"Hillary took me through hell"

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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/hillary-clinton-stumbles-from-dead-broke-to-not-truly-well-off/
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    Yes, the Clintons are filthy rich now, no doubt. But why is it so difficult to believe they had debt when leaving the white house? Presidential salaries make you upper class, but not rich. What is it, like $400k per year? The president of the company i work for makes around half that and is upper middle class at best.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    The minute they left the WH they bought a house for over $1M in NY so that she could run for Senate. She can cry me a river on how poor they were.
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    And for the record, i think it can be stated with pretty much certainty that all politicians at that level are out of touch with the common man/woman. No question in my mind. Which just emphasizes my earlier comment that politics will never change for the better until it is no longer exclusive to the super rich.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    I'd agree with that.
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    unsung said:

    The minute they left the WH they bought a house for over $1M in NY so that she could run for Senate. She can cry me a river on how poor they were.

    Yikes. Obviously, poor is the wrong term. But to put it in perspective, friends of mine who are lawyers bought their house in suburban Vancouver for $1 million a few years back. And they live in a fairly modest house. I would imagine house prices in NY would be about 5 times the prices in Van. And if they indeed had $12 million in debt, sure, they ate, but that just meant they were in the red millions of dollars. Poor to me is a lot different than poor to someone in Africa. Its all relative.

    Again, not defending her. That is a terrible choice of words to use, especially in this economy.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    edited June 2014
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    Well, this is the house that the "dead broke" Clinton's paid $1.7M in 1999 for when she wanted to run for Senate. Doesn't look fairly modest to me, looks like a damn dream home. They bought it only to meet the requirement of living in the state prior to election day.

    I don't know about any of you but that seems pretty well off to me. Heck I am paid pretty well, I am not well off like they are, but I feel pretty secure. She is simply oblivious.
  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    how did this tread turn from Hilary being a "cold hearted" lawyer to talking about bring rich?
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    They capitalized very quickly on their names after they left the WH ($250K for speaking engagements will help just about any financial issue), but when they left the WH they did have some slight financial problems. And at no point did she try to compare herself to truly impoverished people.
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    BinFrog said:

    They capitalized very quickly on their names after they left the WH ($250K for speaking engagements will help just about any financial issue), but when they left the WH they did have some slight financial problems. And at no point did she try to compare herself to truly impoverished people.

    This is the point I was trying to get across.

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  • unsung
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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-democrats-fear-clintons-wealth-and-imperial-image-could-be-damaging-in-2016/2014/06/22/526746e6-f7eb-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html?hpid=z2  

    Harpootlian, who backed Obama over Clinton in 2008 and is a longtime ally of Vice President Biden, added: “She’s been living 30, going on 40 years with somebody bringing your coffee to you every morning. Is it more ‘Downton Abbey’ than it is America?”

    Multiple Obama campaign advisers — who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to avoid alienating the Clintons — said they fear Clinton’s financial status could hurt her as it did Republican nominee Mitt Romney, whom Obama portrayed in 2012 as an out-of-touch plutocrat at a time of economic uncertainty.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    She only has one guest house? And she doesn't even have a tennis court. Talk about living on the wrong side of the tracks.
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