Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Embodiment of inequality

Jennifer Rubin writes in the Washington Post that at times the Clintons
simply can’t help themselves, as if they can no longer remember what is fabricated and what is not. Hillary Clinton imagined that she was “broke” when she left the White House; in fact, they had millions in book advances. Bill Clinton claims to have “taken almost no capital gains,” when, in fact, he took $400,000 between 2000 and 2006. Bill also insists “everything” was disclosed when, in fact, foreign donations were not broken out on the Clinton Foundation’s tax returns and we know about a number of speeches he failed to disclose.

Hillary may want to talk about inequality, but is there any better example of a couple who gorged at the trough of Wall Street and foreign autocrats, chose not to follow the rules, never could stop chasing more and more money and (in Hillary Clinton’s case) went to extraordinary lengths to destroy “personal” e-mails that might have pulled back the curtain on all that?

...So, no the race is not primarily about age but about corruption, and the Clintons’ embodiment of the very inequality they complain about...

...Hillary Clinton is hurting herself, making honesty and her foreign policy competence top issues. The Republicans who can convey honest devotion to public service, personal integrity and foreign policy mastery stand to do well.
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