Hillary Clinton reaps $450,000 fee for speech

[Nye Bevan]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/23996000-452/sneed-hillary-clinton-reaps-450000-fee-for-speech.html

Now, let's say she is elected president in 2016. She will probably make at least 20 or so big speeches per year. So that's about $9 million worth of speeches, plus all the other stuff she does, in exchange for the modest presidential salary of $400,000. Quite a bargain.

[LanternWaste]

1. And if she's not elected?

And if she's not elected?

I imagine the answer to the that holds the precise same relevance as the answer to the OP... no more and no less (but with big, juicy rationalizations coming soon!!!)

[MineralMan]

2. Good for her. It's not many people who can command that kind of fee

for a speech.

[hrmjustin]

3. ifshe is elected she will not get paid for speeches.

[One_Life_To_Give]

4. Guess that is more than 12 times what

the lowest paid worker their received.

[Igel]

13. Ssshhhhhh.

That's for them. We have a higher standard, which is to say, lower.

Depends on your frame of reference.

[hfojvt]

5. too bad, one could make the same "quite a bargain" argument

for Mitt Romney.

Let's see, she makes $450,000 for a single speech. At my current salary (which I have only had now for two years) it will take me 14 years to earn that much money.

Sure, she will represent people like me. Yeah, right.

[Democracyinkind]

6. It's a bargain for the corps that are thusly buying her support post 2016...

[warrant46]

7. Its future play for pay

[Democracyinkind]

8. Business as usual...

[DURHAM D]

9. Good for her and better for the foundation.

[Isoldeblue]

10. So? Can you or anyone honestly say,

that if you were offered half a mil or any large amount to speak, you wouldn't take it?

But if she becomes president, she will not get any fees for speaking, while president. No president can.
So your OP is false and has scant credibility.

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. [Cough] 1%

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. And, they generously paid that fee without expecting anything in return.

Right?