Video: Defender of the common man returns, asks for money
posted at 7:20 pm on June 23, 2008 by Allahpundit
They spared her the indignity of a direct appeal, thank god, although the sidebar text makes plain what sort of “help” she’s requesting. Moneybags is going to get his donors to lend a hand so at least part of that $22.5 mil will be paid down. But what if they only cover, say, half and there’s still $12 million outstanding? That means almost one extra speech a week for Billy Jeff next year!
Ah, I’m just bitter. I’m not going to sugarcoat it: I miss her. The prospect of four more dreary months of Hopenchange vs. Straight Talk, with no Clintonian psychodrama to liven things up, is simply intolerable. As one lefty friend said to me yesterday, “Life is so freaking boring without her.” Exit question: What’s a pundit to do to get his Hillary fix? Click the image to watch.
Update: Actually, here’s a better exit question. Do I dare … throw her a few bucks? Sympathy money!
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Doesn’t that mean some coinage from Moneybag’s bottom line? People can only afford so much.
amerpundit on June 23, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Why do I hear the little girl on Poltergist saying:
“Sheeee’ssss Baaaaacckkk!”
upinak on June 23, 2008 at 7:27 PM
Either the photo copy is dirty or her moustache is showing.
I didn’t support her when she was co-President so why should I waste my hard earned money on her now?
SeniorD on June 23, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Who did the makeup job? She looks like she been burnt by a heat lamp! Nice bright red lipstick too….
TheBigOldDog on June 23, 2008 at 7:31 PM
“Either the photo copy is dirty or her moustache is showing.”
It’s Carpet fiber.
marklmail on June 23, 2008 at 7:32 PM
I miss her too. She’s interesting compared to Mr. Hopeandstuff.
Anna on June 23, 2008 at 7:33 PM
She’s just been vewwy vewwy quiet. They ah hunting obamahs………
Denver ain’t over till it’s over. A wounded Clintoon is a viscious animal.
bbz123 on June 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM
She looks so grandmotherly here. Why?
lorien1973 on June 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM
I’m tellin ya’s…. don’t turn your back.
Let’s hope she’s not stiking a VP deal…for Obamas sake.
johnnyU on June 23, 2008 at 7:35 PM
She looks like one of the characters in the bar scenes from Star Wars. Good god that woman is ugly AND disingenuous.
winemkr on June 23, 2008 at 7:39 PM
Ahem, does anybody here remember her income taxes she reported? What was it about 12 million dollars in INCOME?!?!?! WTF!?!?!?! She a freakin’ millionaire 10 times over and she’s got the umitigated gall to ask the middle-class for money. Ask Marc Rich to bail you out honey, otherwise drop dead.
Andy in Agoura Hills on June 23, 2008 at 7:39 PM
I can’t afford a tank of gas…and she used 12 million of her own money, and now wants me to help her out. Maybe she should have dropped out sooner. She can kiss my A$$…
twiggman on June 23, 2008 at 7:39 PM
Sexist!!!!! You would never say such a thing about Barney Frank!!!
Zetterson on June 23, 2008 at 7:43 PM
Did you throw her a few bucks, AP?
DaveS on June 23, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Ahhh……you forget. SHE will spend YOUR money better than you ever could.
/s
Talon on June 23, 2008 at 7:45 PM
If HRC really wants to retire her debt, she should work to block the FISA bill in the Senate. It would get the Netroots all worked up and might even make them second guess themselves, before concluding that to do so would be racist.
My advice to HRC – FIGHT the FISA, for fun and profit…
rw on June 23, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Oh, you mean the huge, red DONATE $$
Hard to miss that…
I still think she’s not out of it..gonna let StraightTalk and CompleteBlitheringIdiotLibTardRaceBaitingLiar duke it out for awhile…just you wait and see…
How does she control the rage….I’m betting on strong drink…
BigWyo on June 23, 2008 at 7:46 PM
Poor, poor Hillary.
