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URBAN THOUGHT COLLECTIVE: Hillary: Pay your own bills like the rest of us
Hello from Urban Thought Collective.com,
*Is it just me or is this Hillary Clinton debt situation completely preposterous?
Surely there have been expensive campaigns before and it's conceivable that both the winning and losing campaigns alike went into the hole.
However, I've had it up to here (I've momentarily stopped typing, stood up, placed my right hand over the top of my head with the palm down, shaking it for emphasis) with the expectation that Barack or anybody in his camp should help to reconcile Hillary Clinton's debt.
Why has it become headline news that there is some issue over paying off Hillary's debt? I ask you to take special note of the apostrophe "s" after the word Hillary which clearly implies that the ownership of said debt is solely her own.
I know the English language can be a bit obscure and confusing with all of its funky rules and such, so let's try it in Spanish. If you caught this story on CNN en Espanol you might hear that lovely Patricia Janiot call it "la deuda de Hillary", or debt of Hillary.
The whole thing sounds to me like a kid that wrecked her daddy's car and now wants a do-over.
"I was just playing…I didn't mean anybody any harm…I'm sorry. Can you take care of the damage for me? Thanks."
But sadly, these are grown people we're talking about. Very, very educated grown people. Hillary has a bachelor's degree from Wellesley and a law degree from Yale. With my little bachelor's degree, I can wrap my head around the concept that if I, of my own volition, choose to overextend myself financially, then I and only I am on the hook for taking care of any debts owed.
Hillary lost. It has pretty much been a wrap since February or March, but she kept the whole ugly affair going. Surely it cost millions to turn up the negative advertising heat and to fly her people around the country in total panic mode for an additional 4 months.
In fairness to Hillary, she was ...
TO FINISH THE THOUGHT, VISIT: http://urbanthoughtcollective.com/2008/07/13/destah-owens-hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-debt/
Urban Thought Collective is a new digital community exploring everything from pop culture to politics from an African-American perspective. Destah Owens is a single father of two from Northern California and proud UCLA Bruin who travels the world for his job as a computer engineer. His blog, "Soufflés in Saigon," is exclusive to Urban Thought Collective.
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