3/1
3 to 1
By a margin of THREE TO ONE.
Yup. It'll be burned into your brain by the end of the day if it isn't by now. It's the new HRC mantra.
And like some guy named Kos said here, "But that's not a bad thing."
Because you know folks? He outspent her because he OUTRAISED her. And that money came from you.
To the jump!
When attacked for taking lobbyist money, HRC is fond of saying that those lobbyists represent "real Americans."
Then of course she turns around and says that we'd be foolish to think that that money would influence her.
Um, yeah. Lobbyists are that stupid. It's like advertising. If advertising didn't work, companies wouldn't spend their money on it. Lobbyists are businessmen/women. They spend money to make money.
But ANYWAY.
We've all heard how the majority of Obama supporters have only just begun to open their wallets.
I was an Edwards supporter and donor and said at one point that I would vote for any of the other candidates in the GE but would NEVER give them any money.
HRC = DLC in my book and that is a deal-breaker.
Obama? That whole Donnie McClurkin burned me up big time and at the time I didn't think I would forgive him.
But time calmed me down and then the whole Rev. Wright thing hit.
And then The Speech. And everything changed. I got it. I heard what he was saying. And most importantly, I heard him speaking to me in a way that I had never heard from any politician, ever. He was the adult in the room. And I could see a nation in which we had a President who could talk to the country, and the world, about difficult subjects. And instead of dumbing down the issue, he would smarten us up. He would open our minds.
And my wallet got warm . . . but it did not open, not yet. (Yesterday I made my first, and for sure not my last, donation to the Barack Obama campaign.)
But many of you beat me to it, and really, this diary is about you. It's a thank you to you.
Barack Obama was able to spend more money because YOU gave him more money. Do you honestly think HRC would have been outspent if she had HAD the money?
She didn't have it. She's broke. Yeah, yeah she raised some money after she stood hat-in-hand at the podium last night. But do you think that's going to last?? I don't think so.
Nope.
We are the well that has only begun to gush. Most of our donations are from small donors, which means of course that we are free to give and give again, and again.
Yup, Barack outspent Hillary in Pennsylvania. And he'll do it again. And again. Because there are "real Americans" who are sending him that money.
Spend that money Barack. We'll make more.