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jasmine621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:15 AM
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The party should retire Clinton's debt to retire her from the campaign.
This is an honorable way out. Let the elections take place in W.VA and Kentucy and then let her announce her exit debt free.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:16 AM
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1. no way. she made her choices knowing she wouldnt/couldnt win
repercussion of actions....
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:16 AM
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2. She should have stopped spending money trashing other dems.
Edited on Wed May-07-08 09:17 AM by Kittycat
They have $109M, we shouldn't pay for their mistake.

ETA: I don't want that slimeball Penn getting a single cent of my money.
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GoesTo11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:46 AM
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13. It's not about HRC. It's about USA.
I don't know about the paying off the debt idea, but I don't think it's good to let annoyance with the individual candidate to lead to anything that could hurt the party's chances in November just to teach her a lesson or something like that.
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:17 AM
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3. Baloney. Not if they haven't paid Dodd, Biden, Kucinich, Edwards, Richardson
Edited on Wed May-07-08 09:18 AM by JoeIsOneOfUs
Who knew how to exit gracefully. And who didn't spend huge sums trashing the other Dem. candidates. And who did a better job managing their smaller campaign funds than she did.

Let Bill's buddies pay it off.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:20 AM
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4. Screw that
After her run through the gutter?
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godai Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:23 AM
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5. I don't support this. Can't she use her Senate campaign funds?
I don't see how this relates to honor. Her deficit spending in this campaign needs to be responsibly addressed. It's not the end of the world if she ends up paying from their personal funds, although that won't happen. They can gradually get donations to make up the deficit.

She's liable to continue this deficit spending, hoping for an Obama scandal. Not much honor in that.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:29 AM
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6. Good idea, but why not have her stop now instead? n/t
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:30 AM
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7. She could write a book and pay it off. Write, Hillary. Write.
:shrug:
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:30 AM
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8. bribing her would only enable her future bad behavior.
honorable and Clinton simply do not fit in the same sentence, paragraph or article.

I call bull on this suggestion.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:31 AM
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9. The Clintons have the money to pay the bills, fuck them. What's honorable about sponging from the..
Edited on Wed May-07-08 09:37 AM by JVS
party? Those assholes have cost us enough already.
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:31 AM
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10. Yeah golly, she and Bill only earned 100 million last year. /nt
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TragedyandHope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:36 AM
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11. The Clintons have plenty of resources
Edited on Wed May-07-08 09:38 AM by TragedyandHope
They can do a few speaking engagements, some consulting and dip into the pockets of their fat-cat friends. Average Democratic donors should save their money for the General Election (or use it to pay for their own gas).

Remember the dozen or so millionaire and billionaire donors who wrote that letter to bully the party? Call them to foot the bill.

Clinton big dollar donors threaten Pelosi and the DCCC

Marc Aronchick
Clarence Avant
Susie Tompkins Buell
Sim Farar
Robert L. Johnson
Chris Korge
Marc and Cathy Lasry
Hassan Nemazee
Alan and Susan Patricof
JB Pritzker
Amy Rao
Lynn de Rothschild
Haim Saban
Bernard Schwartz
Stanley S. Shuman
Jay Snyder
Maureen White and Steven Rattner
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:38 AM
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12. Parties don't buy candidates out, that would be the Obama campaigns job
they are the ones to make the offer to pay campaign debt. I'm sure there have been talks.
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mamalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:50 AM
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14. I agree....
as long as they pay off my mortgage too. Oh, and I have a houseful of kids who haven't been able to shop for new clothes in years... maybe I should go to the mall with my credit card and rack up a few thousand in debt and they can pay that off too.

Seriously, Hillary is in this position because of irresponsibility and narcissism on her part. I understand that we may have to pay off her debts in order to get her out of the race, but I don't have to like it ok? It just doesn't seem fair to me.
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 09:54 AM
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15. It's Like We've Heard All Along - The Clintons Never Lose......nt
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