This week's out of touch politician award goes to...

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 August 2014 in A Moving Train
A multiple time winner.


http://m.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/high-fashion-expense-hillary-travel
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  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Interesting read...Throw Joe Hockey in This week as well.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    unreal
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
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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 August 2014
    And on the other end of the spectrum, her likely opponent...

    He probably performs a free surgery for each speech she does.

    http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/16/Rand-Paul-Ventures-To-Guatemala-To-Conduct-Charity-Eye-Surgeries-For-Needy&ei=5PPwU9SNJ-uOsweR9YCABg&wsc=yh
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,802
    so lets use charitable work to further political career. How altruistic of him.
    Whatever its worth, this cheapens what he is doing. Think I had more respect for Romney on this stuff and the fact religious belief was held to be private.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    "She usually requires those who pay her six-figure fees for speeches to also provide a private jet for transportation — only a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 or larger will do."

    Surely this jet is a groundbreaking one-of-a-kind hybrid or 100% electric engine....right?


    http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/22731-hillary-clinton-wants-mass-movement-on-climate-change

    "Hillary Rodham Clinton says young people understand the significant threat of climate change and that she hopes there will be a mass movement that demands political change."
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,605
    Hillary's uncontested march to the nomination continues to increase the likelihood of a Republican victory in 2016.
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    mickeyrat said:

    so lets use charitable work to further political career. How altruistic of him.
    Whatever its worth, this cheapens what he is doing. Think I had more respect for Romney on this stuff and the fact religious belief was held to be private.

    You are going to use his charitable work against him? Really?
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,802
    edited August 2014
    bootlegger10 said:

    mickeyrat said:

    so lets use charitable work to further political career. How altruistic of him.
    Whatever its worth, this cheapens what he is doing. Think I had more respect for Romney on this stuff and the fact religious belief was held to be private.

    You are going to use his charitable work against him? Really?
    I think its a douchebag move to publicize what exactly he is doing. It can be enough to mention he does charitable work and leave it at that.

    What I would use to determine whether to vote for or against would be the changing stances and attempts at scrubbing his history on stances.

    Have the fucking balls to own your shit or stay home.
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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    Wanting to learn more about all this I did some on-line researching and am amazed at how much press is being given already to the 2016 presidential elections. I say, screw that man, I want to focus on 2020 because my motto is "2020, Better vision for the future". ;-)

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    edited August 2014
    mickeyrat said:

    bootlegger10 said:

    mickeyrat said:

    so lets use charitable work to further political career. How altruistic of him.
    Whatever its worth, this cheapens what he is doing. Think I had more respect for Romney on this stuff and the fact religious belief was held to be private.

    You are going to use his charitable work against him? Really?
    I think its a douchebag move to publicize what exactly he is doing. It can be enough to mention he does charitable work and leave it at that.

    What I would use to determine whether to vote for or against would be the changing stances and attempts at scrubbing his history on stances.

    Have the fucking balls to own your shit or stay home.
    The guy is running for office. Shaking hands, kissing babies, photo-ops are what they are required to do. Of all things politicians do you shouldn't hold publicizing charity work against them as a flaw. Pearl Jam publicly endorses their own charity work to help spur on its fans to be charitable (so it isn't all bad).

    I just think it is a little ridiculous to hold Rand Paul's charity work against him (that just means you hate the guy no matter what he does and is a little like the attitude in Congress at the moment). I can understand if you disagree with him politically.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,802
    bootlegger10 said:

    mickeyrat said:

    bootlegger10 said:

    mickeyrat said:

    so lets use charitable work to further political career. How altruistic of him.
    Whatever its worth, this cheapens what he is doing. Think I had more respect for Romney on this stuff and the fact religious belief was held to be private.

    You are going to use his charitable work against him? Really?
    I think its a douchebag move to publicize what exactly he is doing. It can be enough to mention he does charitable work and leave it at that.

    What I would use to determine whether to vote for or against would be the changing stances and attempts at scrubbing his history on stances.

    Have the fucking balls to own your shit or stay home.
    The guy is running for office. Shaking hands, kissing babies, photo-ops are what they are required to do. Of all things politicians do you shouldn't hold publicizing charity work against them as a flaw. Pearl Jam publicly endorses their own charity work to help spur on its fans to be charitable (so it isn't all bad).

    I just think it is a little ridiculous to hold Rand Paul's charity work against him (that just means you hate the guy no matter what he does and is a little like the attitude in Congress at the moment). I can understand if you disagree with him politically.
    quite the contrary, I think its a great thing he is using his training to help people. Nor do I hold it against him. In my opinion , since it has been released that that is what he is doing, in my eyes it cheapens the act. So really it isnt charity, its look what I am doing to help the poor in another country, aint I great?

    Meanwhile, there are plenty of kids from that same country sitting in detention centers under what some have described as deplorable conditions and I dont recall him coming to their aid. So it comes across as somewhat hypocritical of him.
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  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    Breitbart and the Review Journal....
  • 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
    Somehow I know that if Rand Paul were a Dem simply by changing the R to a D he'd be well loved here.

    He fights for individual rights probably more than anyone else, from either party.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    he fights for his own image...just like the rest of them!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • 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 October 2014
    She wins again!

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/hillary-clintons-225k-unlv-speech-fee-sparks-uproar/

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/14/hillary-clinton-to-cash-in-on-225k-vegas-speech/

    Hillary Clinton called for businesses to collaborate with universities to make higher education more affordable in a $225,000 speech Monday night at the annual University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation dinner.

    "Higher education shouldn’t be a privilege for those able to afford it," Clinton told a crowd of approximately 900 people. "It should be an opportunity widely available for anybody with the talent, determination and ambition."

    No, seriously, this stuff can't write itself any better.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,802
    So it takes 3 1/2 months to get this award? First article is from 6-27-14.
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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    edited October 2014
    So? She's a commodity and people pay her. Isn't this the free market that we hold so dear? You know no minimum or maximum wages. :D

    On speaking charges, celebrity always gets first class or better transportation and always best hotel room. Have seen many of these contracts.
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,605
    I wonder if losing the 2016 presidential race will increase or decrease her speaking fee?
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  • CM189191
    CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    ...you guys are funny...

    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/mitt-romney-speaking-fees-newt-gingrich
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,802
    unsung said:

    A multiple time winner.


    http://m.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/high-fashion-expense-hillary-travel

    You know, I wonder just how much was raised for the UNLV fundraiser she was paid to speak at.


    By the way, you've bestowed this "award" to her twice FOR THE SAME EVENT.
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