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Chronicles in the Trials and Tribulations of Hillary Clinton - Working Class Warrior(s) Speaking Fees

maxparrish

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Bernie, for some odd reason, is astounded that a champion of the blue collar hoi poli would be earning huge bucks in making speechs to Fortune 500 corporate board packs and upper management hives. Unaware that she and Bill were "dead broke" upon leaving the presidency, Bernie does not appreciate that the two of them pulled on their union suits, coveralls, and rolled up their long john sleeves to make exhaustively brilliant speech's to various economic elites.

How brilliant?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/

Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.

In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.
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Who would have thought rambling hot-air remunerations were so valuable to their business health and competitive advantage?
 
maxparrish said:
Bernie, for some odd reason, is astounded that a champion of the blue collar hoi poli would be earning huge bucks in making speechs to Fortune 500 corporate board packs and upper management hives. Unaware that she and Bill were "dead broke" upon leaving the presidency, Bernie does not appreciate that the two of them pulled on their union suits, coveralls, and rolled up their long john sleeves to make exhaustively brilliant speech's to various economic elites.

How brilliant?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/

Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.

In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.
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Who would have thought rambling hot-air remunerations were so valuable to their business health and competitive advantage?
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what's the problem?
 
Jesse Marvin Unruh (September 30, 1922 – August 4, 1987), also known as Big Daddy Unruh, was a prominent U.S. Democratic politician and the California State Treasurer.


On lobbyists – "If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money and then vote against them you've got no business being up here."
 
maxparrish, are you upset that the market has voluntarily paid the Clintons for their product?

Or do you think that nobody who commands such a market income is capable of governing the country effectively?

Should people who reach a certain threshold of wealth be banned from running for President?
 
So Max, if people paid you $200,000 per speech to give speeches, you wouldn't take it?
 
You can't take millions and claim to be untainted.

Once again Hillary Clinton is full of shit.
 
untermensche said:
You can't take millions and claim to be untainted.

Once again Hillary Clinton is full of shit.
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Most of those fees in the article are from Bill. Yes, she is tainted, but so is every congressman and every Republican.
 
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Derec said:
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The Clintons were worse off than 'dead broke'. They were in debt.

I think the huffing is puffing is not that Clinton mischaracterised her finances (she didn't). It's that the Clintons were not living the lifestyle of someone who was dead broke.

Their very high material standard of living was debt-fuelled, backed by their future earning potential.
 
Nice Squirrel said:
untermensche said:
You can't take millions and claim to be untainted.

Once again Hillary Clinton is full of shit.
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Most of those fees in the article are from Bill. Yes, she is tainted, but so is every congressman and every Republican.
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It's also hard to be the millionaire wife of a former President, a former Senator and SecState and claim to not be a part of the political establishment, yet she does

Remember around this time last year when everyone was groaning at the idea of a having, for the first time in US history, the same political families facing off? That the dynastic aspects of a Clinton/Bush race was, in some way, people felt on an intuitive level was simply bad? Both Bush and Clinton's campaigns seemed like sure things back then and the idea of it bothered me, not because I dislike Hillary Clinton, I reached out to her campaign to see when they were opening local offices because I work on elections and wanted the job, but it was more about a sense of inevitability to me.

Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked and I felt the Bern
 
Harry_Bosch said:
maxparrish said:
Bernie, for some odd reason, is astounded that a champion of the blue collar hoi poli would be earning huge bucks in making speechs to Fortune 500 corporate board packs and upper management hives. Unaware that she and Bill were "dead broke" upon leaving the presidency, Bernie does not appreciate that the two of them pulled on their union suits, coveralls, and rolled up their long john sleeves to make exhaustively brilliant speech's to various economic elites.

How brilliant?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/



Who would have thought rambling hot-air remunerations were so valuable to their business health and competitive advantage?
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what's the problem?
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'Speeches' is a plural, and doesn't need an apostrophe, but does need an 'e' before the 's'.

Two tries; three possibilities; zero hits.

That's a problem.
 
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