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Divernan

(15,480 posts)
16. Quid pro quo & they've already cashed/spent the quid!
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 03:28 PM
Dec 2015
"We have a really good thing going here at the DNC. We wait for a candidate with actual integrity to come along, adopt all of their positions during the primary, and turn our backs on the constituency once elected because, well, we already cashed the checks."


Wonder if vendors learned their lessons from the 2008 campaign & demand payment in advance from the Clinton camp. I mean are there still suckers out there giving her an interest free four year loan of some $25 million?

More than four years after Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic nomination for president, Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign is finally debt-free, new reports filed by the campaign show.

Clinton’s campaign committee paid off about $25 million in debt and now has a surplus of $204,832. The campaign retired its debt just as Clinton is preparing to step down from her job as secretary of state. Clinton supporters are pushing her to run for the presidency again in 2016.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/hillary-clinton-2008-campaign-now-debt-free-086597

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Read it once before. It's that "faster than a Kama Sutra flip chart" that you can't get out of your libdem4life Dec 2015 #1
the DNC and RNC merged olddots Dec 2015 #2
The CFNC Autumn Dec 2015 #7
Ya know.... Plucketeer Dec 2015 #27
They care about us in the same way the Koch brothers care about fundamentalist Christians. Scuba Dec 2015 #3
Bingo! daleanime Dec 2015 #19
PerZactly! nt Plucketeer Dec 2015 #26
Looking forward to voting for Bernie. djean111 Dec 2015 #4
How strange is that? I know two democrats who support her and I know a lot of people, Autumn Dec 2015 #6
The media just may have a stake in the outcome? eom Duval Dec 2015 #15
Sad thing is,THEY wendylaroux Dec 2015 #5
They didn't fall out of the tent so much as leapt out of it and kept on running... hedda_foil Dec 2015 #23
Padded with power, here they come Maedhros Dec 2015 #8
Haunting, especially the "kill the best and buy the rest" part. Autumn Dec 2015 #9
Open for business like a cheap bordello....[n/t] Maedhros Dec 2015 #10
There is a reason why 3rd way Democrtic leaders don't complain about fasttense Dec 2015 #11
Because they can be re-used in the primaries? eom Betty Karlson Dec 2015 #13
too funny. blackspade Dec 2015 #12
Yowsers!!! Bubzer Dec 2015 #14
Quid pro quo & they've already cashed/spent the quid! Divernan Dec 2015 #16
Saw that! Thanks for posting, Autumn! Duval Dec 2015 #17
Freaking spot on! K&R!!! Phlem Dec 2015 #18
Reminded me of The Rude Pundit nxylas Dec 2015 #20
I was also wondering about OPOL. Jim Lane Dec 2015 #22
"We own this shit. " Jack Rabbit Dec 2015 #21
love it! ibegurpard Dec 2015 #24
Perfect !!! WillyT Dec 2015 #25
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