As an Obama supporter, I certainly feel that my "hard earned" money went to specifically help him win over HRC and I would be LIVID if even one cent of it went to help her pay her debts.  She knew exactly when and what she was doing and saying in her failing campaign so to turn around now and ask for help is beyond the pale.  Actually for those HRC "groupies" who say they are Democrats but vow they will NEVER vote Obama, I suggest that since HRC instilled and enabled their hateful feelings toward Obama, these "groupies" should now be required to pay her debt!  It appears they were ONLY Dems if their candidate won, and since I believe she "poisoned" their minds with such 'racist, bigoted thoughts and lies' against Obama that they now prefer to vote "GOP McSame"!  As retribution, they should be mandated to pay her tab!

I totally agree, but I think you mean anemic, not amenic.

It's not about Sen. Obama's campaign paying it, it's about any money at all that would go to Obama or the DNC, etc. going to her debt instead. There should be a law against continuing to campaign and run up debt in campaigns when you aren't raising anywhere near what you are "spending" or whatever it is you call it when you campaign via credit card. There should be a max amount of credit or something.

I feel slightly bad for the local print shops and caterers, etc., who won't get paid (although they must have known there was a risk they wouldn't get paid), but I bet Mark Penn will, which makes me sick to my stomach. Again I supported her but $30 Million in plastic, and we were supposed to trust her judgment? I am so disillusioned.

I say not one slim dime!

Just wanted to give Obama supporters a quick heads-up.  Federal election law prohibits Obama from giving part of his war chest to Clinton to cover her debts.  He would have to send a specific fundraising email to give her money. 

I felt better after finding this out, as I am a donor. 

They don't owe any money. We don't pay they say. We expect others to pay as they always have in the past. Get off our backs!

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At one time I supported Clinton.  Since January I have been a diehard Obama supporter.  I made a real sacrifice to send monthly payments to Obama's campaign and will continue to do so.  I would be upset if Obama took time, energy, and his name to help raise one dime for Clinton.  In fact, to be honest, I will stop giving to the campaign. Let the Clintons take the money from the millions that they have made.  We need every dime and the time it takes to get it to fight McCain.  We would not have needed as much had Clinton not been so nice to McCain at the expense of Obama.  Since she handed McCain material that he will continue to use in the general election against Obama, let McCain help her retire the debt. 

The thing that killed me was that Clinton had the sheer nerve to run out of money, keep on with her ego-serving campaign and then..... take an 11-year-old kid's bike money!  And talk about it in her speeches!  Unbelievable. She even brought it up in her horrible speech on Tuesday night.  

Although a lot of news stories make it seem as if Obama will directly pay her debts, in reality the only thing he can do is HELP HER FUNDRAISE to pay her debts. Any money donated to him already is safe and cannot be redirected to her.

 I totally agree with this blog post.  To book arenas, ask vendors and printers and television stations to provide you goods and services when you have no means and no intentions of paying them is such a crock.  I understand that despite her claims for wanting health insurance for all - that she owes $2 million to the insurance company which covered her staffers.

The Clintons have a lot more money than those supporters on her blog - it's so sad to read that blog and see how these people are still making donations to her cause and promising to go to Denver to fight for her.  In fact, it's really interesting how her blog seems toss off any comments which suggest she be open to VP - and contains almost nothing but "I'll never vote for Obama posts". 

Mitt Romney paid for $35 million of his own campaign expenses, Corzine paid millions, there are a lot of multi-millionaires who paid for their own campaigns.  They were businessmen whose sense of personal responsibility meant that meant that they didn't take what they didn't have the means to pay for.  What's so sick about the Clintons is that they never intend to pay for their own bills - but always assume someone else will pick up the tab.  As for this talk of "it's done a lot" - it's never been done on this scale!  The most I've seen mentioned as debt being paid off by another campaign was $861,000.

I would suggest that all those special interests and lobbies that the DNC aren't taking donations from and the defense contractors - be the ones to step up for Hillary's campaign.   Bill raised over $30 billion which was put in the Global Initiative fund - some were legit donations and some was through business deals - like $15 million from Khazastan.

