Sen. Hillary Clinton is telling supporters this morning she intends to fight for every vote in New Hampshire and beyond.
Here's an e-mail she sent out with the subject line "Last night," in which she asks for donations three times.
Dear Friend,
"We've got more work to do." That was my first reaction as I saw last night's election results come in. And today in New Hampshire, I'm pounding the pavement, looking for every last vote in next Tuesday's primary.
With your help, we can make it clear that the Democratic Party needs a nominee who can go the distance in a long, challenging campaign to win the White House, and that the American people need a president who can be an effective champion for them on day one.
Iowa sounded the opening bell of this campaign. New Hampshire is only four days away -- and the pace only quickens from there.
The stakes couldn't be any higher. Events couldn't be moving any faster. With everything on the line, let's show them what we're made of.
Please contribute now.
You and I know just what to do at times like this. Work harder than everyone else and rely on each other every step of the way. If we do that, I know we'll win.
You've already done so much. But today, I'm turning to you to help fund crucial activities in New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina and beyond.
Make a contribution today to help me win.
We're not just working to prevail over other candidates in a hard-fought contest for the Democratic nomination. This is about more than that. It's about our unyielding determination to reclaim our country from an administration that has failed us, betrayed our trust, and undermined our values.
That's why these next few days matter so much. I'm doing everything I can to drive our campaign to victory and I know you will do the same.
With your help, we can win. Make a contribution now.
Let's keep working to change America.
All the best,
Hillary
-- Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (12)
Hillary,
If you want to save AMERICA, then get out of this race and learn to bake some cookies. You are a phony. Everything you do and say is calculated to get you where you want to go. In my openion, you are not to be trusted.
You and your husband "Bubba" should ride off into the sunset and use up the loot you have taken from AMERICA and its people and leave us alone.
You are not what you portray yourself to be.
Posted by Gene C. Bedsole | January 4, 2008 12:21 PM
Hillary:
You DON'T HAVE the character, experience, skills, judgment, charisma and many other attributes to be president of the United States.
Save us your pointless banter and go away. Your presence in this campaign is an embarrassment to the country.
Posted by l. Janks | January 4, 2008 1:15 PM
Spending more money to hear the same rhetoric over and over again is not the answer. Change is requires a deviation from the status quo, not a rehash of the past and a blame agenda. That is why experience is not an advantage unless it is backed with success (this goes for Obama too). The Arkansas school and previous healthcare initiatives were experience, but she didn't learn from them because she has no record of success. The experience in the White House means nothing because there was no accountability. Those that support her should consider their donations sunk cost and move on.
Posted by Larry Stone | January 4, 2008 1:40 PM
Bottom line on Hillary is no amount of money is going to get her elected or change a single mind. The majority of Americans detest her and would never vote for her. I'll bet anyone that Hillary would have gotten the 29% in Iowa if she had never set foot there. Her numbers are baked in.
Posted by jim | January 4, 2008 2:32 PM
As a college English instructor, I tell my students to pay attention to voice. In this document, purported to be from Clinton herself, the use of "I" and "we" is interesting. The "I" in terms of working hard seems reasonable, but the emphasis is to help "me" win in "my" campaign to elect "me." After the request for "you" to contribute, it shifts to "we" for a moment, but the "me" slips back in again before reverting back to "we" and "our." I guess "we" can recognize whose campaign this really is.
Posted by Walter Lowe | January 4, 2008 3:28 PM
For you, Hillary, the writing is on the wall.
Since your first job stint as a pettifogger for
the American Communist Party right out of the
stalls at Wellesley, you and your disgraceful husband have taken enough from the American people. Please disappear into the sunset and
leave all of us alone to our own miseries.
Posted by the Terminator | January 4, 2008 3:43 PM
Hey Hillary, here's a quarter. Call someone who cares.
Posted by John Patrick | January 4, 2008 4:14 PM
This is thinly veiled desperation. They must have overspent in Iowa, thinking it was in the bag, and now they're in trouble for New Hampshire.
She doesn't ask for money three times. She TELLS people to contribute three times, and only says please once.
Desperate.
Posted by BlueState | January 4, 2008 4:55 PM
I couldn't agree more with the comments made by I. Janks and Gene Bedsole any more. Hillery and Bill Clinton along with and the "Gang" they bought to Washington in 1992 have truly hurt our country. The sooner the better that she loses and also retires from NY Senate TOO!
Posted by Mark | January 4, 2008 5:48 PM
HMMMM. There has been either a Bush (VP or President) or Clinton in the White House since 1981 okay? That is nearly 3 decades. I do not understand how putting another Clinton in there means change. The scariest part for me was last night on T.V. when she gave her last speech in Iowa flanked by Madeline Albright, her husband, and daughter. The subliminal message there was...vote for me so that I can maintain the status quo. Hillary Clinton's message of how she will fight with the opposition to get her way scares me. It has not worked for the Democrats in the last seven years, and it not going to suddenly work for her somehow. Face facts, Hillary is just a manager-type politician. Obama is a entrepreneur-type politician and will be an actual leader as president, not somebody who dashes to the front of a moving crowd and declares themself to be leading it.
Posted by B. Hendrickson | January 4, 2008 8:34 PM
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. i care only about defeating her thighness, hillary. once she is gone, if i should be so blessed, i will start looking at the Republicans. until then it's go, Obama, go.
Posted by bill whitacre | January 4, 2008 9:09 PM
Hillary and the Democrats' new slogan should be: Better red than dead
Posted by texas | January 5, 2008 12:38 AM