Posted on 06/22/2014 10:56:05 AM PDT by kristinn
When Hillary Rodham Clinton said this month that she was once “dead broke,” it was during an interview in which she led ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer through her $5 million Washington home, appointed like an ambassador’s mansion. Mahogany antiques, vibrant paintings and Oriental rugs fill the rooms. French doors open onto an expertly manicured garden and a turquoise swimming pool, where Clinton recently posed for the cover of People magazine.
On her current book tour, the former secretary of state has traveled the country by private jet as she has for many of her speaking engagements since stepping down as secretary of state last year. Her fee is said to be upwards of $200,000 per speech; the exceptions tend to be black-tie charity galas, where she collects awards and catches up with friends such as designer Oscar de la Renta and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Such scenes reveal a potentially serious political problem for Clinton as she considers a 2016 presidential run: She and her husband are established members of the 1 percent, leading lives far removed from the millions of middle-class voters who swing elections.
Clinton has underscored the contrast with a series of stumbles in discussing her finances — the latest in an interview with Britain’s Guardian newspaper published Sunday, in which she compared herself with other multimillionaires. Unlike the “truly well off,” Clinton said, she and former president Bill Clinton “pay ordinary income tax” and have amassed their fortune “through dint of hard work.”
Some influential Democrats — including former advisers to President Obama — said in interviews last week they fear that Clinton’s personal wealth and rarefied, cloistered lifestyle could jeopardize the Democratic Party’s historic edge with the middle class that powered Obama’s wins.
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The irony must be totally lost on those guys.
Hilarious! Dems fear Imperialism and wealth? Since when? Considering their King Obama is both Imperialistic and mega-rich,,,this is just too funny!
Historic edge...middle class? Their constituents are the Trust Funded Class and the Welfare Parasite Class.
Gee, I remember when the Dems pretended to be the party of the blue collar workin’ stiff. Now they claim to represent the middle class?
Obama and the Clintons and the rest of the nomenklatura HATE the middle class and are doing everything they can to destroy it.
Imperial image? But, but, but, she reads the Bible and uses it to guide her actions...
Isn't that special?
There is a downside to being an elitist, limousine commie wannabe. The unwashed little people may be stupid but they’re not dumb.
Well it depends on what the meaning of ” Bible," is.
What Hillary actually reads and uses as a guide to her actions is the Book of Revelations.
It worked well for the Mittster. But in a world of double standards, why quibble?
The Hillary Clinton Fund for Broke Politicians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0XDomYmjqI
Post this on every Hillary thread!
Her Imperial Buttness, The Flying Buttress.
The Democrats won the last two presidential elections by running a candidate that people felt sorry for. They will keep doing this until it doesn’t work for them. People don’t feel sorry for Hillary.
I have a friend who always says “The republicans never did a thing for the workin’ man.” I never have been able to get him to explain to me exactly what any party is supposed to do for the “workin’ man”.
And did D.S. call her out? Let me guess...
> When Hillary Rodham Clinton said this month that she was once “dead broke,” it was during an interview in which she led ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer through her $5 million Washington home, appointed like an ambassador’s mansion. Mahogany antiques, vibrant paintings and Oriental rugs fill the rooms. French doors open onto an expertly manicured garden and a turquoise swimming pool, where Clinton recently posed for the cover of People magazine. On her current book tour, the former secretary of state has traveled the country by private jet as she has for many of her speaking engagements since stepping down as secretary of state last year. Her fee is said to be upwards of $200,000 per speech; the exceptions tend to be black-tie charity galas, where she collects awards and catches up with friends such as designer Oscar de la Renta and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
(I know....MEOW)
:’) I was just quoting it, or littering it around if you will. ;’)
LOL Great quote...
Michael Moore’s butler was talking to John Kerry’s up-stairs maids about what the Clintons personal chef said. And the gossip is this... the Clinton’s don’t pay their pool boy as much as the other families... very hush hush stuff... so maybe money is a little tight.
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