I HAD A WONDERFUL/TERRIBLE DREAM -- Just A Minute for Monday 6-23-08

Hello again… We’re back between trips to PA and TX – High School reunions and Grandchildren getting married. Reminds us of previous June travels when the kids were just out of school for the summer and we went camping all over the place. But travel now is hard on old bones.

We kept up with some of the news while on the road. – but the most interesting was a Friday evening discovery by Reuters News Service (UK Based) that ferreted out the fact Senators Obama and Clinton are most likely to make a joint campaign appearance in Washington on Friday when they start putting the bite on lobbyists and other BIG contributors to give once again to the joint effort to put Barak H. Obama in the White House.

Never mind Mr. O promised, along with the rest of the candidates, to forego all but publicly available campaign funds for the run at the Presidency – that was back when he thought the dollars might be scarce. But now that his Internet efforts have made his primary campaign be awash in surplus $$$ -- and there’s more where that came from, he’s ready for the taps to open. No longer railing against the BIG CAPITALISTS (like George Soros?) who unduly use their wealth to influence elections, Obama believes he can use Hillary’s connections to tap into the *really big bucks* she’s been able to touch for dough.

She’s reportedly said she’s not worried about the $11.5 million of her money (presumably Bill had a say in it being drawn out of their combined book writing, speechmaking efforts) that would be useful in replenishing the Clinton family fortune. She’s willing to put her efforts on the line to help Obama – and just perhaps open the door to being the VP candidate on the Democrat ticket. Of course she wouldn’t be thinking about that at all… riiiight.

The biggest obstacle it seems would be combining their campaign staffs. Hillary fired her long time assistant who is reportedly shopping around for a book deal and possibly was the source material for a tough Vanity Fair article on Bill. Then there’s the strategist to whom the Clinton campaign owes several million in fees – who has been cozy with the Obama campaign if Washington gossip is to be believed. What do you do with folks like that in a joint effort? I’m sure *something* can be worked out. Money talks, as Al Capone used to say. So… we’re in for some interesting if tough times.

Glad to have you here.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

I HAD THE MOST WONDERFUL/TERRIBLE DREAM!

Just A Minute – Depending on your viewpoint – the news that Hillary and Barak will be campaigning together beginning this week is your dream come true or a house of horrors nightmare.

Reuters – the British News agency broke the news Hillary has agreed to appear jointly with Senator Barak in pursuit of more millions for his presidential effort. She reportedly has said she’s willing to forego soliciting for funds to replenish her campaign coffers which are reportedly around $22 million in the hole – including about $11 and a half million out of the Hill/Bill personal bank account.

Well… nobody’s going to miss a meal over this – but it looks to me like a trial run to see if their campaign staffs (among whom there is bad blood) can cobble together a functioning campaign. My guess is they will. Never mind the Obama broken promise to stick to public funding… he’s now after the BIG lobbying contributions – and Hillary is just the one to help him jump the shark.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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