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Deluding For Dollars

Hillary Clinton is preparing to strut her grassroots appeal by attempting to raise $1 million in one week, strictly in "grassroots donations".  The One Week, One Million campaign may pale in comparative scale to Mitt Romney's one night, $6.5 million fundraising rampage on his first day out of the gate, but one has to suspect it's less about stuffing Clinton's coffers with another measly million and more about feigning credibility among the fringe-dwelling nutroots, who thus far appear to detest the candidate (presumably an unwelcome byproduct of her expediently centerward sashay and her refusal to recant her Iraq War vote without a heaping dose of nuance and blame-shifting).

The defeat-at-any-cost Democrats seem so dead set against Clinton that it's hard to imagine this stunt convincing a meaningful number of them to come into her camp.  I wonder even whether she'll be able to raise the million, unless she decides to take a retroactively expansive view of the term "grassroots" and include all donations made during the week in the tally in order to save face, should she come up short.

No official start-time was given, but an e-mail announcing the grassroots campaign came in at 11:11 am today, so let's check back in around noon on the 28th.

Interestingly, the announcement e-mail came not from the candidate, but from the aspiring First Gentleman, who Team Hillary must see as a better lure for the disillusioned far left.  In his plea, Bill assures us that his teflony ability to survive his spree of scandals is an asset his wife will also enjoy.

During eight years in the White House, Hillary and I faced a constant barrage of attacks from Washington Republicans. No insult was off-limits. No tactic was too low. They threw everything they could at us -- but we beat them time and time again.

The attacks on Hillary haven't stopped, and she hasn't stopped winning. You know how they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger? Well, Hillary is as strong as they come.

What a trooper.  She survived rebuke that you and she brought upon yourselves through your various misdeeds.  Where's my checkbook?

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Deluding For Dollars

Hillary Clinton is preparing to strut her grassroots appeal by attempting to raise $1 million in one week, strictly in "grassroots donations".  The One Week, One Million campaign may pale in comparative scale to Mitt Romney's one night, $6.5 million fundraising rampage on his first day out of the gate, but one has to suspect it's less about stuffing Clinton's coffers with another measly million and more about feigning credibility among the fringe-dwelling nutroots, who thus far appear to detest the candidate (presumably an unwelcome byproduct of her expediently centerward sashay and her refusal to recant her Iraq War vote without a heaping dose of nuance and blame-shifting).

The defeat-at-any-cost Democrats seem so dead set against Clinton that it's hard to imagine this stunt convincing a meaningful number of them to come into her camp.  I wonder even whether she'll be able to raise the million, unless she decides to take a retroactively expansive view of the term "grassroots" and include all donations made during the week in the tally in order to save face, should she come up short.

No official start-time was given, but an e-mail announcing the grassroots campaign came in at 11:11 am today, so let's check back in around noon on the 28th.

Interestingly, the announcement e-mail came not from the candidate, but from the aspiring First Gentleman, who Team Hillary must see as a better lure for the disillusioned far left.  In his plea, Bill assures us that his teflony ability to survive his spree of scandals is an asset his wife will also enjoy.

During eight years in the White House, Hillary and I faced a constant barrage of attacks from Washington Republicans. No insult was off-limits. No tactic was too low. They threw everything they could at us -- but we beat them time and time again.

The attacks on Hillary haven't stopped, and she hasn't stopped winning. You know how they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger? Well, Hillary is as strong as they come.

What a trooper.  She survived rebuke that you and she brought upon yourselves through your various misdeeds.  Where's my checkbook?