Obama Bribes Clinton For Support

This is public knowledge, but it seems a little odd to me that there isn't more criticism... When she suspended her runf for the Presidency, Hillary Clinton's campaign had about $21 million in debt. $11.4 m of this debt is to herself. Part of the agreement when Clinton dropped out to support Barack Obama was that he would help pay off her campaign debt. Consequentially, at all of his events, Obama reads a few lines about the importance of donating to the Clinton campaign to help with the debt.

This strikes me an awful lot like a bribe. Clinton has said she does not expect to repaid her money, although she certainly wouldn't reject the return of her 11.5 mil... Of course, while she might not her her money back the Clinton '12 Campaign would certainly at least benefit from starting out with good credit. That's less direct, but is still a bribe.

Anyway, the other day, Obama forgot to read these lines at an event in New York. So, he had to jumpy back on the stage and cut the music to say "This is not the speech part, but it is important... Sen. Clinton still has some debt, and I could have had some debt if I hadn't won. So I know the drill... It's very important to us, and obviously Sen. Clinton will be grateful as well."

Fortunately, this effort to raise money for Hillary has been incredibly unsuccessful. Thus far , Obama has not yet raised $100,000 thousand for Clinton. And $4,6000 of that amount is from Barack and Michelle.