Obama should pay all his money to Hillary afterall it is Hillary who he is gonna need to get elected as his vice president or to deliver states that Obama needs like Massachusetts, New York and California. Obama can't win them without her and should pay all her debts.  even the ones that go to mark penn because he is a genius political strategeist and democrats needs him if they want to beat mccain.  LOLZZZZ how can obama donors be soooo o dumb not to see this!!!!!! OMGGGGGGGGGGGG

Considering all the money Hillary Clinton is helping Obama and the DNC raise that is pretty churlish. I've seen reports that she has raised over $50 million for him already.

These Obama donors don't really do unity, do they?

I chipped in my $100, but this topic is a little mystifying to me.  Nobody can quantify how much is supposed to be paid or what is to be received in return.  Also, I just don't understand why this would affect "unity" - I can't remember ever being up in arms about the winning candidate's efforts, or lack thereof, in helping to retire my candidate's campaign debt.  This whole thing just seems very bizarre.  I've tried to help to the extent possible, but really I don't get it.

Water carrying?  During an election?  With the best chance of a Democratic victory and majority in both houses of Congress?  Really?

I made a small donation to her campaign the day after she dropped out, just as I promised.  It really wasn't much, but the biggest donation I've ever given anybody was $25.  This cycle I've donated to the Obama campaign four or five times, but always quite small.

Still, I chipped in a bit.  Said I would.

She can afford to pay off her own debt.  

I'm getting increasingly frustrated at the anti-Obama spin that is coming out from the NYT lately. That aside. Obama, can't simply write a check for Clinton. That is against campaign finance rules.
o even if he wanted to, he can't.

The issue is being overplayed. I have no doubt that ultimately we will find a way to retire the Clinton debt. I don't expect that after only one month. It will take time. Give it time.

Sorry, but she wouldn't have all this debt if she had behaved like a normal candidate and left the race when it became clear that she couldn't win the majority of pledged delegates and that her fundraising was not adequate to cover costs.

In my estimation, that would have been after Wisconsin.

That also would have avoided a lot of the bitterness she generated by her claims about MI and FL and the like.

She put herself (and the party, to some extent) in this pickle, and I don't intend to donate to help her out of it, particularly with the high energy costs.

The Obama people need to get over their hatred of HIllary already. This debt thing is more about still hating Hillary. GET OVER IT! You Won!

First, I give credit due for writing your piece.  Thank you.

That said, I disagree with your main thrust.  There are many people who are smart enough, clean enough, and patriotic enough to be Senators or Presidents.  They choose to just become donors and backers instead because they value having the freedom to speak their minds.  I don't blame them.  I don't disdain them for taking their legitimate and/or illegitimate gripes to the press.  Like it and hate it, that's frequently the way problems get solved.  Some things have to blow up before they go away.

Second, Obama and Clinton are both multimillionaires, and big kids to boot.  Bill will just have to give a few more speeches or make a few more shady business deals.

If it were Obama, I'd say the same thing--he'd just have to put his name on another ghost-written book, or once again toss some pork toward the University of Chicago Hospitals until his wife's salary doubles a couple more times.

This is not the Republican Party.  There is no eleventh commandment here.  Some of us prefer it that way.

I understand the notion of some large donors helping out, but a lot of us, myself included, can't justify giving money to pay off the debt of a multi-millionaire.