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 7:47 PM
I loved how when she said :
Our democratic nominee barack obama shares our goals.
You could almost see the cartoon balloon above her head showing a huge eye roll lol
ArmyAunt on June 23, 2008 at 7:48 PM
No argument from me………
Seven Percent Solution on June 23, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Sure. I believe you :)
terryannonline on June 23, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Why would people continue to donate so that she can take care of her debt? If it proves anything it is that she couldn’t run her campaign in the black and certainly doesn’t belong in the White House! Yet they are all hollering about 2012! Wouldn’t you assume his majesty would serve two terms? Unless they know something we don’t know – Hilary supporters really are not that bright.
Doesn’t she have a day job to get back to? Work for that Senator’s salary for a change?
ctmom on June 23, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Barney’s makeup artist – and they are artists – would never let him out the house looking like that. Barney only uses trained professionals from the Barbason School of Beauty! The man had standards!
TheBigOldDog on June 23, 2008 at 7:52 PM
She is such a sexist!
With her “couldn’t shatter that glass ceiling” crack.
I guess the “good ol’ boys” just held her back.
Those bastards!
Have Billy boy pay her back, he could make his rounds in Hollyweird.
What nerve.
Was she starting to cry towards the end there?
1GooDDaDDy on June 23, 2008 at 7:53 PM
She should be embarrassed begging for money like this!
Can someone give her a tin cup and a dancing monkey and place her in Times Square??
becki51758 on June 23, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Better yours than mine…
innominatus on June 23, 2008 at 7:55 PM
I would love to have the most recent donors email addresses, they must be the ones that keep buying from spammers. That list has to be worth a fortune to direct marketers.
javamartini on June 23, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Is hers the only campaign that went into debt?
terryannonline on June 23, 2008 at 7:58 PM
If she puts on the yellow pantsuit and does a shot of Old Crow Ill send her a ten.
Chuck Schick on June 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM
You actually listened to her of your own free will? You are a brave soul! I salute you.
TheBigOldDog on June 23, 2008 at 8:04 PM
She looks really strange. As if she has been made up by a funeral director. Nothing against funeral directors.
Is the money she is begging for just to reimburse her and Billy Blythe III or are there a lot of unpaid suppliers still waiting for their money?
JonRoss on June 23, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Look at it this way Allahpundit
If she were President, she wouldn’t have to make an undignified internet appeal because of her financial mismanagement; she would just raise your taxes for the good of the common man.
BDU-33 on June 23, 2008 at 8:05 PM
I know…I knoww…I…I…was compelled kinda…I needed my fix! My Hillary fix.
I’m sorry…sorrryyy I tell you!
I feel much better now. Sniff
1GooDDaDDy on June 23, 2008 at 8:11 PM
Beto Ochoa on June 23, 2008 at 8:11 PM
In there somewhere did she say “next time”? 2012 oughtta be a hoot.
FishFearMe on June 23, 2008 at 8:13 PM
You’re assuming a lot.
When he was raking in all that dough, he was the future First Laddie. Not that he will, but if Barry wins, ol’ Bill’s just an aging Lothario well past his usefulness, let alone his prime.
No need to lavish any–wink, wink–speaking fees on a has been with no prospects of ever being again.
Typhoon on June 23, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Yep. She started by saying “As we being the next chapter…”
Then later on she said, “next time.”
terryannonline on June 23, 2008 at 8:18 PM
There were six Rockys so, counting the wins and losses, that puts her running for and holding the presidency five terms spanning three decades and retiring at the ripe old age of 103. It’s possible!
Beto Ochoa on June 23, 2008 at 8:24 PM
She’s not on her game at all. That was really weak. Her phrasing didn’t even sound like she knew what she was saying. Like it was a 1st read-through.
nottakingsides on June 23, 2008 at 8:35 PM
The Schadenfreude is just too sweet to think about the impending Obama bomb.
Sgt. Hartman on June 23, 2008 at 8:36 PM
HA HA HA! Good one!
