# Unlimited Funds for Hillary? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809 "2004-11-20T06:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roseworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@Roseworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roseworm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/1 "2004-11-20T06:46:41Z")
Here are the facts: Hillary has her own room or wing at the new Clinton Presidential Library. Let us assume she will probably use it as an HQ for her 2008 presidential bid. Donations to a presidential library are not covered or restricted by _any_ campaign-finance laws. The money can be used in _any_ way the Library Board allows. The library is under _no_ legal obligation to divulge the source of the donations. All I can say is: Wow! Theoretically, Hillary (through the Library Board) can accept _any_ amount of money from _any_ source (France, Saudi Arabia, Communist China) with _absolutely_ no legal restrictions. All we have to do is watch the Library Board. If it gets stacked with Hillary cronies and campaign advisors… ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/2 "2004-11-20T06:55:30Z")
_eyes roll so hard they fall out of my head and force me to feel around under my desk for them_ ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/3 "2004-11-20T06:58:21Z")
> [@Roseworm](#): > > Here are the facts: > > Hillary has her own room or wing at the new Clinton Presidential Library. Every First Lady gets her own section of a Presidential Library. So what? > [@](#): > > Let us assume she will probably use it as an HQ for her 2008 presidential bid. Why would you assume that? > [@](#): > > Donations to a presidential library are not covered or restricted by _any_ campaign-finance laws. > > The money can be used in _any_ way the Library Board allows. > > The library is under _no_ legal obligation to divulge the source of the donations. > > All I can say is: > > Wow! > > Theoretically, Hillary (through the Library Board) can accept _any_ amount of money from _any_ source (France, Saudi Arabia, Communist China) with _absolutely_ no legal restrictions. > > All we have to do is watch the Library Board. If it gets stacked with Hillary cronies and campaign advisors… When they say that Hillary is “getting her own room” or “wing” or whatever, it does not mean that she is being given ownership of a section to put to her own use, it means that there will be a public display/archive about her. People can donate to the library but that’s not money that could be used for any political campaign, nor are you going to see an HRC campaign headquarters setting up camp in a public building in Arkansas. These places are like museums, not office bulidings. What are you a fucking dunce or something? ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/4 "2004-11-20T07:05:54Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > What are you a fucking dunce or something? I’ll just go ahead and assume you meant that as a rhetorical question. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/5 "2004-11-20T07:25:18Z")
There is no reason she should share space with Bill. She is entitled to her own prevarication wing for issues related to Whitewater. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/6 "2004-11-20T07:31:10Z")
O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of Crimson joy; And his secret dark love Does thy life destroy. –William Blake My god, **Roseworm**. Remove the tinfoil from your head. It won’t stop the Democrats from lobotomizing you when they finally haul you away, anyway. It’s much too thin. Unless they already have. Which would explain a lot, quite frankly. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/7 "2004-11-20T07:36:20Z")
> [@Roseworm](#): > > Let us assume she will probably use it as an HQ for her 2008 presidential bid. Let us assume that we are mouth-breathing idiots who can barely eat a sandwich without serious injury. What, then, do we do at 4 pm every Thursday? Do we mess ourselves and sit around in our own filth until someone changes us, or do we stumble around the closet ineptly trying to find the glue and construction paper and write a letter to Santa Claus? Let us assume that Santa is Hillary’s running mate and Vice President. Will taxpayers have to subsidize the care of a heard of magic flying reindeer? Will we still have to pay for the upkeep of Airforce One even though the President and Vice President can travel faster than sound in a sled powered by love and the happy dreams of children? Can we change the national motto to “Peace on Earth and goodwill toward men,” or does this violate the Equal Protection Clause, the separation of church and state, Title IX, the speed limit, and the Treaty of Tripoli? And why is it called Tripoli? There’s only one of it. And who is Cecil Adams anyway? Is he John Gault? I trust my point is clear. When you start by making moronic assumptions like the ones in your OP, I wonder what the hell you’re trying to accomplish. It doesn’t make Hillary look bad, it doesn’t make anyone suspicious of her, it just makes people wonder what the hell is wrong with you. Speaking of which, what the hell IS wrong with you? You’ve peaked my curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/8 "2004-11-20T07:56:53Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > There is no reason she should share space with Bill. She is entitled to her own prevarication wing for issues related to Whitewater. She was exonerated in Whitewater. Maybe you haven’t heard but it turned out that was all bulshit. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/9 "2004-11-20T08:09:04Z")
Come to think of it, there will be a George W. Bush Presidential Library soon enough. I may live to see it if the irony of a George W. Bush Library doesn’t kill me. So couldn’t everything **Roseworm** says here also be true about Laura Bush? She’ll get her own room, she could use it as her HQ to run for President in maybe 2012, or the Senate or something. And she’ll secretly fund her campaign with cash from Iran and Al Qaeda and Halliburton and everything, really she could. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/10 "2004-11-20T08:17:55Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Speaking of which, what the hell IS wrong with you? You’ve peaked my curiosity. Three guesses who **Roseworm** voted for in the 2004 Presidential Election. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/11 "2004-11-20T08:26:37Z")
I’m guessin’ Jethro Q. Walrus-Titty, of the Monster Raving Loonie Party. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/12 "2004-11-20T08:41:49Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Three guesses who **Roseworm** voted for in the 2004 Presidential Election. :rolleyes: Not even the Republican party would fess up to this one… (another)Great OP, Ringworm! Sam ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/13 "2004-11-20T08:42:16Z")
**Marley23** : If ever we should meet at a dopefest, I owe you a beer. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long while. ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/14 "2004-11-20T09:02:59Z")
**Roseworm** , with all due respect, it’s fucking morons like you that give conservatives like me a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/15 "2004-11-20T10:03:20Z")
Not to worry — if they don’t give her enough money, she’ll take what she wants. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/16 "2004-11-20T10:12:10Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > **Marley23** : If ever we should meet at a dopefest, I owe you a beer. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long while. Thank you very much. 🙂 I don’t drink, but we’ll figure something out. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/17 "2004-11-20T10:34:49Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > When you start by making moronic assumptions like the ones in your OP, I wonder what the hell you’re trying to accomplish. They’re not assumptions, they’re facts. Facts I tells you. Facts. How do I knows they’s facts? A magic pixie fairy told me. Or maybe it was Vibratin’ O’Reilly. I don’t know. It’s all true here in bizarro bunker. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/18 "2004-11-20T10:38:25Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > They’re not assumptions, they’re facts. Facts I tells you. Facts. How do I knows they’s facts? A magic pixie fairy told me. Or maybe it was Vibratin’ O’Reilly. I don’t know. It’s all true here in bizarro bunker. Just remember, the secret word is “Falafel.” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/19 "2004-11-20T10:47:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The secret word is “Falafel.” Ah ha! Using some dang Ayrab word. This proves you’re either for us or against us! I knew it! Mission accomplished! ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809/20 "2004-11-20T15:23:32Z")
I enjoyed the image of a library wing, full of spectacled researcher quietly browsing through records, trying despretely to ignore the national presidential campaign going on in the corner. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlimited-funds-for-hillary/275809.md?page=2)