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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M
Follow the money. That telling phrase, which has come to summarize the Watergate scandal, has been a part of the lexicon since 1976. Its shorthand for political corruption: At what point do contributions become bribes, constituent services turn into quid pro quos and charities become slush funds?
Ronald Reagan was severely criticized in 1989 when, after he left office, he was paid $2 million for a couple of speeches in Japan. The founding fathers would have been stunned that an occupant of the highest office in this land turned it into bucks, sniffed a Columbia professor.
So what would Washington and Jefferson make of Hillary Rodham Clinton? Mandatory financial disclosures released this month show that, in just the two years from April 2013 to March 2015, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state collected $21,667,000 in speaking fees, not to mention the cool $5 mil she corralled as an advance for her 2014 flop book, Hard Choices.
Throw in the additional $26,630,000 her ex-president husband hoovered up in personal-appearance honoraria, and the nation can breathe a collective sigh of relief that the former first couple who, according to Hillary, were dead broke when they left the White House in 2001 with some of the furniture in tow can finally make ends meet.
http://nypost.com/2016/05/22/how-corporate-america-bought-hillary-clinton-for-21m/
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How corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M (Original Post)
tabasco
May 2016
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NewImproved Deal
(534 posts)2. From Goldwater Girl to Goldman Sachs Shill...
Meet the face of the "New" Democrats...
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Tarc
(10,476 posts)3. I know capitalism is anathema to Sanders' pseudo-"social democracy", fans, but...
Most of the country doesn't have a problem with people who make money.
Bernie in particular has been hammering the "OMG PAID SPEECHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" bit since Day One, and, 3 million votes + 270 pledged delegates later, he has lost a primary.
Someday the Sanders crew will just have to come to grips with the fact that most people do not care how much Clinton made from speech-giving.
cali
(114,904 posts)4. Bernie supporters using dog shit Murdoch or other wingnut sources
do him no favor.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)5. Perhaps the Clinton campaign could provide a list of approved news sources.