After sifting through the absolutely horrifying stories about the Chinese earthquake and the refusal of the Burmese junta to let aid workers aid, it was a relief to get to the domestic politics section of the New York Times this morning.
There, however, I came across an article (buried back on page A18), A Usually Legal Practice That Wears Black Eyes that struck me as a little bit funny, a little bit sad, and as a big reminder about why Obama and his campaign are valuably different.
Basically, it's a story of the Clinton campaign's reliance on "street money" or "walking around money." The humor is that, in a move reminiscent of the plan to pay bloggers for pro-Clinton posts, the Clinton campaign essentially has to buy its support -- and it still lost. (Even if such measures -- and/or Obama's refusal to engage in them -- made the difference in Texas and Pennsylvania.)
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