Hillary's Top Fundraising Official: There's "Risk" Of Obama Loss If She Isn't Invited To Be Veep

This sounds so threatening to me, and I'm sure that's done intentionally.


Hillary's Top Fundraising Official Says There's "Risk" Of Obama Loss If She Isn't Invited To Be Veep
By Greg Sargent - May 23, 2008, 11:17AM


In a move that could foreshadow a public push from the Hillary forces to get Barack Obama to invite her on the ticket, Hillary's top campaign fundraising official said in an interview that there's a "risk" that Hillary's political and financial supporters won't get behind Obama in time for him to win in November if she's passed over for the veep slot.

The fundraiser, businessman Hassan Nemazee, is Hillary's leading finance chair and one of the most influential money men in the party. He's the first prominent Hillary campaign official to raise the possiblity of an Obama loss should she not be invited on the ticket, and his comments suggests that this argument could emerge as central to any Clinton camp push to make her veep.

"There's a desire on the part of the party to come together under any circumstances, and Hillary and her supporters will do everything in their power to help Obama win, should he become the nominee, whether or not she's on the ticket," Nemazee said to me this morning.

"But there's a risk that if she isn't invited on the ticket, Hillary's political and financial supporters may not feel compelled to be as integrated and involved in the Obama campaign in order to provide the maximum support that he'll need to prevail in November."

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http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/hillarys_top_fundraiser_says_t.php

this was said and is being said is sort of disturbing. Probably normal, but I'm just getting tired of this freak show.

...and he's threatening Obama's fundraising ability?

It's the irony.

Blackmail now to get her on the ticket.

Or at least one that doesn't use blackmail to get what she wants.

Hillary's top fundraising official needs to shut the.. hell up.

If Obama caves and gives her the VP spot, he will have doomed himself and be forever tied to the Clintons and the past. No thanks.

so much weaseling, so little time....

and the other AIPAC tools.

Clinton, on the other hand, has not been served well by them otherwise she would not be deeply in DEBT. Usually when one threatens, one has something to threaten with, not in this case it seems.

$24 million to Democratic candidates and committees over the last 10 years.

Maybe they need to stop making threats linked to Obama's fundraising and concentrate on paying off her $19 million in vendor debt and her $11 million personal loan.

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And now you know where she gets her stance on Iran.

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/adviser-to-clinton-meets-with-president-of-syria/71359/

"If you don't do as I say, we'll make the democratic party lose"

GOOD GRIEF - they're behaving like the mob.

I can't imagine why Hillary would want to be VP in the first place (she could become the "lion of the Senate" to replace Kennedy), or why these rumors are being bandied about right now anyway--except for one reason: to make Obama look bad if he doesn't ask her and start an intra-party fight that would ruin election chances in the fall.

Bullying Obama about the VP spot--publicly--seems intended to make him look either (a) weak if he asks her or (b) mean and egotistical if he doesn't.

I call the bluff on this one. But it puts him in a no-win position. Unless, of course, he can bully her into saying publicly she does not want or will not accept the position.

No.

I officially don't trust Hillary--she'd be trying to undermine Obama for a shot at 2012 out of the gate.

And we would just be giving the Republicans TWO people to attack instead of one.

The VP slot should be reserved for a safe calming choice with National Security or military experience.

It's almost like they keep telling their supporters not to give financially or support Senator Obama unless certain conditions are met. I have come to expect statements like this from supporters of each candidate but from high level backers and campaign workers, it is nothing but divisive. Emotions are raw and the anger you see and hear is extreme. It's why I want the primary season to end sooner than later.

It's May and the general is in November. Nemazee may think he is warning but it reads more like blackmail or a threat. If the goal is to get as many democrats elected as possible and to have a democratic president talk should be of unity behind the nominee and not this bs. None of the people making statements like this should be surprised when people accuse Clinton of trying to divide the party.

in a letter to cut off dontations to the DCCC in which Nancy eventually replied ..... "Don't ever threaten me again"

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/in_letter_a_dozen_top_clinton.php

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/08/weinstein.pelosi/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

Better for her to watch BO lose in November and run again in 2012. Taking the VP spot would taint her in 2012.

She needs to go far away. Now.

Cordially.

A man of obvious brilliance and competence :rofl:

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E F Hutton he is not...


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You nailed it JVS!



Laura

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for your own sinking ship before you start making threats about the winning campaign...

Demanding, but you can bet she's been promising "tepid" support for Obama in the GE if she doesn't get something. That's how she and bill operate.

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It's like she forgot something in the White House and desperately needs to get back in there to find it.