Does anyone besides me think this is a set-up by the Obama campaign to tag the millionaire Clintons as heartless scoundrels preying on the working class? It sounds a lot like that phony story Michelle Obama tells about the 10-year-old girl in her stump speech.  I would never have accepted that check after hearing the narrative that accompanied it.  And now Sen. Clinton has recounted it in her victory speech on national television.  With their backs against the wall, the Clintons (whose efforts are laudable) have been so enmeshed in this election cycle they no longer can see the forest for the trees.  

What's great about this is the additional irony of this comment being troll rated into oblivion. It's the allegory that keeps on giving.

than the donation of an Obamabot with a credit card Mommy and Daddy pay for.

The best thing Hillary could have done for this boy, that would still let his donation mean something is to earmark it for the General Election.

That way, he gets it back if she doesn't get there, but he gets to still have done his part.

Does anyone disagree with me on this?

Clinton will be using that money to pay back her debts and herself after she concedes.

you are absolutely correct. i would not be responding the same way if he gave it to Obama, because money given to Obama will help register millions of new voters, help end the war in Iraq, help bring about health care reform, improve our economy, and, overall, save us from another Bush third term.

I am not dissing a child. I feel bad for the kid (hence the word sad), because he probably doesn't realize that either Hillary Clinton will be out of the race in a few weeks and his money will go to paying off debts (like Penn's), or she will continue her campaign and the money will go toward further attacks on our presumptive nominee.

be the same if the donation was to Sen. Obama?

I actually have gone on record asking people not to donate to either campaign until the primary is over. I dont think Obama would have spent that much money in recent weeks had he not been this flush with cash.

If Hillary can't balance her campaign budget despite years of experience of her friends and family on the campaign trail, how is she going to curb spending in the government?

Who is dissing the kid?

wow.

If the Clintons specifically earmarked it to pay back their small vendors, then I would feel better about it.

Not much better, but better.

$440 is a lot of money even to an adult in this economy.

This is more about being a responsible steward of this child's donation than anything else.

If she wins the nomination, she'll have earned it.  If not, she should give it back.

I wanted Hillary to be president before the primaries started.

She's run a reckless and fiscally irresponsible campaign and has promised too much money to people who don't deserve it (Penn, for example).

A compromise was mentioned above, that she should earmark that for the general election and give it back if she's not the nominee.

If she wins the nomination, she'll have earned that money.

Makes it look like you are in the political process for the first time.

What is elitism if it isn't showing utter contempt for new voters?  I understand it's frustrating that 90% of them do not support your candidate, but new democrats are a good thing for any democrat.  Don't bite the newcomers.

Obama's campaign money can't go to Hillary's debt. It's illegal and you're spreading misinformation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/200805 12/pl_bloomberg/as5a58ks7ky8_1

Federal election law prohibits Obama from directly aiding Clinton through his campaign war chest; nothing stops him from asking his donors to do so.

You think he's getting paid to do this? Really, your ignorance knows no bounds. I suppose if an Obama supporter did this, you'd roll your eyes- your "trust fund" comment upthread would indicate that's true.

you've got there TIPpy. This is a discussion about the morality of one of the candidates; there are regularly discussions about Obama's morality, so I think this is easily fair game.

I agree with pm; Bill knows good and well that any money they have is going to pay for past campaign failures  and that his wife is done anyway, so he should've given the money back. 2-3 weeks from now the campaign will be over and the kid won't have Hillary or a bike.

I was gonna let that pass, but it's one of my biggest pet peeves...this notion about Americans speaking German.

It totally disregards any understanding of WWII. It's nothing more than a baseless threat.

Germany couldn't even successfully invade Great Britain across a tiny channel and yet people throw around the notion that they would be able to cross the Atlantic Ocean and be successful.

Well maybe you should write to your Congressperson to get the voting age changed to when real life sets in.

Of course, this would probably be terrible for Democrats in the long term,  but good for Clinton in the short-term so go ahead!

if this were a while back, the mark penn comments would be snarky and rather annoying. But this is now the reality of the situation, and when I made that comment upthread, i for one was not being snarky.

Clearly, Clinton's campaign is nearing its end. Her campaign is $20 million in debt, and we know a significant chuck of that is owed to Penn. I really do think its sad that the kid believes his money will be helping elect hillary, when in reality is is most likely to go to paying off the debt.

This isn't about belittling the kid. What he did was great. I just think a lot of people, i.e. the Clinton campaign, his parents, etc., gave him the wrong impression that the money would be used for her to fight on and I just don't believe that's true.

anything about reverse racism.  Think before you type.

If Mark penn didnt charge millions and actually had the same spirit of volunteerism and charged a less than obscene rate, maybe kids like this wont have to donate their bike money to rich people.

Dude, I'm not whining.

It's a plant and a fairly obvious one.

That's my opinion on the article.