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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's simple: When you have had unlimited opportunity and wield immense power
refrain from trying to sound like a regular middle class person who struggles to put your kid through college and meet financial obligations.
"We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt," Clinton replied. "We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea's education. You know, it was not easy."
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Something smells.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)I may not like Hillary but she and her husband have worked their asses off, much of their time in public service.
They've also had to hire a phalanx of lawyers back then which must have cost a fortune.
cali
(114,904 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Response to KittyWampus (Reply #9)
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KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)insulting to hear her say she was broke. I'll vote for her if I have to, but damn, I hope she gets this shit out of her system early.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)You would think that Hillary at this point would be too shrewd to make that kind of avoidable gaffe.
cali
(114,904 posts)is astounding.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)yummy, kitty.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)American Rising, the pro-Republican opposition research shop that along with the Republican National Committee, takes the lead in criticizing Clinton, was quick to ping her over her comments aired Monday morning by ABC, saying they "reveal someone who is extremely out-of-touch with financial reality facing Americans."
On their website, America Rising said that the two homes the Clintons purchased after leaving the White House (Chappaqua, New York and Washington DC) combined cost around $4.5 million.
The Clintons departed the White House in debt, thanks to enormous legal fees. By the end of 2000, the Clintons carried debt totaling somewhere between $2.28 million to $10.6 million.
cali
(114,904 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)as my quote in last post clearly shows.
Congratulations.
kentuck
(111,095 posts)...and in no time at all, are millionaires. The Clintons were not well off when Bill was Governor. It only paid about $35,000 per year salary. So they did not have very much at all when they came to Washington. What are they worth now? $50 million??
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Not difficult to achieve when you can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech.
pa28
(6,145 posts)They had Bill's pension and her income as a Senator at the very least. That's not struggle as ordinary Americans know it so, yeah, I wish she would spare us any future tales of woe.