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| WTF?! Clinton claims they’ve been running their campaign “on a shoestring”
Filed at 10:50 pm, Sunday February 17th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Um, what?. Words fail me.
[T]he former president spoke as if he were back in the grass-roots insurgency that he and his wife brought to the presidential campaign trail in 1992. “We’ve gotten plenty of delegates on a shoestring,” he said recently. He didn’t mention that his wife’s campaign has raised and burned through more than $140 million so far. That’s a lot of shoestring, even in Washington.
Bill Clinton’s attempt to transform his wife into an underdog follows an equally bizarre effort a week earlier to brand Barack Obama with a new label: the “establishment” candidate.
That’s just too funny. The Clinton inevitability story is starting to unravel, and watching them try to spin it and make these idiotic arguments just solidifies the reasons why I’m not voting for hillary.
[…] If this is at all possible, Bill Clinton claims they’ve been running their campaign “on a shoestringâ€: The former president spoke as if he were back in the grass-roots insurgency that he and his wife […]