Close on the heels of the news that Barack Obama raised some $32 million in January comes news that Hillary Clinton was forced to loan her campaign $5 million out of her own pocket to try to keep up with Obama. This is not the indication of a healthy campaign at this late date. Even worse, she's considering another loan.
And in a quick update, her campaign has just confirmed that she’d already lent her coffers $5 million of her own money in late January. A just-issued statement from her camp:
The loan illustrates Senator Clinton’s commitment to this effort and to ensuring that our campaign has the resources it needs to compete and win across this nation. We have had one of our best fundraising efforts ever on the Web today and our Super Tuesday victories will only help in bringing more support for her candidacy.
More Updates: At her news conference this afternoon, Senator Clinton acknowledged the loan, saying: “I loaned the campaign $5 million from my money. That’s where I got the money. I did it because I believe very strongly in this campaign, and we had a great month fund-raising in January, broke all our records, but my opponent was able to raise more money and we intended to be competitive – and we were – and I think the results last night proved the wisdom of my investment.”
The Caucus notes that they can see appeals from Bubba and Chelsea Clinton in the near future. "Please help my wife/mom." Yeah, you can pretty well bet that's coming, along with another water main break from the candidate herself begging for money so she can – sniff – finish the job. Because all of this is so hard.
Bonus question: How many of the people she purports to champion have the odd $10 million or so sitting around gathering dust?
Answer: None.
Powerball question: How many of the people that she actually champions do?
Time to call upon Johnny Hsu and shake down those Buddhist nuns again for more donations.
It looks like Soros has abandoned her along with all the other celebrities. Now the commoners need to pick up the slack, not!