Clinton Criticism of Wealth Leaves Us 1% Convinced

[Purveyor]

How difficult will it be to run a campaign on a platform of tackling wealth inequality when we have all just learned that she and her husband can pretty much just burp money?

May 18, 2015 11:30 AM EDT

By C. Thompson and Laurence Arnold

“Hillary Clinton sold her soul when they accepted that money.”

The speaker here is a Sahrawi Arab from the disputed territory of Western Sahara named Mohamed Lahwaimed, quoted in a Politico story from last Friday. While he’s referring to the $1 million (or more) in donations to the Clinton Foundation from a Moroccan mining company with ties to King Mohammed VI, he could be speaking as well to a lot of voters in the U.S. today.

Wonder if she’s listening.

“Let’s finally do something about the growing economic inequality that is tearing our country apart,” she said in 2007 during her campaign for the 2008 election, according to the New York Times. “The top 1 percent of our households held 22 percent of our nation’s wealth.” We’re not sure of the time frame to which she’s referring, but it doesn’t matter. We get it already.

How difficult will it be to run a campaign on a platform of tackling wealth inequality, which she is reprising for this run (probably because she has to), when we have all just learned that she and her husband can pretty much just burp money?

A haul of $30 million or so from talking to Rotarians in the past 16 months, revealed in a financial disclosure filed to the Federal Elections Commission on Friday, has got to be some weight around her neck now. As Jennifer Epstein and Richard Rubin reported over the weekend, that’s not even everything—notably, the almost $105 million Bill Clinton pulled down from 2001 to 2013.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-18/clinton-criticism-of-wealth-leaves-us-1-convinced

[Wellstone ruled]

1. OOP's,Bloomberg.com. Hummmmm!

Same theme coming from CNBC. You think maybe the trolls had a conference call earlier.

[leftofcool]

2. LOL!

It is as thought they all get together in some little back smokey room to decide what hit pieces they will do on Hillary that day.

[Purveyor]

5. The call was at 7:15am thank you... eom

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Aw Geez,missed it,wrong time zone.

Remember Old Limpballs mentioned the GOP morning Fax as to talking points.

[upaloopa]

3. Of course nothing the Roosevelts or Kenedeys

did was sincere because they had wealth too.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Money earned from a lifetime of collected wisdom shared with others, bad. Fleecing the middle

class with criminal deception and mortgage lies, etc., good.

Who takes political commentary by multi-billionaire owned Bloomberg as serious, especially when the topic is hand wringing over the comparative puny wealth of others?

The Clinton's have earned every penny they have made, a fraction of how much they have raised for folks less fortunate than themselves....can Bloomberg say that?

What next, that President Obama is "too rich" to be in touch? Who were the Romney's again??

This attack on hard earned, openly created self-created wealth is surely at the bottom of the barrel for RW attacks.

Compare to Huckster and Bush's and Romney's etc. accumulation of wealth, through profiting on the suffering of others.

[mgcgulfcoast]

7. Hillary never saw a dollar she didnt like

Lets face it, with few exceptions, and Hillary isnt one of them, politicians on both sides want to get as wealthy as possible on the taxpayer dime.