Money to Burn

Mondo checked out the Obama/Clinton debate last night and was left with the conclusion that both candidates are equally qualified for office and therefore the debate was a tie.

As far as Mondo's concerned, the tie breaker is the candidate's campaign finances. After all, running the country involves managing a budget trillions of dollars so what better indicator of a candidate's ability to lead the nation than the way they handle their $100 million plus budgets because eventually one of them as President will be spending your hard earned tax dollars.

The New York Times is reporting today that "Clinton Donors Worried by Campaign’s Spending." According to the article "Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising...As part of their get-out-the-vote effort in Iowa, the campaign came up with a plan to have a local supermarket deliver sandwich platters to pre-caucus parties. It spent more than $95,384 on Jan. 1 at Hy-Vee Inc., a local grocery chain in West Des Moines, Iowa, in addition to buying loads of snow shovels to clear the walks for caucusgoers. Mrs. Clinton came in third in the Jan. 3 caucus. It did not snow...Clinton paid $275,000 to Sunrise Communications, a South Carolina firm that was supposed to turn out black voters for her and collected nearly $800,000 in total. She lost...In January: the campaign spent more than $11,000 on pizza and $1,200 on Dunkin’ Donuts runs."

Wow! Hillary's already spending like she's the President.

Mondo's wondering, "Whose Xeroxing Who?"