another thread.......

If she is running out of money before Super Tuesday, what does that say about her budgeting skills? Is that how she will handle the country's economy? Don't even mention the 'surplus'. That surplus was just a result of them kicking poor people off of welfare. Then when Bush came, he ruined the so-called surplus, while the homeless/jobless rate sky rocketed. As the 'front runner', she shouldn't be having to lend her own campaign any money. Why is she really out of dough anyway? Did she blow her campaign money buying super delegates? Hmmmmmm.....Seems pretty suspicious to me. I'm not buying their excuses.

[alstephenson]

34. Get a life, folks.

[no name no slogan]

37. Quite frankly, I don't think it matters

Democrats are NEVER good at managing campaign money. You show me a Democrat who successfully manages their campaign $$$, and I'll show you a Republican.

[Big Blue Marble]

39. That of course is a rationalization.

I am not concerned how she spent her money.

I am concerned that she hid that she needed to borrow her own money to keep going.

If she did not think it would be a problem she would have reported it.

[AZBlue]

40. And actually she didn't exactly bring it up.

She admitted it when asked, but if she hadn't been asked, we still wouldn't know.