Political Punch

Nobody thinks it is a good idea to pay off Clinton's debt. She is woth $109 million, a multi multi millionare who chose to loan millions to herself and chose to keep going even though she was millions in debt. She was fiscally irresponsible and unlike many Americans now, she can afford to pay her own debt.

Both Clinton and Obama have built impressive organizations. It cost them millions to build. It is unreasonable that she would just hand over access to her donors and network of election workers without some compensation for the expenses she incurred in building her organization. She isn't expected to make a profit but erasing her debt is a totally reasonable proposal.

Of course, Obama could in the short amount of time left before the November election try to rebuild the Clinton coalition from scratch but that would unwise. 26 million voters have voted for Senator Clinton and the easiest access to them would be through Senator Clinton. This is just good business.

Obama-Clinton ticket would have swing state difficulties. I agree whole hardily.
I refused the latest Obama solicitation for contributions saying that I would not give any more if Sen. Clinton was VP or Obama paid off the two multimillionaires (Penn and the Clintons)

Yo, Barack and Larry Sinclair never ruled out this option! You Clinton supporters need to take a chill pill already! Barack will hooks you up with some bling!

This is an unbelievable comment. He has simply purchased every political position he has assumed. I agree with DMK: he's bought the race with money we have not yet learned the source of and now he thinks he can buy just about anything else he wants including Hillary's good will??? This is so ugly that I can't believe we are seeing it in this country. Axelrod; Rezko; Auchi;Bill Ayers;the idiot Wright.... why do we have to watch this stuff bought by some fool who thinks he's a Democrat?

Why don't her supporters bail her out if they feel so passionate about her. Hilary's spending has been reckless and irresponsible.

She paid too high salaries to her campaign staff and their consulting companies. It shows what kind ot government she would have run. Nepotism.

I think the FEC rules does not allow the Obama campaign to directly pay off Clinton's debt. I donated my money to Obama NOT to Clinton and he better not use my money to pay her.

They can hold special fundraisers to help with her debt (which I would not be donating to). Fact is the Clinton were fiscally reckless and we hardworking people should not be bailing out millionaires.

CLINTONS ARE SHAMELESS THIEVES!

The last time the Clintons had to make a big exit was at the end of Bill Clinton’s second term as president — and

they made a complete and utter hash of that historic moment. Having survived the Monica Lewinsky ordeal, you might

have thought the Clintons would be on their best behavior.

Instead, a huge scandal erupted when it became known that Mrs. Clinton’s brothers, Tony and Hugh Rodham, had lobbied

the president on behalf of criminals who then received presidential pardons or a sentence commutation from Mr.

Clinton.

Tony Rodham helped get a pardon for a Tennessee couple that had hired him as a consultant and paid or loaned him

hundreds of thousands of dollars. Over the protests of the Justice Department, President Clinton pardoned the

couple, Edgar Allen Gregory Jr. and his wife, Vonna Jo, who had been convicted of bank fraud in Alabama.

Hugh Rodham was paid $400,000 to lobby for a pardon of Almon Glenn Braswell, who had been convicted of mail fraud

and perjury, and for the release from prison of Carlos Vignali, a drug trafficker who was convicted and imprisoned

for conspiring to sell 800 pounds of cocaine. Sure enough, in his last hours in office (when he issued a blizzard of

pardons, many of them controversial), President Clinton agreed to the pardon for Braswell and the sentence

commutation for Vignali.

Hugh Rodham reportedly returned the money after the scandal became public and was an enormous political liability

for the Clintons.

Both Clintons professed to be ignorant of anything improper or untoward regarding the pardons. Once, when asked

specifically if she had talked with a deputy White House counsel about pardons, Mrs. Clinton said: “People would

hand me envelopes. I would just pass them on. You know, I would not have any reason to look into them.”

It wasn’t just the pardons that sullied the Clintons’ exit from the White House. They took furniture and rugs from

the White House collection that had to be returned. And they received $86,000 in gifts during the president’s last

year in office, including clothing (a pantsuit, a leather jacket), flatware, carpeting, and so on. In response to

the outcry over that, they decided to repay the value of the gifts.

So class is not a Clinton forte.

But it’s one thing to lack class and a sense of grace, quite another to deliberately try and wreck the presidential

prospects of your party’s likely nominee — and to do it in a way that has the potential to undermine the substantial

racial progress that has been made in this country over many years.

The Clintons should be ashamed of themselves. But they long ago proved to the world that they have no shame.

WHAT A SHAME! HILLARY CAN'T MANAGE HER OWN FINANCE. Why would anyone trust our country's Economy in her inefficient hands? ONLY IDIOTS WOULD SUPPORT HER.

Money can't buy the Clintons. You don't have that much money, OBAMA. You have 9m to spend in primary. Forget!!! RACE on

Go Hillary. Full gear across the finish line to the convention and file complaint against all violations in the primaries.

To all the avid Clinton supporters:

Why is it that over 60% of the country does not believe she is trustworthy? I think you are outnumbered. Vote for whoever you want to - just leave your ignorant rhetoric at home.

This just shows what a condescending ass Obama is.

PS Shields and Brooks say she owes $25 million already and vendors where she campaigns are going to start insisting on cash. Otherwise they will be at the end of the line of her creditors. It's just cause Obama isn't selfish??

I have enjoyed supporting Obama but now if he's got enough money to pay for Clinton's campaign he will not need any more from me. I need it. Why should this reckless multi-millionaire get dollars put together by people who love Obama? Then again, a gift is a gift and he can give it to her if he wants to. But that means I don't have to give him any more. Her tax documents show wealthy earnings and Bill likes to brag how they didn't need or want the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. The Clintons have got 100 times as much money as the Obamas. Why the heck would he bail her out? Some blogger said it's a common practice. Well first he needs to explain it to his little bitty donors like me.

why would Obama help clinton with her debts.....yes it would be a friendly notion....but why would he spend money that people donated for His campaign not Hers

Was the money that Obama received from Rezko coming from Hamas? Authorities should look at his "bundlers". He did money laundering once with robert Blackwell's quid pro quo.

Obama Bought delegates and now wants to buy Senator Clinton? Why is he still affraid of her? Something else in the closet?

As a very unhappy Michigan voter, I want the DNC to know they have destroyed my interest in ever again voting for a Democrat, other than Jennifer Granholm. The DNC is run by an idiot who couldn't get through the nomination process and is now destroying the process. I'm finding that John McCain isn't the evil reincarnation of a Bush that the Dems are saying - looks to me like he's going to be our next President. The Supreme Court elected Bush and the DNC is going to elect McCain. A curse on them and all their ilk for a dozen generations.

Obama is attempting to make himself look generous and Clinton desperate while the media is obviously gracious to comply. I thought she had millions in reserve for if or when she wins the nomination.

I wonder how his campaign is so flushed. The moneys aren't coming in earnest from folks contributing $25 here and $100 there on the grassroots level.

alohaone

The fact is that when Bill Clinton became president, the economy was naturally on the upswing. Because of all the Clinton's dirty dealings (too many to list) we voted in a republican majority under his administration.
The Clintons did nothing for AA. He courted the black vote because they were the most loyal base in the democratic party, and blue collar workers were voting republican.
It was because of the AA votes Bill was even reelected.
He set up shop in Harlem, because his wife had aspirations to run for president, and he wanted to mantain that base.
He signed NAFTA into law, and most of our jobs went overseas. That's why we're in this sad state of affairs now.
It's all due to the Clintons.