I would guess Flying Carpet.
BL@KBIRD on June 23, 2008 at 8:47 PM
“Have some hot chocolate and turkish delight, and next time, be sure to bring your brothers and sisters to
my castle between the two hillsHillaryClinton.com. Remember, don’t forget to bring your brothers and sisters. I shan’t be pleased if you forget.”–
The White WitchHillarysilverfox on June 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Here we have the puported candidate herself, speaking (reading, whatever) at great length about her own campaign. And she still had to run the blurb at the end that she approves this message. Good grief, she GAVE the message!!
That alone shows how asinine our election laws are.
ss396 on June 23, 2008 at 9:12 PM
I keep tellin’ ya, folks…don’t get all teary-eyed about her fading from the scene – Bubba either. She’s a limelight-dependent narcissist, obsessed with a goal. She ain’t goin’ nowhere.
whitetop on June 23, 2008 at 9:23 PM
You want sympathy? Look it up in the dictionary between sniffles and syphillis…
Hog Wild on June 23, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Your talking about the CLINTONS and MONEY.
“But what if they only cover, say, half and there’s still $12 million outstanding?”
Hillary!’s continuted endorsement is not going to come cheap. What she can’t dredge up, Barry O is going to get stuck for.
GarandFan on June 23, 2008 at 9:56 PM
AAAH!
Get thee behind me!
rihar on June 23, 2008 at 10:03 PM
GAK!!!!
Glynn on June 23, 2008 at 10:12 PM
“18 million cracks” — yeesh, I don’t like the sound of that!
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on June 23, 2008 at 10:20 PM
She needs to go back into Cattle Futures.. a year or so in that I’m sure she could clean up and pay off what she owes and then some..
DaveC on June 23, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Damn Hillary, you gotta be sh**ting us…Just go to your offshore accounts, and get the money that’s squirreled away.
byteshredder on June 23, 2008 at 10:28 PM
You don’t understand.. that’s her money.. not campaign debt..
in her mind, there is a difference..
DaveC on June 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM
damn, you guys are so mean to her. i just donated some cash.
jtorres138 on June 23, 2008 at 11:03 PM
I like the way they tried to hide the bags under her eyes! Yep, that’s enough to get me to write her a check! For one cent!
Vntnrse on June 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM
OHferheavenssake. Some person* just told my my country has 18 million cracks in it.
*no mayo smeared on the lens. Just a person, not a commercial, after all. Huh.
RushBaby on June 24, 2008 at 12:07 AM
You guys seem to forget.
She did not “concede”, or “end” her campaign.
She merely “suspended it”.
All the more reason to continue wh0ring for money, so that if lil’ Barry trips up on some gaffe that the press and women won’t forgive**, our political Terminator Babe is there waiting to sh*t all over his carcass.
You watch.
It will happen.
**The “get over it” comment came pretty damned close to sending the PUMAs into a frenzy. All Barry needs to do is figure out a way to p*ss off both the PUMAs, CODEPINK, and KOSsaks at the same time.
Result? The Perfect Storm…
Bring.It.On.
Wanderlust on June 24, 2008 at 12:25 AM
Do you really feel sympathy for Hillary Clinton?? wow!! I think Hillary got what she deserved. It is arguable that she is the most corrupt politician in the last 15 years. All of my sympathy bucks are for dying children and brave soldiers.
Dollayo on June 24, 2008 at 1:40 AM
It really seems like we are talking, chatting… you know, opening a dialouge. And I’m getting a vibe to save my money for “From the Frontlines” on June 26, from 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific to 12midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific, a livestreamed, 8-hour fund-raising “web-a-thon” to send the largest number of care packages to our troops overseas in U.S. history.
christophercube on June 24, 2008 at 9:59 AM
it appears that the professional hair and make up people have been laid off – as well as the speech writers! (Is that sexist?)
Ann on June 24, 2008 at 10:39 AM
No doubt. Has she aged that much in a few weeks?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM