Speculation is the debt is actually 20-30 million..
but that could be Clintons inflating numbers hoping
Obama will pay it off.
I say he just let's her run . With the Peter Paul
trial being set things are only going to get uglier
for the Clintons.
http://www.hillar...
I say let the next week or so soften her up.
And Obama can probably just not give her anything.
She's hitting critical mass. Even staunch reporters
see it.
Obama won't have to bend to her demands.--- christophe
chaumont <[address removed]> wrote:
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> May 9, 2008, 12:08 pm
> Clinton’s Endgame Strategy?
> By Katharine Q. Seelye
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> Let’s throw this into the mix of speculation about
> what Senator Hillary Clinton is up to with those
> remarks about whites and a new letter today from 16
> House members to superdelegates in the House: maybe
> they are part of an elaborate bargaining package.
> You’ve heard Mrs. Clinton’s remarks by now: she told
> USA Today on Wednesday, “I have a much broader base
> to build a winning coalition on.” She then cited an
> Associated Press story that “found how Senator
> Obama’s support among working, hard-working
> Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and
> how whites in both states who had not completed
> college were supporting me.”
> And a Clinton-generated letter today from 16 House
> members who support Mrs. Clinton keeps up the
> drumbeat, though not quite as explicitly. It refers
> to “her ability to connect with voters we must
> deliver in the fall, including blue collar Democrats
> who can sway this election as they have in the
> past.”
> Now, she could be making what she believes is a
> legitimate argument — that she is the better
> candidate in November because those white voters are
> an essential part of any winning coalition, although
> in North Carolina and Indiana Mr. Obama did better
> among them than he had in Pennsylvania. She may also
> be signaling to her supporters in the largely white
> states coming up that they need to turn out for her
> in greater numbers, to boost her overall popular
> vote.
> But in the eyes of the party, and certainly in the
> eyes of the Obama campaign, those remarks are
> divisive and inflammatory.Could part of Mrs.
> Clinton’s calculation here be that the more she
> veers into dangerous territory, the quicker Mr.
> Obama will come to the bargaining table? The quicker
> he will meet her demands?
> That, of course, leads to the inevitable question:
> What does she want Mr. Obama to do?
> Here are some possibilities:
> 1. Pay off her campaign debt of more than $11
> million, a task that Tom Edsall at the
> Huffingtonpost says is complicated by the fact that
> she owes much of that money to Mark Penn;
> 2. Seat the full delegations from Michigan and
> Florida. This wouldn’t give her enough delegates to
> overcome Mr. Obama’s lead, but it would drastically
> improve her overall popular vote. By itself, an
> improved popular vote would not win her the
> nomination, but she could use it as a bargaining
> chip. And it could help her save face by allowing
> her to say she fulfilled her crusade for all states
> to have their say (even if all voters in those two
> states will not have had their votes count). And
> there’s the legacy issue, and how her performance is
> recorded in the history books.
> 3. Put her on the ticket as vice president, or at
> least ask her to consider it.
> 4. Help her exit in some other face-saving way.
> Then once the package is worked out, the arguments
> against Mr. Obama cease.
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