Does the Beltway think the Clintons are amnesiacs?

[annabanana]

Neither of them grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth. (Unlike a few potential candidates on the other side of the aisle). Does their current, relatively comfortable position mean that they do not remember being "regular people"?

The assumptions that are allowed to stand without examination are SO tiring...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. When they were 'regular people' being a 'regular person' was a heck of a lot different.

And, of course, it meant 'regular white person', since things sucked far worse for 'regular' black people when the Clintons were 'regular people'. (They still suck far worse for PoC than for whites, but at least the suckage gets a bit more attention from whites these days thanks mainly to social media.) But the lack of a 'silver spoon' doesn't mean they knew anything about the lives of people in poverty even then. Hillary went to Wellesley and Yale, hardly the schools of 'regular people', and was the daughter of the manager of a 'successful company'. She was upper middle class at least from birth, not 'working poor' as 'regular people' are.

Bill at least actually was a 'regular person', whose Dad was a traveling salesman who died early.

[tularetom]

2. "relatively comfortable"

Look, I'm "relatively comfortable". I have an annual retirement income that affords me all the necessities and a few luxuries and enough money in the bank to last the rest of my life and leave a bit to my kids.

A $55 million net worth is one hell of a lot more than relatively comfortable.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Whatever their past was, the Clintons seem to love power and weath, and the powerful and the wealthy

Any semblance of caring for the poor seems always to be a means to an end, that end being accumulating more power and wealth.

She used the office of the Secretary of State to advance the agenda of the US Chamber of Commerce, Chevron, Monsanto, Tata, et al.

They are all about the wealth and power.

And she is never going to be president.