 Mitt Romney ran a very good ad - she's never run a government, she's never run a large corporation, she's never even run a corner store - how would she run the country?  Well, now we know.  It would be fiscal irresponsibility, all daily drama and the blame game, alienating those she needs to work with, tall tales to American people made directly by her, constant bald-faced lies by surrogates like Lanny Davis, Wolfson, nasty comments for any Congressman she labels an enemy by people like Ickes and Carville, backroom deals by Bill with Columbia, China, and other countries.

 She knows that sucking $20 million from people who've support the DNC is $20 million less for putting Barack Obama in the White House.  And that's what they want.

The point is: any money by whoever who, that will be donated to Clinton -her depts- is kept/taken away from more important and legal targets, such as Obama campaign and the DNC!

Clintons dept: Clinton Library / Foundation has 500 ! million in the pocket (donors!), the Clintons private have at least 150 (!) million in the pocket...
Her campaign depts were made at a time she already knew she couln't win...
I think the Clintons themselves can easily pay all campaign depts: they have to!

In an interview with Brian Williams for MSNBC on Wednesday after he won the primary election he said that he has no plans to help her raise money to pay off her debt.

He is aware of the media gossip and reports, which were started by Tim Russert of MSNBC in his primary election commentary.

He said in the interview that Clinton has not spoken to him about raising money to pay off her debt and as far as he is concerned she is capable of sorting out her own finances.

The question here as stated above is whether people choose to give money to pay off her debt independently rather than giving to Obama or the DNC.

Her website is still up. Yesterday she was still sending out emails with a link going to an online donations sections of her site. So essentially she is still competing with Obama and the DNC for money.

Now that she has suspended her campaign l dont know whether she would be able to claim any money back. Maybe who knows, but that is her business.

She claims to be good at economics and is good at fiscal responsibility so she should prove it. Manage her budget and work her way out of debt without depriving the Obama campaign or the DNC of the money they vitally need to win in November.

Here is the interview where she talks about paying off her debts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25011968#24974708

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1. As previously mentioned, Obama funds cannot be used to bail out Clinton.

2. Clinton creditors will need to be paid at some point or there will be many "illegal" in-kind contributions on the books.

3. There is nothing wrong with Obama assisting Clinton with fundraising ... AFTER he has won the General Election in November!

I have no problem with post-election help, again with the proviso that any such money would not have been used for the general.

As to Mr. Carvill, and Govs. Rendell and Corzine et al. helping, that's not how it works. They've already given her all they can. Contributions to pay off her debt have follow the same rules as if she was collecting contributions as she was running, i.e., they are still subject to the $2,300 per person maximum contribution. That's why this is such a serious issue.

Mrs. Clinton's fundraising troubles were, in large part, because she got her friends and friends' friends to give her the maximum donation early, but she then could not go back to the same people because they were done until the general election (she has something like $40 Million in her general election account that she can't use; those same people also maxed out for the general after they could no longer give in the primaries). Sen. Obama, on the other hand, got both large and many small donations and he could return to those small donors time and time again.

Thus, she needs new donors to retire her debt. The party and our nominee cannot afford having new donors, or those who did not max out to her in the primaries, giving her money, when that money could be used to help Sen. Obama win.

The only acceptable solution is for her to wait until after the election to get donations. As Mr. Owens pointed out she can't even get write-offs, otherwise those would be illegal in-kind donations exceeding the maximum contribution. This mess makes me angrier all the time, because a lot of those local businesses really deserve to get paid now, and the only way they can be, without hurting the party and our nominee, is for Sen. Clinton to use her own funds to pay them, because (correct me if I'm wrong) I think candidates don't have a cap for using their own money.

Depending on what happens with this, I might start a website on this topic, Sen. Clinton created this mess by not stopping when she ran out of money, our nominee should now be hurt because of her stubborness, and ability to continue running up her campaign "credit card."