Hillary Clinton paid a heavy price for presidential run

NY Daily News ^ | 6/9/08 | CELESTE KATZ

[jimbo123]

Eighteen million votes: $212 million. Some 1,926 delegates: $109,823 a pop. Blowing the biggest head start in presidential history: priceless.

From anointed to also-ran, Hillary Clinton spent more money to lose a primary election than any candidate in Democratic Party history.

"The Clinton campaign found itself without adequate money at the beginning of 2008," chief strategist Mark Penn wrote in a published Op-Ed yesterday - but it was enough of a cash stash to fund the causes she championed.

The money raised could have been better spent.

Instead of throwing it at a failed political bid, Clinton could have achieved a lot of her goals.

The former First Lady, an outspoken proponent of family values, might have delivered a much-needed vacation to working families: sending more than 76,000 families of four from New York to California to visit Mickey, Donald and Goofy.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Instead of throwing it at a failed political bid, Clinton could have achieved a lot of her goals.

Huh?

She always only had one.

[ICE-FLYER]

How about she could have not LIED to us over and over and over again? How about fricken honest for once? How about that? I don't care about the money...its a reality...I DO care about that one little problem that the Clinton's seem to never get away from...they can NOT be honest. Everything is a calculated action meant to foster a FALSE image of them self and if they outright lie to your face its okay.

[mylife]

The former First Lady, an outspoken proponent of family values

L0L!

[mylife]

Hillarious!

[InvisibleChurch]

Well, that’s stupid, it’s not like people would have given her 212mill had she NOT been running for office ..... or am i missing something?

[Arthur McGowan]

She could have paid for 424,000 abortions. Not universal coverage, but it’s a start.

[vietvet67]

One down - one to go..

[theDentist]

The former First Lady, an outspoken proponent of family values...

like homosexuality, abortion, perjury...

[doosee]

Wasnt Penn getting $4mm a year to manage her campaign?

[Chode]

the Beast is now officially, the biggest Looooser in history... at least in her own mind she is, and that's what counts!

she has been groomed her whole life building up to this moment in time.

all those years of work, of the cheating, scheming, lying, thieving, bribery and corruption... all for naught.

she was inevitable, it was hers for the taking, and she blew it. how frustrating it must all be.

even her stolen FBI files were no help against some whelp out of nowhere... this clean, well spoken magic negro beat her at her own game, in spades.

she'll prolly be on suicide watch when this is over.

[CWWren]

Apparently no one cares to ask the Dragon Lady about the pile of dead bodies left in their wake on their trek to higher politics and the ultimate millions they have accumulated.

The following deaths aren’t so mysterious and the list is not complete:

1-James McDougal - Clinton's convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.

2 -Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown. The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.

3- Vince Foster - Former White House councilor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.

4- Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later, the air Traffic controller committed suicide.

5- C. Victor Raiser II- Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.

6-Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock, September 1992. Described by Clinton as a "Dear friend and trusted advisor".

7-Ed Willey - Clinton fund raiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.

8-Jerry Parks -Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock was gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. Park's son said his father was building dossier on Clinton. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.

9-James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a "Black Book" of people that contained names of influential people who had visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas.

10-James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater.

11-Kathy Ferguson, Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to the back of her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.

12-Bill Shelton, Arkansas State Trooper and fiancée of Kathy Ferguson, was critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancée, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancée.

13-Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton's friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.

14-Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena, Arkansas Airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.

15- Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. She was pregnant at the time of her death.

16-Paula Grober - Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one-car accident.

17-Danny Casolaro – Reporter investigating Mena Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He apparently slit his wrists in the middle of his investigation.

18- Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993 in his Washington DC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno three weeks before his death.

19-Jon Parnell Walker - Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington, Virginia apartment balcony August15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.

20-Barbara Wise - A Commerce Department staffer who worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Her cause of death is unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.

21-Charles Meissner -Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.

22-Dr. Stanley Heard - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton's advisory council personally treated Clinton's mother, stepfather and brother.

23-Barry Seal -Drug running TWA pilot out of Mena Arkansas, death was not an accident.

24-Johnny Lawhorn Jr. – Mechanic. He found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. Died when his car had hit a utility pole.

25-Stanley Huggins - Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a supposed suicide and his report was never released.

26- Hershell Friday - Attorney and Clinton fund raiser died March 1,1994 when his plane exploded.

27-Kevin Ives & Don Henry - Known as "The boys on the track" case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said, due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim they had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many others linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.These lucky people had information on the Ives/Henry case.

28-Keith Coney - Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck in July 1988.

29-Keith McMaskle - Stabbed 113 times in November 1988.

30-Gregory Collins - Died from a gunshot wound in January 1989.

31-Jeff Rhodes - Shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.

33-James Milan - Found decapitated. The Coroner ruled his death was due to "natural causes" (maybe he’s seen enough mysterious Clinton related death to realize how easily he could be added to the list).

34-Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.

35-Richard Winters - A suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths, was killed in a set-up robbery in July 1989. .

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Why is the media so concerned about the money Hillary spent? Romney lost money too, and he handled the situation himself. Is it illegal for Bill Clinton to pay these debts?

[bimbo]

... even her stolen FBI files were no help

Obama was an unimportant non-entity when she had Livingstone steal those 900 files ... but she was very fortunate to have Moynihan's in 2000 so he could resign his Senate seat, and to have Guliani's so he could exit that same senate race.

[SlapHappyPappy]

That was my thought. Her only goal is power, so I don’t think the money could have been spent any other way to try to achieve that goal.

Hell, anyone that looked at her original healthcare plan could tell it was a massive powergrab and not really designed to improve healthcare.

[Vinnie]

Between her and Slick, they had plenty of money. But they wanted to spend someone else's .
So what's new?

[bray]

This loss probably cost Clinton Inc a $B in potential Graft and Bribes.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[OrioleFan]

I guess you could say she tossed it down a RAT hole.

Seriously, Clinton showed everyone how to waste other people’s money. What she did in her campaign is nothing different than what Congress does every day.

[King Hawk]

How much face putty would $212 million buy?

[Walkingfeather]

Its the media who is the ultimate winner every 2 years with all the commercial and print media that is purchased. The press has absolutley no motivation to change the system.