CINCINNATI — This image from Sen. Hillary Clinton's Web site says she's "closed the gap" with Sen. Barack Obama, but Team Clinton is already out with a new fundraising push.
You are doing an amazing job for Hillary — stepping up when she needs you the most. You surpassed the $1.3 million goal President Clinton set, and our "Moment" ad is running in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Now we need your help to expand our buy.
We still face a spending gap on the air with our opponent. Senator Obama is putting everything on the line to win on March 4, and he has virtually unlimited funds. We cannot let his massive war chest be the deciding factor in this race.
Every dollar you give today will make a difference to help Hillary win. Everything that comes in is going right back out to fund critical efforts to get out the vote and put ads like "Moment" on the air.
Click here to watch the ad and make a contribution.
Thank you for your incredible support.
Sincerely,
Terry McAuliffe
Chairman, Hillary Clinton for President
Embedded in the e-mail pitch from McAuliffe is the re-edited "Moment" video below.
A few minutes earlier, this text message chimed on the Berry:
We need to match our opponent's ad buys in OH and TX. You can help close the gap. Make a contribution at HillaryClinton.com. Thank you for your support.
The last text I got from Team Clinton came Feb. 12, a reminder to vote in the Potomac primaries.
— Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (23)
After your most recent behavior you will never get a dime from me . In fact I think I will make my first donation to the Obama campaign !
Thank You Hill for pointing out eaxctly who I should be voting for ...Sen Obama !
Posted by soflindie | February 25, 2008 1:53 PM
Out of dough Hillary O? Another reason not to support your mismanaged campaign. Go buy some doughnuts with the funds Bill get from overseas from peddling influence. guess if you don't get the job his influence wains as well.
Todays 15th recreation "negative Hilary" is just a joke round these parts in Houston. You aint even got a hat to say nothing of cattle.
Time for an exit stage left from you.
ABH= anybody but Hillary
Posted by Juanita Cruz Houston Texas | February 25, 2008 1:57 PM
This is actually quite cheesy. Her words are eloquent enough and yet her facial expression did not correspond the words she was uttering. She looked like an ice queen talking of something 'hot'. Just didn't fit together.
Posted by BB | February 25, 2008 2:02 PM
I find her endearing moment regarding her visit to a VA hospital quite amusing. I'm an Air Force retiree who served 22 years, including 3 tours in Vietnam. During the Clinton administration the President initiated rules which "means-tested" VA health care. As a result it has become a welfare program and leaves millions of veterans out of VA care. I make $24k per year in pension which is my only income. After Clinton's change I cannot use VA because the limit on income is $20k per year. Nuff said about this sympathy of the troops [stuff].
Posted by Dearel Friend | February 25, 2008 2:03 PM
How desperate is hilary to select a video clip from cnn and put it as an AD. Some one should let this lady know this fight is over. No matter what she said about Obama, simply people are not buying it. This campain was never about America, it was personally about the Clinton's angenda to get back to the white house.
Posted by Samuel | February 25, 2008 2:08 PM
My contribution: GET OUT NOW! The simple reason that Obama's "war chest" is unlimited is he is the people's choice.
Posted by The Joker | February 25, 2008 2:12 PM
Hillary is desperate and disgraceful. She should be ashamed of herself. She could be out stomping about her positive policies, demonstrating by example how to be a leader that embraces cultural differences. She herself has been photographed in cultural dress of other countries. She brings up feelings of negativity rather than hope. Who would want to follow her into an inferno without an exit. How can she be so gentile one minute and point such a heinous finger the next? This has nothing to do with gender as some have suggested, it has everything to do with internal integrity.
Posted by new yorker switiching to Obama camp | February 25, 2008 2:17 PM
Hillary is desperate and disgraceful. She should be ashamed of herself.She could be out stomping about her positive policies, demonstrating by example how to be a leader that embraces cultural differences. She herself has been photographed in cultural dress of other countries. She brings up feelings of negativity rather than hope. Who would want to follow her into an inferno without an exit. How can she be so gentile one minute and point such a heinous finger the next? This has nothing to do with gender as some have suggested, it has everything to do with internal integrity.
Posted by new yorker switiching to Obama camp | February 25, 2008 2:19 PM
WAR CHEST!!!???? COME ON HILLARY. THE REASON OBAMA HAS MORE MONEY IS BECAUSE HE HAS MORE DONATORS. HE IS GOING TO SURPASS 1 MILLION CONTRIBUTORS THIS WEEK. I USED TO REALLY RESPECT HILLARY, BUT AFTER THIS PAST MONTH SHE HAS SHOWN THAT SHE IS JUST POWER HUNGRY.
Posted by DAN | February 25, 2008 2:23 PM
Hillary's rhetoric is ridiculous.
Hillary would have us believe that Barack Obama's 1 million small private donations is a "war chest."
Meanwhile, she has "loaned" her campaign 5 million of Bill's hard "earned" money when her campaign lost momentum because all her wealthy donors had maxed out their contribution limits. In contrast to Obama, she has far fewer contributors, each contributing far more money. Additionally, she's been saving for this campaign since 2002.
