Posted on 06/24/2014 7:53:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had a rough time of it ever since she asserted that both she and her husband were “dead broke” and “struggled” after leaving the White House in 2001. “A few weeks before they left the White House, the Clintons were able to muster a cash down payment of $855,000 and secure a $1.995 million mortgage,” Politifact observed. “This hardly fits the common meaning of ‘dead broke.’”
Clinton might have taken the public backlash over this minor gaffe in stride, but she didn’t. Speaking with The Guardian over the weekend, Clinton again reasserted her credentials on the issue of income inequality. “They don’t see me as part of the problem,” she insisted of those concerned with the growing income gap in the United States. “Because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off, not to name names; and we’ve done it through dint of hard work.”
This statement, too, roiled even Clinton allies who were forced by pangs of conscience to note that the Clintons have been taking advantage of financial planning strategies that only the wealthiest Americans use to avoid paying their full freight (a tax burden they believe others should pay, by the way).
You could be forgiven for thinking the Clintons are thin-skinned because, speaking to Meet the Press host David Gregory recently, former President Bill Clinton came to his wife’s defense and asserted that it was factually accurate that his family was financially broken in the wake of his impeachment.
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“It is factually true that we were several million dollars in debt,” Clinton said. “Everybody no assumes that what happened in the intervening years was automatic. I’m shocked by what’s happened. I’m shocked that people still want me to come give talks.”
“She’s not out of touch,” Clinton added of his wife.
He would not go so far as to say criticism of his wife’s comments has been unfair, but he did say that the focus of the public debate should be on his wife’s favored policies and not her identity.
“I think I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th Century when I took office,” he offered, unsolicited. The former president closed by saying that the “real issue” facing presidential aspirants should be whether you are out of touch because you are rich, not simply your current net worth.
The instinct among Democratic politicians to one-up each other by inaccurately asserting a claim to poverty is an inexplicable one. They are sacrificing authenticity for the sake of appealing to the Democratic primary electorate. However, as demonstrated by a variety of the most successful politicians that party has ever produced, the Democratic electorate is apparently sincerely interested in just who the poorest in their ranks is.
And those are just off the top of my head!
The Clintons are pathological liars. They will lie, even when they do not have to (the White House Travel Office comes to mind.)
Mark
Yes, he went into office poor and left a multi-multi-millionaire. What does that tell you? Oh how I wish these two and their spawn would just go away. But we will never be rid of them till they shuffle off this mortal coil.
Bill Clinton: “I’m shocked that people still want me to come give talks.”
So am I, especially after seeing your grand jury deposition. How anyone could pay you money for your brazen lies is beyond me.
I'll drink to that.
The rats have gotten to the point where they truley believe thier own lies and are dumbfounded as to why you dont
I swear it required two moving vans to move the Clinton's belongings from the White House - yet the Clintons had only lived in a private residence for a tiny period in their married lives.
We know they stole $190,000 of items that were part of a 1993 U.S. Park Service White House renovation project.
According to the Washington Post, the Clintons began shipping furniture out of the White House a year before Clinton's term ended, which was questioned at the time by White House chief usher Gary Walters.
When the Clintons were confronted, White House counsel said the items were "personal gifts received by the Clintons prior to President Clinton assuming office." That was the second excuse. The first was that the furniture and other items had been acquired by the Clintons and their interior designer when in Little Rock. Yes, that was used as an excuse. The interior designer wouldn't return the Washington Post's calls.
However, government records show that was not the case, and more than one donor stated that an item was donated to the White House, not the Clintons.
Thanks!
It was grueling. GRUELING I say....
Old BJ had to give one extra speech in 2001 to pay for 4 yrs of Chelsea at Stanford.
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