Compare and contrast these presidential fundraising headlines from The Politico today,

Obama on pace to raise $30 mil in Feb.

and

Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million.

Wow. Pick your prefered cliche; perception is reality, money talks, cash is king, whatever, this is a PR nightmare for the Clinton campaign.

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson confirms:

Late last month Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million. The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton’s commitment to this effort and to ensuring that our campaign has the resources it needs to compete and win across this nation. We have had one of our best fundraising efforts ever on the web stoday and our Super Tuesday victories will only help in bringing more support for her candidacy.

When asked on the campaign trail today, Hillary quipped,

“The results last night proved the wisdom of my investment..”

Ah yes, the wisdom of her investments. In some circles, Hillary is a well know investment guru. She famously turned $1000 into $100,000 in less than a year investing in risky cattle futures. At that pace, she could turn $5 million into $500 million before the general election!

Since she brought up the subject of investments, let’s take a walk down memory lane,

Hillary’s Bull Marketby CLAUDIA ROSETT
Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:01 a.m. EDT

In New York’s Senate race, Republican Rick Lazio has been too gentlemanly to remind voters of the murkier issues surrounding his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is even crying foul over Mr. Lazio daring to circulate copies of our recent editorial arguing that a Senate victory, given her prominent role in scandal defense, would be an “an absolution of her husband’s moral and ethical standards.” So we guess it’s also up to us to indelicately mention another of those flagrantly disturbing episodes in Mrs. Clinton’s career: her quick profit of nearly $100,000 on a $1,000 stake in the futures markets…

…The question becomes all the more interesting because it isn’t merely a matter of history. There is room to wonder whether there were swaps of favors over the years. Mrs. Clinton’s mentor of the market, Mr. Blair, numbers among the Clintons’ Lincoln-bedroom guests, both from the early 1990s and the past 15 months.

The Lincoln bedroom…so many memories. The Clinton’s sordid past is around every corner. Forget about the cloak of inevitability, she’s starting to take on the look of a loser.