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Hillary Clinton removes ‘dead broke’ from her repertoire
Market Watch ^ | June 10, 2014

Posted on 06/10/2014 7:29:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday tried to clear up the fallout from a comment she made about her family being “dead broke” after leaving the White House in 2001 – a remark that opened her up to charges of being out of touch with ordinary Americans.

“Let me just clarify that I fully appreciate how hard life is for so many Americans today,” the former secretary of state said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” She said she and husband Bill Clinton were “obviously blessed” but it was “just a reality what we faced when he got out of the White House meant that we just had to keep working really hard.” She said she recalled being about $12 million in debt. Watch here, at about 2:37:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: impeachment; lewinsky; pantsuit; thighs
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1 posted on 06/10/2014 7:29:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess she figured out she spewed some spontaneous BS lie equivalent to her being named for Edmund Hillary, or when she had to “duck for cover” in Bosnia-wherever.....

Sometimes, even your leeches don’t believe you.


2 posted on 06/10/2014 7:31:49 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Overthehillary does not know what hard work is....


3 posted on 06/10/2014 7:32:21 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“...just a reality what we faced when he got out of the White House meant that we just had to keep working really hard.”

Okay everyone, let's all have a pity party! 1... 2... 3...

C'mon...

...anybody?

[snerk!]

4 posted on 06/10/2014 7:32:50 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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What exactly does ‘dead-broke’ mean in today’s language?

When I grew up in the 1970s...it meant you didn’t have enough money to buy steaks.....so you ate mostly chicken. When I was in the Air Force...dead-broke meant you got only really cheap beer the weekend before pay-day. Today? When I say I’m dead broke...it means I don’t have enough loot to buy Yankees tickets, but I can go to Florida for two weeks and watch them on cable TV.


5 posted on 06/10/2014 7:32:52 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dead Brokeback


6 posted on 06/10/2014 7:32:52 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They had to fire one of their chauffeurs.

They sold their plane and had to buy into an executive plane-sharing pool.

They had to switch from jamon iberico to pancetta.

7 posted on 06/10/2014 7:33:18 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, Hillary may have been dead broke upon leaving the White House, but those in Benghazi are just plain dead!


8 posted on 06/10/2014 7:33:23 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
One (mental) picture is worth 1,000 denials. Ronald Reagan

9 posted on 06/10/2014 7:33:33 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“obviously blessed”

No PIAPS, being showered by Satan with power and wealth is not being “blessed”

10 posted on 06/10/2014 7:33:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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what we faced when he got out of the White House meant that we just had to keep working really hard

They didn't leave the White House either dead broke or having to work really hard -- except maybe working really hard at cashing in their IOUs from their wheeling and dealing.

11 posted on 06/10/2014 7:35:22 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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The mega-wealthy Hillary connivingly planned to campaign on "income inequality" .......running as a phony populist. Campaign strategists warned Hillary her "tone" is important.....(so she can better dupe the voters).

THANK YOU KELLY FILE Megyn ran a news clip of Hilly sing-songing "the cancer of inequality"....in a contrived sap-happy, chirpy voice, wearing a h-u-g-e phony grin.

Reminded me of the classic Willam Castle horror movie, "Mr Sardonicus," (whose face becomes frozen in a horrifying grin while robbing the coffin of his father's grave).

Hillary wears her perpetual 2016 game face.

12 posted on 06/10/2014 7:37:36 AM PDT by Liz
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Anyone remember the footage from the big post-departure rally at Andrews Air Force Base on inauguration day 2001? Where Bill went on about how “we aren’t going anywhere” ...?

It’s not like the Clintons actually wanted to escape the public limelight following their departure from the White House. Far from it ...


13 posted on 06/10/2014 7:37:55 AM PDT by tanknetter
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Let’s see: back in 1994 she was bragging about making $100,000 on a $1,000 investment in cattle futures thanks to some helpful investing tips. All Ms. Wizard had to do was start investing again, right?


14 posted on 06/10/2014 7:38:09 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Poke Salad Hillary”


15 posted on 06/10/2014 7:38:25 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To us, “dead broke” is not being able to afford hamburger at almost $5/lb., so we eat grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner. Ask some retirees you know how they are doing after scrimping and saving all their lives.


16 posted on 06/10/2014 7:39:27 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Nonsense. She’s just a victim of a right wing conspiracy. /sarc


17 posted on 06/10/2014 7:40:49 AM PDT by Starboard
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When Billy, the Boy From Hope, burst upon the political scene as a presidential candidate....he duped the voters and coached his Arkansas Mafia friends to say, “Money doesn’t mean anything to Bill Clinton"........

Now we hear he got a hundred million dollars while his wife controlled the State Dept checkbook......monies that were meant for Haiti (the place where the Clintons spent their honeymoon).

BETTER ADD THIS IN, TOO News reports say the State Department announced it has "no idea" what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors..... a special “management alert” warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at State has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years....under Hillary's watch.

Becoming president has a pretty good monetary return. That poor boy from Hope, Ark, made over $200,000,000.00 (that we know of) as a “public servant.”

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Lawyers Bill and Hillary have held no other jobs but “public service”---they didn't have a pot to *** in in Arkansas---didn't even own a home. But they are experts at gaming the "public service" system for themselves. The Clintons conniving has enriched them. They are now worth more than $100 million dollars.....and counting.

How did they make the money? In several ways.

(1) Bill's calculated moves w/ his presidential pen and official policies profited numerous cronies and entities.....who are now being hit up for donations to the /three Clinton tax-exempt "foundations.....and to enrich Hillary.

(2) Bill's pardon pen was useful in pardoning diverse voting blocs which got Hillary elected to the US Senate as a prelude to her presidential ambitions.

(3) The Clintons game the system 24/7....their only goal in politics is to control the money.

18 posted on 06/10/2014 7:40:59 AM PDT by Liz
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To: paddles

“I was born a poor, black child.”


19 posted on 06/10/2014 7:41:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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“just a reality what we faced when he got out of the White House meant that we just had to keep working really hard.”
In order to KEEP working really hard, one has to have worked really hard - and neither Hitlery nor her scumbag husband would know hard work if it jumped up and bit them in their fat, pinko-commie @sses.
20 posted on 06/10/2014 7:41:25 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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