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In reply to the discussion: Hillary and Bernie are both holding events in Portland this week. [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)31. HRC's host: "trust fund baby born w/ platinum spoon in mouth."
HRC slumming it in $1.7 Mil.home of Philips/Andover, Harvard grad.
Same old, same old - Hillary hangin' with her peeps, the very rich, the one percent. As F. Scott Fitzgerald accurately observed:
Now granted HRC & Bill weren't born very rich, but have we ever seen any political pair pursue the life style of the rich and famous with more dedication and determination than the Clintons?"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them. Unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different."
Read more at http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34538/#pbK32mF9SFxqOOV8.99
http://politicalpartytime.org/party/39929/Where
Home of Win McCormack and Carol Butler - 11878 SW Riverwood Road, Portland
Meet HRC's host: Win McCormack
McCormack is the author of: You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values. Therein he documented, among other shortcomings, 22 examples of adultery by Republican politicians and activists. He described these acts as "overwhelming deviance from professed moral standards". Ironic that Win trashes Republican sex offenders, when McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/win-mccormack/introduction-to-emyou-don_b_117106.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_McCormack
I googled to see if Bill Clinton had reviewed or recommended this book, but apparently he hasn't. Hope Win has the good taste to put his extra copies of the book out of sight before HRC arrives.
And if anyone should have good taste and good manners it should be Win, who was born to great wealth and prepped at Phillips Academy Andover and got his BA at Harvard. Are y'all familiar w/ Phillips Exeter? Founded during the American Revolutionary War. Perhaps you've seen references to it. The school is often mentioned in books and movies and television shows such as the following:
In Chapter 17 of The Catcher in the Rye, Sally Hayes introduces Holden to a boy who attended Andover. "You'd have thought they'd taken baths in the same bathtub or something when they were little kids. Old buddyroos. It was nauseating. The funny part was, they probably met each other just once, at some phony party. Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us. His name was George somethingI don't even rememberand he went to Andover. Big, big deal."
In the John Guare play Six Degrees of Separation, one of the characters laments that his parents could not afford to send him to Andover or Exeter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise has several characters who attended Andover.
In Scent of a Woman, Charles Simms tries to start an argument with the irascible Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade by saying that "... I believe President Bush went to Andover."
In A Beautiful Mind, John Nash's imaginary Princeton roommate characterizes him as a "poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Academy
An Amazon review: McCormack as hypocrite
By Kip Dellinger "Kip"on August 25, 2008
Format: Paperback
As the publisher's review says, McCormack's complaint taken realistically seems to be of a problem endemic to American society rather than Republicans or their politicians. In fact, it's almost laughable when one thinks about FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Gary Hart and on and on.
But, readers, do not fear for Win McCormack. He is an heir (a principal one) to the McCormack family wealth - the McCormack brothers that founded Illinois Tool Co. (used to be Illinois Tool & Die Works) and Northern Trust (one of America's oldest and most pretigious "big" banks).
Like too many trust fund babies born with the silver spoon (in this case Platinum) in their mouths, and taken care of for their entire lives by trust distributions, McCormack believes that he is entitled to tell the rest of the world how to live. A bit of digging around into who he is and what he came from, will reveal enough hypocrisy on his part to discredit his Republicans as the country's only bad guys.
http://www.amazon.com/You-Dont-Know-Me-Republican/product-reviews/0979419867/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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it's too bad that David Cobb is speaking for Move to Amend at the same time...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#5
I can't wait until after this happens and we can compare crowd diversities. nm
rhett o rick
Aug 2015
#6
I'd like to have a conversation with Hillary. Sadly, I don't have an extra $2700 right now.
pa28
Aug 2015
#10
Me too. Don't think I'll celebrate becoming unemployed this Friday spending $2.7k...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#13
I think we'd all like to CELEBRATE that others with money are the only ones...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#17
And is your issue the price of the event, or the notion that Clinton would attend a fundraiser?
brooklynite
Aug 2015
#12
Hmm.... I wonder how many people spending that kind of money work for Wall Street?
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#19
Oh fudgies. That's the day Buffy and I are having the toilet paper monogrammed. nt
Buns_of_Fire
Aug 2015
#28
Oh, that's the absolute pits. I'm having my Topsiders re-strung that day.
Arugula Latte
Aug 2015
#64
He also donated 50k to John Kitzhaber. The one who had to resign over corruption allegations.
pa28
Aug 2015
#35
Too bad the DNC doesn't use the oppurtunity for a Debate, I wonder if they'd Both be for that ?
orpupilofnature57
Aug 2015
#51
If you've read my posts, it was rhetorical, but YES YES YES I have and do and will, I'm a Volunteer
orpupilofnature57
Aug 2015
#59