Why shouldn't she get hers? I'm all for anyone getting her do-re-mi. At least she's being paid as much as her male peers. That's good!

She should have said what you just said.

Understand - we women - we always have to apologize when we make bank. That's all she's doing. The greater question -

Why was it even a topic of discussion? Why is anyone out there asking about it?

No one ever picks on Sister Sarah Alaskastan . . . and she was in the General Election in 2008 and a former Governor. Why does she always get a free pass and HRC doesn't?

Not fair. Not cool. I've HRC's back on this one.

The difference is that this is the first time someone who benefits from these fees is running for office.

I'm voting for her if she is the nominee so I don't care. Let's just be careful to not punch our own candidates in the nose and give the IndieTeaPublicans any opening to do it to her. That goes for ANY candidate on the left.

Sarah Palin is a celebrity sideshow, while Hillary is likely to be the next president.

I agree that she deserves everything she has worked for, but scrutiny of her finances is justified.

That too is my view for people who hate that athletes make too much money. You don't like it, don't support it.

It's not a donation but a payment for a service.

I'd be curious to know what types of things they say in these paid for speeches.

Hillary Clinton is an American Democratic Politician, with a net worth of $21.5 million.

Bill Clinton net worth: Bill Clinton is an American politician who has a net worth of $80 million

Chelsea Clinton is the daughter of former President of the United States Bill Clinton and United States Secretary of State Hiliary Rodham Clinton and has a net worth of $15 million. Chelsea Clinton earned her net worth through her career at the consulting firm of McKinsey & Company, as well as Avenue Capital Group

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/dl/bill-hillary-clinton-net-worth/

No wonder the 1% wants to protect their kid's privileges.

And she made it during the recession.

that were introduced during bill's watch.

aw, poor family!
makes me really angry, it does.
what the hell, what the hell is Hillary thinking, pining for sympathy becase they were 'so poor'. That is so disrespectful to every overworked hard working family who struggle to get by -- disrespectful and disgusting.

She should just shut the hell up, it's obvious she is not a reality based thinker. Go away, Clintons. Just go the fuck away.

'It depends on how you define alone'

… ... It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is.

It depends on how you define bullshit.

My first reaction to the OP was . aaawwwhhh, poor little Hillary..

Now it's like... I don't know.. shit fuck me.. .

Poor little Bubbha, had to pay some bills, had to buy some houses.. was that houseS as in plural??
well, looks like he could have borrow a few bucks from his daughter..

she did indeed say houseS, plural. That caught my ear as soon as I heard it. I don't doubt that, for rich people, they struggled a bit but they had to know that a former president would make tons of money and all it would take would be a bit of time. The whole statement struck me as unbelievably tone deaf. Their 'struggle' is NOTHING like our 'struggle'.

My house is worth about half of what it was in 2007. I'm not complaining, it was, for a while, worth a lot less than that.

As long as it is money, it doesn't matter where it comes from! Lots of Dems are switching over to that train of thought lately. Money money money, it's a gas.

Very nice insight into the mind of a possible President.

Bullshit meter goes off because when she did the Sachs for $$$s, the Clinton's were multimillionaires. Anywhere from 50 to 100 million - and that may only be Bill's number.

So I call bullshit. Poor multimillionaire Clintons need Sachs money so bad, they need it, but for what - what is the deal?

She should be ashamed to talk like she was some minimum wage mom with 3 kids and same amount of jobs. That's disgusting.

I can think of probably 300 million other Americans who have faced a lot more 'hard choices' in their lives than Hillary.

'Hard choices' are things like 'Do I buy medicine or food? Do I pay the phone bill or get my tooth fixed?'

they all do it. it's all quite disgusting, but they all do it.

and worked soooooooooooooo hard and so now deserves MILLIONS?

fuck them. They've lost their fucking minds if they are messaging this shit this way.

they find it amusing that democrats have to apologize for making money.

Yes, that is Very Republican minded and many feel that the Clintons are just that - Republicans in Dems clothing.

Blatant mockery of the words 'hard working' and 'deserving'. I want to puke.

as do many top ceos. i work hard, but i might go up to 90 hours a week too if i were getting paid that much!

thing is, "hard work" is a red herring. ordinary people can relate to the concept that the harder you work, the more you get paid, because that's one of the few levers they can see in action. if i get paid hourly, more work means more pay. or maybe it means a puny raise or bonus at year end. but at least they can relate.

but that's not really where the money comes from. the money comes from being in a position to extract great wealth undeservingly, thanks to particular political connections and influence -- things that really ought to belong to the people, or at least ought not be for sale. the hard work then is in making the most of this undeserving situation. cashing in on that influence while you still have it, before you become irrelevant.

ceos use this canard all the time. sure, they work hard, but at the end of the day, they might make millions upon millions simply for being in charge and having stock options at a time when fed policy or some other external force worked greatly in their favor.

Teddy Kennedy was rich, and he was a terrific Democrat. George Soros is another who actually did make his own fortune, rather than inherit, as the Kennedy's have.

The larger point is people raise the question of the Clinton's multimillionaire status within the context of a discussion about her possible presidential aspirations, and can she empathize with - as others here have put it - making the REAL hard choices between "medicine, or food?" "Rent, or the car insurance payment?"

Given that her husband's terms were hallmarked with debates about, for example, adjusting the COLA formula (and one example I remember well from that time was it was okay to take out the price of steak because people would simply substitute hamburger), and in light of their incredible growing material wealth, I don't think either one of them has learned ANYTHING about the massive wealth inequality going on the US.

Ann Romney.

But if she's going to collect several hundred thousand from Goldman Sachs, and then try to claim to be a progressive candidate... then I'm gonna call bullshit. What's next? "Compassionate Corporatism"?

HouseS? Came out of the white house dead broke\in debt? I know that when people are locked away in their own reality, their experience feels "normal." But, does a politically aware person thinking of running for president really want to admit to not knowing the price of a loaf of bread?

Yes, they had to live in multiple places. Saying that you had to buy houses doesn't elicit much sympathy. They bought their home in upstate New York, President Clinton had his office in New York city, and Hillary was working in D.C. Now whether houses means 2 or 3, I don't know. They did have income. Bill Clinton was getting his pension from his 8 years as president ($200,000 a year), Hillary Clinton was a sitting Senator ($175,000 a year).

After President Truman retired from office in 1952, he was left with an income consisting of basically just a U.S. Army pension, reported to have been only $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an "allowance" and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year. When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the president, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."

We now see that other past presidents, have found a new level of success in cashing in on the presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Obviously, political offices are now for sale.

Good old Harry Truman could have been correct when he observed, "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians."
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/truman/truman.asp#hMY5V7ilWXlFM8fU.99

. . . what's the standard amount of money folks think the Clintons are entitled to earn?

This kind of stuff is for the brain dead . . . brain cells popping just clicking on this thread

It is about the disjointed sense of reality of the uber rich (of which the Clintons are a part of).

Legal bills etc. I think that is what she's getting at. They owed so much and were further in debt than any regular person could imagine. Glad they got out of it

Not just the Clintons but their staff all had gigantic legal bills as well that they helped them pay off. Larry Klayman is still around trying to get our current President impeached and some crazy congress critters are working like crazy to make that happen.

I am embarrassed to see some of the posts on DU.

Not to be cynical, but don't expect any of these folks to be advocating for a wealth tax anytime soon.