She's raised the issue, and I hope she'll embrace the comparison. What rational person would believe her rhetoric suggesting that she's trying to catch up with Obama's "War chest."
The increasingly obvious fact is that she's been surpassed by a candidate with greater charisma, broader support, truer vision, and a genuine desire to serve the American people. She may have appealed to the voters in the absence of true leadership, but a leader has emerged - and it's not her.
Furthermore, how can claim to represent and relate to the American people if she's the only one who doesn't seem to understand that the writing is on the wall?
08AMA
Posted by Matt | February 25, 2008 2:27 PM
Hillary's behaviour is irritating to every one of us !! She do not seem to understand that everything is fair in war,love and this type of election. She is a crying baby to me !!!
Posted by Roger Laconti | February 25, 2008 2:41 PM
I remember the millions of people that gave money to Bush. So all Obama supporters shouldnt be getting all excited about him beating her at fund-raising. All your hatred towards the clinton camp will turn us agaisnt you in november. So i think at this point in time you should be praying for Obama to lose. At least that way he gets the VP. If he wins, we will all vote for McCain (Hillary wont take the VP...so stop dreaming). Why? because we are sick of your BS. McCain with a democratic senate is a pretty harmless thought for all of us. At least we wont have tea and cookies with Fidel castro while your guy does white lines
Posted by Francis Martin | February 25, 2008 2:42 PM
Andrea Mitchell appeared on Morning Joe (MSNBC) this moring reporting that the situation inside the Clinton campaign as "a mess," with people "openly at war with each other." She added that there have been charges of "campaign malfeasance."
Posted by Todd Smyth | February 25, 2008 2:48 PM
By far, the single most disgusting ad she's plugged throughout the duration of her campaign. It reeks of the stench common to a phone recording on a customer service line that responds with an extravagant and out-of-place thanks just before cutting off when calls are coming in only to file complaints.
Posted by Anonymous | February 25, 2008 2:50 PM
What else is Obama hiding? Farrahkan, Oprah and Obama.
OBAMA; Please explain the fine line you have made between NFTA and Free Trade, or again, dont you know what your talking about.?
Posted by lynn parker | February 25, 2008 2:51 PM
This is an Ad? It views as a clip off You Tube. Is this the genius mind Bill has spoke of? People, we are in trouble if this is the best she can come up with. There is no creativity at all in this Ad, simply repitition of a closing statement in her last debate, an F for originality, worse that High School Advertising class. Her Campaign is going to pay money to have this run? Small wonder she is losing.
Posted by Robert | February 25, 2008 2:58 PM
I'm not sure which candidate the Washington Times is supporting, but this article is not news. It is basically a Clinton campaign contribution ad and even contains a live link for contributions. Please stick to the news!
Posted by Beck | February 25, 2008 2:59 PM
To all you Hillary bashers, you seem to be forgetting that in Nov it will take Hillary supporters to get your candidate elected, do you think that we are just automatically going to vote for Obama. I'm a lifelong Democrat but am now seriously considering changing my voter registration to independent. If enough of us older Dems vote for Nader even John McCain will be a shoe-in.!
Posted by myrna | February 25, 2008 3:17 PM
The Clinton Campaign is a Sleaze Factory.
Posted by PulSamsara | February 25, 2008 3:19 PM
I suport Hillary god bless you and god bless America
Posted by sims | February 25, 2008 3:55 PM
The Clinton campaign burned through more than one hundred million dollars. They spent $95,000 (that's right, ninety five THOUSAND dollars) for SANDWICH PLATES (!) to celebrate her Iowa victory (...it turned out that she lost).
...so, yeah, If you back this "more of the same" candidate, send Hillary your money, and know that it will be spent (probably to pay back her 5 million loan).
Posted by kevin | February 25, 2008 5:10 PM
Hilary is a hate-monger. The Clintons agenda for slush-n-burn to grab power and triangulation policy is the worst history. Clintons are nasty juggernut. They can do anything for the greed of power.
She can cry like tortoise, she can change color like a chamelion, she can let Bill continue his infidility.
There is no good I see in Hilary!
So much of her 'inevitability'.
Loosing, Hilary style!
Her campaign will be in the history book after spending 130 million dollars. She can't even manager her campaign, how can she manage a war-torn country?
Give me a break!
Posted by roger | February 25, 2008 7:05 PM
Why would anyone give money to a HRC at this point? First off it is a horrible investment. Her campaign is imploding. Second HRC "loans" money to her campaign with "interest". Let Hillary & Bill put more of their own money at risk at this juncture as a sign of good faith. If she will not put any of her own money at risk why should Americans? Hillary & Bill through influence peddling under the umbrella of their Philanthropic Fundraising Vehicle, The Clinton Global Initiative, have amassed a small fortune. The Clintons family business: politics has made them worth upwards of $50-150 Million Dollars. They have collected $$ from the richest globalists, selling the Whitehouse Pardons on the way out of the last Clinton Administration and "Pre-Selling" the next Clinton Whitehouse. This is wy the Clintons do not want to show America their Income Tax Returns.
Posted by Christopher London | February 25, 2008 7:13 PM