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Stress Over Family Finances Propelled Hillary Clinton Into Corporate World (NYT alert)
New York Times ^ | August 10, 2016 | AMY CHOZICK

Posted on 08/10/2016 7:46:16 AM PDT by reaganaut1

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Losing the governor’s race here in 1980 so shattered a young Bill Clinton that he couldn’t face his supporters, so he sent his wife around to thank campaign workers instead. He later gathered with close friends for dinner but quietly sulked, playing the country song “I Don’t Know Whether to Kill Myself or Go Bowling” on the jukebox.

But his wife had a more pressing concern: money. The ousted governor needed a job, the family needed a place to live, and moving out of the governor’s mansion meant losing the help they had as they raised their 9-month-old daughter, Chelsea.

The morning after the election, Hillary Clinton worked the phones from the mansion, calling wealthy friends and asking for help.

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Mr. Blair, the Clintons’ close friend, had made several million dollars in the commodities market, and urged Mrs. Clinton to begin trading, too. With an initial investment of just $1,000, she made nearly $100,000 trading cattle futures in a 10-month period, which helped pay for the down payment on the Midland Street home. But the move later haunted her when the investment became the subject of scrutiny in the early years of the Clinton presidency.

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Even though she reaped big rewards on the commodities market, the experience was unnerving. Shortly after Chelsea was born, Mrs. Clinton told her broker she wanted out. “I couldn’t take the stress,” she said at a campaign stop in June.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintoncrimefamily; crookedhillary; hillarynytsuperpac
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Even NYT commenters are calling BS on this story. For example, here is "Chris" from Missouri http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-money.html#permid=19446427 :

'"The Clintons had stretched their finances to afford the $112,000 home"

Not really. This was after she had turned a $1,000 "investment" into $100,000 by "investing" with the chief counsel of Tyson - the chicken folks - and Bill (as Arkansas Attorney General) deregulated the disposal of chicken waste. This puff-piece article fails to point out the "coincidence" of the change in waste disposal rules. NYT has been spouting propaganda for a long time now; does the editorial staff no longer believe in competent investigative journalism, or are they all in for propaganda?'

1 posted on 08/10/2016 7:46:16 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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If only that trash had stayed defeated.


2 posted on 08/10/2016 7:47:36 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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[But his wife had a more pressing concern: money.]

The opening teaser for the upcoming HILLARY CLINTON “American Greed” episode.


3 posted on 08/10/2016 7:48:30 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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Too bad the asshat didn’t commit suicide.


4 posted on 08/10/2016 7:49:50 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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Was it then that Hillary wanted to join the Marine Corps?


5 posted on 08/10/2016 7:50:30 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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Gosh.

What a great rags to riches to enslave your fellow Americans story.


6 posted on 08/10/2016 7:52:40 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Gosh, same thing happened in my world!

Mrs. Buckeye had to take a part-time waitress gig at Dennys after Democrats raised our taxes back in the 90’s.


7 posted on 08/10/2016 7:53:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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The Clintons have a long history of using their political power and positions to obtain lucrative payoffs to give favors to criminals, cronies and big corporations.

No one can identify any public good that the people of the state of Arkansas received from the Tyson chicken waste favor from Bill Clinton.

Instead, the Bill Clinton/Tyson Chicken deal created a huge public health disaster because chicken waste was dumped into rivers and waterways and empty fields.

8 posted on 08/10/2016 7:54:34 AM PDT by rdcbn ("There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alt)
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Unreal. This is going to be a long 90 days.


9 posted on 08/10/2016 7:57:24 AM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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Really?


10 posted on 08/10/2016 7:59:48 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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Both.


11 posted on 08/10/2016 8:01:21 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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NYT: Just go away. Get a real job.


12 posted on 08/10/2016 8:01:28 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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Robbing banks probably would have been more respectable.


13 posted on 08/10/2016 8:01:51 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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"Mrs. Clinton to begin trading, too. With an initial investment of just $1,000, she made nearly $100,000 trading cattle futures in a 10-month period"

This was a crooked bribery deal known as a commodities "straddle". All you need is a sugar daddy (the briber) and a crooked broker. Hillary gives the broker $1000 and the sugar daddy gives the broker $1000. The broker puts $1000 on one side of a cattle futures transaction and $1000 on the exact opposite side of the bet. He then allocates Hillary's $1000 to whichever side turned out to be the winning bet. You keep repeating as long as the sugar daddy is willing to subsidize your winnings and it's virtually impossible to get caught unless the broker spills the beans - which he won't do if he doesn't want to become another Arkanside.

14 posted on 08/10/2016 8:02:04 AM PDT by circlecity
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Hillary's New York Times SuperPAC weighs in.

Here are some REAL journalists, New York Times:


15 posted on 08/10/2016 8:03:19 AM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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THis reads like a piece by that Arkansaturd Gene Lyons. His nose is so far up the collective Clinton butt it’s hard to see how he can breathe, must less write syncophatic columns praising every single thing any Clinton has ever done.


16 posted on 08/10/2016 8:04:15 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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Any mention of her failing the D.C. bar?

Another PRAVDA piece from the NYT.

Without the internet, we’d be completely in the dark.


17 posted on 08/10/2016 8:09:27 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Really? Poor Hillary! And then the left the Whitehouse penniless.


18 posted on 08/10/2016 8:11:52 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutter)
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That’s what the Clintoons are all about. Money, money, money. Other people’s money.


19 posted on 08/10/2016 8:11:59 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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20 posted on 08/10/2016 8:19:35 AM PDT by 4Liberty (We SEE Trump tossed every contrived hurdle. Hillary given every absurd mulligan.THAT'S WHY-GO TRUMP!)
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