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the amount that the two campaigns owed for telephone service at the end of February:

Hillary Clinton:

AT&T: $8,022.65
Camden Co. Dem. Cmte.: $618.53
Cox Communications: $1,960.22
Embarq: $5,328.32
Frontier Commuications: $2.634.95
Qwest: $33,390.98
Soundpath Conferencing: $87,141.07
Verizon: $4,777.27
TOTAL: $143,875.99

Barack Obama:

AT&T: $2,266.10
Embarq: $5,380.21
Frontier Communication: $789.74
Qwest: $2,661.17
TOTAL: $11,097.22

If Hillary becomes President, maybe that 3am phone call is met by a recorded message saying, “The number you are calling has been disconnected.” Is Hillary’s the first campaign in history that will end not in a bang, or a whimper, but a fast busy signal?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/2/83634/73248/403/488768

We all know that political campaigns essentially take most of their donations, countersign the checks, and send them to local network affiliates and cable companies to pay for TV ads. But it’s nice to think that the stuff not feeding mass media monopolies on a bi-annual basis goes to local small businesses.

Hillary isn’t just stiffing her staff and small vendors; she’s stiffing them in order to pay large media corporations for ads. Those corps get paid on time. They’re not stiffable.

(And she’s maxed out lots of her donors, meaning that a fair amount of money banked so far is ring-fenced for the general election campaign.)

(Hang on. Wait a minute. This isn’t the McCain press bus! )

Sorry. As you were.

PS: can there be a “one diary on Hillary, one diary on McCain” rule?

Should you guys really be talking about this? What about the outside chance that she might get the nomination? Wouldn’t you then have been doing the Republicans’ dirty work for them?

Better to have it come out now while there’s still a chance it can be fixed and explained away before the election than to have it come after the nomination.

Ignatius
March 31, 2008 at 4:50 pm

Should you guys really be talking about this? What about the outside chance that she might get the nomination? Wouldn’t you then have been doing the Republicans’ dirty work for them?

LOL .. so you don’t think they would have already figure this out and added to their box-o-crap on HIllary that they’ve been collecting for 16 years?

If so, you don’t really understand how much the Republicans hate Hillary.

Ignatius
March 31, 2008 at 4:50 pm

Should you guys really be talking about this? What about the outside chance that she might get the nomination? Wouldn’t you then have been doing the Republicans’ dirty work for them?

LOL .. so you don’t think they would have already figure this out and added to their box-o-crap on HIllary that they’ve been collecting for 16 years?

If so, you don’t really understand how much the Republicans hate Hillary.

Hillary has a donut’s chance in a police precinct of being the Democratic nominee. The sooner everyone realizes the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, the sooner we can move forward and fight the Republicans.

And even if Hillary were to win, what, do you think we shouldn’t be prepared for this? The more dirty laundry that gets aired now, the less is there for the Republicans to dig up.