You’re allowed one guess.
OK. It’s Hillary. She’s hedging with an unusual purchase that sends a clear message to Mr. Nice guy, Obama.
The word is out that the Hillary camp purchased a website domain name called HRC2012.com
Sometimes a website name is just a website name.
Maybe the move by a company that’s worked closely with the former first lady is just what it seems: yet another step by Hillary Rodham Clinton to prepare for another run for the Senate from New York in four years. Or another run for the White House. We won’t know, of course, for some time.
But that comes with the news, as reported in The Ticket early the other morning, that Clinton has urgently requested her 2008 general election supporters to approve transfer of their unusable donations for this year’s presidential race over to her 2012 Senate campaign.
(And then, potentially, into a new presidential campaign fund, as she did with $10 million of her surplus 2006 Senate campaign funds).
If this year’s donors don’t approve that transfer soon, Clinton must return the ’08 money by Aug. 28.[.]
The respected blogger Marc Ambinder of TheAtlantic.com is reporting tonight that a company associated with Clinton’s top advance team leaders, the Markham Group, purchased that domain name on June 8.
June 8th? Why does that ring a bell? Why, that’s the very next day after her “I-give-up-and-heartily-support Obama” speech where her family was dressed for a funeral.
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Clinton sources told Ambinder the New York senator was committed to helping elect Obama on Nov. 4, but she wanted to keep her options open for later. Imagine that in a seasoned politician.
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(emphasis added)
HRC and supporters are sending a not so subtle message: Obama will lose this November and should he win, she’ll be challenging in 2012.
Some will say, that’s her right.
But WTF? In the middle of the current campaign with talk of HRC’s supporters endorsing or being courted by McCain! That’s some message to her supporters. Wink, wink, on November 4th please stay home or support McCain.
The Clintons are once again revealing true colors. Deceitful. Divisive. Always calculating.
Forget the talk of “unity.” It’ll be a quarter of a half-hearted effort. Words have meaning. Just recall these words from Hillary –
“Today, as I suspend my campaign,……”
I suspend, not end
Bill Clinton is on record with his views that Obama will lose this November ’08. Never mind Bill’s mouthing he’ll do what he can to help Obama.
Hillary has not given up – as she continues to hold on to the Donkey’s n^^s
Setting up for the next round, transferring donor funds while asking for the help of Obama’s supporters to retire the 2008 campaign’s debt.
What other read is there?
A nightmare that never ends.
Memo to HRC:
Hey believe it. Your Time Chart has expired.
Memo to Obama:
Beware of the Trojan horse. You’ve loaded up on hires from the Clinton camp. One too many, that’s all it takes to sabotage.
Forget any thought of offering the VP slot to the Clintons.
She is a piece of shit. Can we say that on booman??
That means she will undercut Obama at ever turn. Sneaky, low down.
no surprise here…it’s the same ol’ clintons…it’s all about them.
obama better watch his back with the influx of clitonistas into his staff. this from a very interesting and timely article, given his current jaunt to iraq and afghanistan, from the international herald tribune:
very disturbing how heavily Obama has loaded up with the Clintons’ aides.
Others (over at Jack and Jill) are echoing your sense that Obama had better watch his back…they’re likely to take his playbook, his database and give him a shove out the door.
For me, I wanted the Clintons purged. This is just too much.
disturbing, indeed, and frankly, it causes me to question the rationale behind it.
l learned a long time ago, professionally, that you cannot co-opt your enemies. when they’ve been defeated, they’re done…vanquished and banished.
it would appear that obama does not share that opinion.
I’m sure he does share that opinion, it’s just that some have to be put away quietly while others are are executed (metaphorically) publicly. The proof will be when the transition team is named – see how many Clintonites will be included in the team. I would wager a significant amount of money that the count will be 0, not counting Bill Richardson who’s left the Clinton reservation and could even be the VP nominee.
l hope you’re right oscar. but my doubts are not relative to the transition team, they’re more apropos to the potential damage that could be wreaked on his campaign in the interim, and what effect that could have on his chances for ultimate success in november.
color me cynical…l saw this movie before…didn’t like the ending…l don’t trust the clitonistas.
aside: l’ve thought for a long time that richardson as vp would be a very smart move. it’d put a lock on the west, ala the western strategy concept.
we shall see
I’ll have to double-check, but I don’t believe that any of the hirelings from Team Clinton have been put into any positions where they could harm the campaign – they have input and advisory roles, but I don’t think any of them have been given operational responsibilities of any significance. Thus, you can hire lots of Clintonites (“See, we’re uniting the Party!”) without actually having Team Clinton influence the direction of the campaign. Making Patti Solis Doyle the first ex-Clinton aide to be hired told me everything I needed to know about Obama’s perspective on Camp Clinton: F-Bombs away…
Yeah, I’m less trusting.
in some companies, even the office cleaning crew need to pass a security check. They empty the waste baskets, read the files left on desks.
When confronted, Camp Clinton will say that the site is for Hillary’s coming re-election bid for the Senate in 2012. It’s male bovine fecal material, of course, but that’s what they’ll say anyway.
that’s a ploy to muddy the waters – as noted, she sends a message out to her supporters. If she was serious about healing and unity..that domain name wasn’t going any where to anyone else.