Obama Offers Bribe to Get Hillary Out of the Race

Hillary Clinton's campaign is somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million in debt. She has the money to personally pay it off, but wouldn't it be nice if some generous young man stepped up and helped pay the debt?

Sen. Barack Obama said that "he would not rule out the possibility" of helping Sen. Hillary Clinton "retire her campaign debt to bring her into the fold and unify Democrats. But he said no discussions have taken place yet," the New York Times reports.

Said Obama: "Obviously, I'd want to have a broad-ranging discussion with Senator Clinton about how I could make her feel good about the process and have her on the team moving forward."

Let me translate that:

"Hillary, if you get out of the race now, I'll kick in some bucks from my huge warchest to pay off your debt and make you an indentured servant of my campaign. If you keep going, you can forget it."