Hillary started off last month with 10.3 million dollars in unpaid bills, not including what she owed herself. Since April 1st, she has loaned her campaign an additional 6.4 million dollars. Add that amount to what she has already loaned to her campaign, and you can practically see Bill Clinton scratching his head in his Harlem office wondering if 11.43 million dollars was a little excessive in his attempt to wipe the name “Monica” from his wife’s memory. After all, Kobe Bryant only had to pay 4.3 million for the purple diamond ring he slid onto his wife’s finger after his tryst with rape. So, add all this up and you see Hillary in a hole approximately 20 million dollars deep.
That’s a deep fucking hole.
I don’t even make that much in a year. Seriously.
There has been rumors of Obama advisors “chit-chatting” with the Hillary camp in order to broker a deal whereby he helps her out of her debt and she gets out of the race. 10 million is still owed to Hillary’s former Senior Advisor, Mark Penn. So, essentially it would be Obama supporters paying Penn for his Karl Rove style atrocities against Obama. Nowhere is the clang of irony more loud than in the world of politics. Add to this the topper: immediately after the ax fell on Penn for promoting trade deals Hillary was campaigning against, Howard Paster was brought in as Hillary’s COO. Anyone know Howard Paster? Mark Penn does. It’s his boss. Needless to say, Paster will be driving the Clinton machine hard toward getting that money into Penn’s greedy pocket.
And so the consensus on the street seems to be that one of the main reasons Hillary is staying in the race is for fundraising, not the White House. And, to be quite honest, she’s doing pretty well at it. Her donors are still coughing up cash like you wouldn’t believe.
So, my question is this: is it ethical?
She continues to campaign, to go out on stage and fire up her supporters, leading them to actually take her for her word: that she still has a shot at winning this. Obviously, it’s a lie. She has no chance. She’s misleading the very people that lifted her to within grasping distance of her career goal.
Look, it’s totally understandable.
It’s also totally unethical.
As much as I liked Hillary Clinton back in the day, her campaign has truly revealed an important sigh of relief: thank God she won’t be our President.
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