"Obama Gives $2,300 for Clinton Debt," today's New York Times reports:

Senator Barack Obama said on Thursday that he had written a personal check of $2,300 to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a good-will gesture intended to nudge his top donors to help ease Mrs. Clinton's campaign debt and help the two Democrats move beyond their rivalry to focus on the fall contest.

In a ballroom at the Mayflower Hotel here, Mrs. Clinton introduced Mr. Obama to about 300 of her leading contributors, most of whom raised at least $100,000 for her campaign. It was the first time the senators shared a stage since she suspended her candidacy and endorsed him nearly three weeks ago....

Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton arrived separately and entered through a side door of the hotel, a few blocks from the White House, bypassing a half-dozen demonstrators who held signs urging Mr. Obama to consider Mrs. Clinton as his running mate and to help retire her campaign debt.

Michelle Obama also donated $2,300 to the impoverished former candidate--a candidate who happens, it turns out, to have around $30-$34 million in the bank. Such is the strange nature of politics, where campaign debts inspire “disaster relief funds” for multimillionaire candidates--while other multimillionaires are recruited to pay them off.