Barack Obama courting Hillary Clinton's big dollar fundraisers. What happens here is, I think, the best test of to what extent the Clintons are really behind Obama. When Howard Dean took over from Terry McAuliffe at the DNC, the Clintons seem to have indicated to their donors that there was no need to keep supporting the Committee. Obviously, the Clintons couldn't make anyone donate to the DNC, and they can't force anyone to give Obama money, but what they say behind closed doors will carry a lot of influence here.
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The Fundraisers
12 Jun 2008 09:34 am
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Can somebody with expertise in this matter please answer the following questions for me:
1. What are these supposed comments that Obama made about Hillary's character--- the ones that one of his fundraiser's needs to "address" before he can consider donating?
2. What, exactly, did the Dean and the DNC do wrong, except for honoring the pledges that Hillary herself made prior to the Michigan and Florida primaries? Seriously, is there something Dean could have done better that wouldn't have been totally unfair?
I don't know if I have expertise in the matter but I did sit next to a couple of Hillary supporters while volunteering at my local Democratic headquarters.
From what they said they were pissed that Dean was trying to bring the nominating process to a close before the convention. I think they knew that any solution that took into account the pledged deleagates would give Obama the nomination and in their mind the pledged delagates were not "fair", they seemed to believe that if it went to the convention the super-delegates en mass would go to Hillary and give her the nomination.
Dean by suggesting that the process needed to end after the primaries ruined Hillarys one chance at getting the nomination.
she would have dropped out in march if she didn't have $10M+ of her own money to airdrop in and didn't mind stiffing people for another $10M.
It's hard to let go of the Hillary hate!
Most of the article appears to be the random sniping by the portion of Hillary supporters that are still bitter. That's to be expected.
What really concerns me is the hate towards Dean. Wow.
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Heads in the Sand
Well, it isn't a particular good test because the Clintons can't make them NOT donate either. In that sense, Matt claims "what [the Clintons] say behind closed doors will carry a lot of influence here," but I am not sure that is a well-founded assumption, given that Obama is positioned to become far more powerful than, say, the head of the DNC.
That said, I think the same logic applies to the Clintons--it never made sense to me that they would attempt to distance themselves from Obama once he completed his takeover of the Party. So, I expected them to eventually endorse and sincerely campaign for Obama (and so far it looks promising), and I also expect them to do their best to convince "their" donors to contribute to Obama (indeed, that is the only way to make sure they stay "their" donors at all).
Posted by DTM | June 12, 2008 9:55 AM