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Concern Reminder: Payoff Day
I know it's been fretting everyone worried about Hillary's unpaid creditors, those little vendors, a year back, but just in case you missed it, as of the end of June, her campaign is finally in the black. Actually she'd paid off everyone but Mark Penn by end of March and only had 4 others left by end of last December (she paid Penn $3 million in the 1st quarter leaving him the sole unpaid creditor at $2.3 million to finish off).
Folks at the NY Times must be relieved since even last June they were fretting that people like John Glenn had taken 20 years to pay off a $3 million debt, and that it would take Hillary years to pay off hers, and even in November there was a flurry of concern that fund-raising would distract from Hillary's new job at State (actually it looks like she's only had Penn to worry about since assuming office). Well, it took a year, but now Clinton can fully focus on her duties and those little creditors can sleep well at night.
Now for those who maintain concern about this type of thing, Rudy Giuliani still owes $2.9 million & Chris Dodd still had $300K to pay as of end of June, and John Edwards still had a $333K debt from 2004. Hard to imagine Edwards being a viable candidate in 2008 with such utter disregard for those little unpaid vendors. Guess that's how politics works.
PS - Hillary's been in Africa this week speaking against corruption, lack of repercussion for torture (hope she makes a talking tour here), lending some support for Africa's only female leader, and of course highlighting the horrific rape conditions in the Congo. And as one blogger notes, continuing our mad destructive self-defeating policy in Somalia.
Folks at the NY Times must be relieved since even last June they were fretting that people like John Glenn had taken 20 years to pay off a $3 million debt, and that it would take Hillary years to pay off hers, and even in November there was a flurry of concern that fund-raising would distract from Hillary's new job at State (actually it looks like she's only had Penn to worry about since assuming office). Well, it took a year, but now Clinton can fully focus on her duties and those little creditors can sleep well at night.
Now for those who maintain concern about this type of thing, Rudy Giuliani still owes $2.9 million & Chris Dodd still had $300K to pay as of end of June, and John Edwards still had a $333K debt from 2004. Hard to imagine Edwards being a viable candidate in 2008 with such utter disregard for those little unpaid vendors. Guess that's how politics works.
PS - Hillary's been in Africa this week speaking against corruption, lack of repercussion for torture (hope she makes a talking tour here), lending some support for Africa's only female leader, and of course highlighting the horrific rape conditions in the Congo. And as one blogger notes, continuing our mad destructive self-defeating policy in Somalia.
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You forgot to explain how she was really only sent there to retreive and destroy Obama's real birth certificate.
August 13, 2009 7:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's still secret - code-named "Ebola Burning". Turns out Obama's one of the first test-tube babies (note there are no actual *pictures* of his parents having sex), transplanted to Africa for early CIA tests with HIV by Louis Leakey - Barack was actually born in a chimp & gorilla camp at the Gombe Preserve in Tanzania, with Jane Goodall as his early wet nurse at Olduvai Gorge. [Trace DNA from Obama's basketball sweat reveals he shares 50% chromosome compatibility with Lucy, a breakthrough in cross-geologic era splicing and proof that Ann Dunham isn't even his mother - take that, Birthers - a 3.2 million year old hominin. Of course that make challenge a few people's evolution beliefs, but for the right political cause, any scientific/religious belief can be temporarily suspended].
Word is that the baby in Brüno is Barack's love child as well - note his affinity for Blackberry texting and Facebook, and his natural affinity for the Jerry Springer-like audience.
August 13, 2009 9:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
uh oh . . . Now I'm worried that Orly is going to get ahold of this comment and go screaming: "See I told you so!" ;)
August 13, 2009 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh god, I wish I could do a response in the same vein that kept this going for a while, but the truth is that you just made me shoot coffee through my nose.
August 13, 2009 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Classic, Desi :) Further evidence that Baby OJ is Obama's love chid.
August 13, 2009 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Deej, you came so close...
Poop and Change
August 13, 2009 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for posting this, Des.
I nominate the following as the best smackdown of 2009: You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?
Makes me fall down laughing. The NYPost is having fun with it, of course.
Imagine what she said to Mark Penn.
August 13, 2009 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Check's in the male?
August 13, 2009 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I very rarely comment on Somalia, because I only pipe up on the easy questions where i have all the answers ;) I wish there were some easy answers but I do think Hillary and the Obama Admin have made some change that is going to be beneficial to the weak government that is currently existing there.
Under GWB the CIA was backing various warlords and was supportive of Ethopia's military intervention... which is kind of like India being used as a peacekeeping force in Pakistan. Given the longstanding tensions between Ethipia and Somalia, someone might have thought this was not the best idea. Add in that the Ethiopian forces were tacitly backed by the US and well, you can't get more self-defeating than that.
At least under Sec. Clinton and Obama, the US is supportive of the transitional government which includes elements of the Islamic Court Union (the parts that didn't splinter off into extremist/insurgent activity like al-Shabbab). We are not supporting Ethiopian incursions into Somalia. We are advocating more African Union peacekeeping forces. It's a step in the right direction.
August 13, 2009 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, I have no clue.
August 13, 2009 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary has paid off her campaign debt (and did anyone notice that the Clintons have a net worth of over $100 million?), and meanwhile...
What's the news from Allaybaday, Baligubadle, and Sabawanag in Woqooyi Galbeed?
Only 48?
I don't believe it!
August 14, 2009 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well believe it. And it's only going to get worse, mark my words.
August 18, 2009 7:46 AM | Reply | Permalink