I've just contributed again @ HillaryClinton.com. Let me explain why

[Fredda Weinberg]

I'm invisible today ... my software speaks for itself. But few have this modern protection from pervasive discrimination.

When I was 15, I turned down my Democratic Party precinct captain's offer to be my "sugar daddy" - today I'm CTO of a social network for activists.

Soon after I married, we toured out local clubs ... sounded just like DU this silly season and we saw no reason to participate. So it wasn't just me - the system is dysfunctional.

HRC stands where I would not, taking blows I would not accept. So she's doing what she must and I contributed what I could.

If you can't respect that, again ... it's your problem. I'm entirely satisfied w/the role I must play today - and hers.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Good to hear

Better you and your fellow Hillary supporters pay her debts off than others.

[LibraLiz1973]

How gracious of you.

I just can not understand why many of the Obama supporters here on DU feel the need to be so RUDE.

[Cheap_Trick]

17. yes, because we're the ONLY ones who have been rude

:eyes::sarcasm:

[Catherina]

25. We're only rude to assholes. In Fredda's case there's a trail of racist posts

that leave a bitter taste in people's mouths.

Don't expect politeness towards people who have a very clear problem with Black folks and keep playing that sick Jews against Blacks game.

[MercutioATC]

2. It's your money. You can obviously spend it as you see fit.

I'll admit that I don't understand sending money to a defunct campaign, but I don't have to. If it works for you, more power to you.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. I wish we could derive a sustainable energy source from melodrama.

[JVS]

16. I think experimenting with that in this forum might cause an explosion that would destroy the world

[still_one]

4. I can respect that, and the passion of her supporters. However, if they

don't get behind the Democratic candidate in November, that I cannot accept or have any respect for

[scheming daemons]

5. Good for you, actually (and sincerely). Helps make sure the little people get paid...

...and not stiffed by Hillary's campaign.

[Fredda Weinberg]

18. Exactly. If I don't take personal responsiblity, who else? n/t

[dkf]

6. Hey, I hope every Hillary supporter has the wherewithal to max out

Did you see that she owes Oregon schools money? That really stinks.

I feel so bad for her debtors that I'd donate too, if I could stand her.

[NeedleCast]

7. No Problem

Someone is going to have to pay off her crushing debt and I'd rather it not by my tax dollars.

[kid a]

8. Thank you for your contribution to the DNC

Every cent to her eases the burden on the DNC and Barack, and helps us as a team go to Nov. strong!!

[AuntPatsy]

9. Nice to see a positive post, the backstabbing toward Sen Clinton

makes me sick, dignity seems to have no place in far too many Dur's posts and if you ask me that makes them no better than the rw swift boating mechanisms....some can deny it all they like but the comparisons are glaringly obvious....


I will vote Dem regardless but I don't feel the need to destroy another in an attempt to ensure my personal choice for presidential candidate succeeds..I am pretty disillusioned with what GDP has allowed to fester.

[Fredda Weinberg]

23. I call this silly season. That helps n/t

[Blue Diadem]

10. No need to explain Fredda. It's your choice

I wish more of her supporters would step up and donate so she can pay her bills.

and please don't let Hillary convince you that you're invisible.

[Fredda Weinberg]

20. I deliberately accepted this role. I work w/a troika of recent male grads

so it's always ... unique when we hold meetings. So the interns and "the boys" spent yesterday together, but I was there - Chris was in charge that day.

Honestly, I'm no victim, which is why I must contribute now. Others who can, should and will. This has been an honorable endeavor from the start ... and there's a happy ending for Hillary - you'll see.

[ulysses]

11. hell, it's your money.

:shrug:

[rodeodance]

12. i gave a bit for standing tall.

[Fredda Weinberg]

22. Exactly. HRC didn't ask for more than a gesture today. Bless her

And that comes from a secure atheist. Whatever providence offers, she's earned it.

[wurzel]

13. Why not simply donate to McCain?

The longer this goes on the more the MSM has the excuse to focus on this nonsense instead of McCain and Phil Gramm. Frankly I don't care who got the Dem nomination. That is just the personal ambition of Obama and Hillary. But it matters to me that McCain not merely is defeated but that the entire leadership of this Republicans party is defeated. And our country, (Republican and Democratic) come to its senses.

[Fredda Weinberg]

24. Well, one of us cared ... so let's part apathetically and not insult each other n/t

[Occam Bandage]

14. Someone has to make sure her vendors get paid.

[supernova]

15. That's nice of you to help her retire her campaign debt.

[Fredda Weinberg]

21. Unlike netroots, the Clintons have a large audience. She only has to ask n/t

[dsomuah]

26. So why didn't her "many supporters" contribute during the race?

This is somthing I've never understood. Clintons supporters talked and talked calling Obama every name under the sun, you people couldn't put your money where your mouths were? You allowed your hero's campaign to become mired in debt? Why didn't you give the maximum amount in February when she was loaning her campaign money?

[PoliticalAmazon]

19. Please, donate a lot and often. She has a huge debt to pay. n/t

[Renew Deal]

27. Some of you people are frightening.

For more reasons than I'm allowed to list.

[hokies4ever]

28. Too bad there's something larger at stake that Hillary's ego.

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. For the most brilliant physicist/software programmer/linguist/historian on Earth

You sure do throw a lot of good money after bad...

:rofl:

[bvar22]

30. "I'm entirely satisfied w/the role I must play today - and hers."

When that role is attacking the Democratic Nominee and damaging the Democratic Party (eg: the hysterical nonsense at the DNC last weekend),
then I disagree.

But DO send in your money.
Mark Penn wants a new Lamborghini.


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

[wowimthere]

31. did you even care that she voted for this war? That vote wasn't invisible. Men aren't your problem

I think it may very well be the way you see yourself. Clinton got 18 million votes. Does that sound like women are invisible. Women are the backbone of the entire world. But let's be real there are women who would make great presidents and just like men their are women who would make bad presidents. Based on her war vote, Hillary Clinton had the makings of a bad president before she entered the contest.

If Clinton had voted no on the IWR, she would be the president. The cost of life is due in part by her costly vote for war. As a woman who has had a child, who could she have done it? Short sighted ambition.

[Raven]

32. I'm not sure what the "sugar daddy" episode has to do with

this campaign but I'm glad you donated because there are some "little folks" up here in NH who never got paid for feeding Senator Clinton and her campaign people and it's been months now. I wish her great fortune in retiring her debt and making it right with the floks who helped her along the way.