In her 35 years of "public service" how in the heck did Hillary make the kind of money....

[Bread and Circus]

to spare $5,000,000 in cash to her campaign?

Who would have known working on Children's health social projects would be so lucrative?

[napi21]

1. Almost all of it a been made by Bill after he was Prez.

He makes tons of $$ making speeches!

[Big Blue Marble]

9. The headline is: Bill buys presidency for Hillary.

[polpilot]

26. Bill thinks it's over. He's already bought the cigars...

'Bill, gimme those damn cigars' HRC

[avaistheone1]

13. Look how much Obama has made in recent years...

including his 2 books, and Obama hasn't been doing it very long.

[displacedtexan]

2. Books.

Have you forgotten Bill's book deal and Hillary's book deal?

[IndieLeft]

3. Bill's Money....

they are married... what's your's is mine... what's mine is mine too...

[ElizabethDC]

4. That money is from the Clintons' book deals and Bill's speaking fees

I believe that they were actually in debt when they left the White House.

[HeraldSquare212]

8. So it's Dubai money? nt

[northzax]

5. books and Bill

they've collectively made a whole passel of money in the past 7 years, tens of millions in total, I would guess.

and, of course, she may well have gotten a bank loan guaranteed by future earnings (or real estate) to acquire the cash itself)

same way, of course that a community organizer/politician can buy a multi-million dollar house in Chicago.

[NJSecularist]

6. Ask Norman Hsu, Frank Giustra and Nursultan Nazarbayev.

They should know.

[rinsd]

7. The Clintons had a biz relationship with Hsu?

Or is that just a lie you told.

[TexasObserver]

10. They've made about a half million a month, on average,

... and have since Bill left office.

And that's not counting the perks, the freebies, and the money that gets funneled to the Library.

[tammywammy]

11. Well, she got an $8 million advance on Living History

Plus, Bill Clinton makes a ton from speaking.

[Adelante]

12. They have plenty of money

Mostly made by Bill since he left the presidency.

[hfojvt]

14. I love it when well paid people are called "public servants"

I made the same point about Biden. I figured that for his years in the Senate he had made $3 million. US Senators now make more than 95% of households thanks to generous pay raises that they give themselves. The Clintons are actually about as wealthy as Edwards, not that the M$M will spend much time telling you that.

[Muttocracy]

23. Biden's net worth less than $300,000

I don't know about Kucinich and Gravel but Joe is much less wealthy than the other candidates. No private jet for him.

Biden's wife (a community college professor) was in a car accident a while back - in her BMW - a 7 year old BMW. Compared to most lawyer-professor households, they're not that wealthy.

If I make $40,000 for 30 years, that's $1.2 million. Boy that sounds like a huge number. Does making a little under $40,000 make me really wealthy?

[hfojvt]

29. it makes you much wealthier than me

but only 1/3 as wealthy as Biden. Plus, something like 40% of US households make less than $40,000. And that's households, not individuals. In my first 13 years after graduating from college, I made a whopping $92,000. Lately though I have done better, up to $139,393 in the last 8 years. Take that over 30 years and it's something like $500,000.

I don't mean to pick on Biden, I just remember that an article claimed he was poor because he had spent so long in "public service". My point is that it was public service that paid pretty well, particularly lately. When I do public service it is more like what I just spent an hour updating the County party's website. I got paid nothing for that hour. Same for the two hours I spent working at last night's caucus. My public service doesn't even pay $5,000 a year, much less $165,000 a year.

[Muttocracy]

31. I guess I'm just sensitive about Biden

because he was my favorite candidate, and people would say snide things about him being wealthy from corporations giving him tons of money because he was in the Senate, when the opposite has been true. And he hasn't left the Senate to become a lobbyist and cash in on his experience. Compared to the Clintons' 35+ years, please don't pick on Biden for his wealth.

I realized I make more than entire household do in much of the country. On the other hand, my rent is more than a mortgage in many parts of the country, and I've made less working for nonprofits, government, and colleges than I would have in business (by choice and I'm happy with it). I'm also still paying off student loans and credit card debt from employment gaps, and don't feel wealthy for those reasons.

I'm not sure what people mean by "public service" I guess. It could mean government work, nonprofit work, any work that you're earning less than you could in order to do good? What you're describing sounds more like volunteer work to me - noble, but yeah, doesn't pay well.

[TheDonkey]

15. Her man is bankrolling this.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

20. Kerry's rich wife bankrolled his

[TheWraith]

22. Actually, both statements are untrue. Only the candidate's assets can be loaned to the campaign.

At least, that's what I'm told. That means the maximum self-loan for the Clinton camp is about $15M, of which they've already used $5M.

[Eric J in MN]

30. I wish that fortune had been spent to make Kerry president, but it wasn't.

Teresa could have moved some of her millions into a joint account for John Kerry to use for his presidential run. She didn't.

Update: Someone in another thread pointed out that Kerry loaned his campaign some money. I wish the family had truly spent their fortune on making him president, though.

[Bread and Circus]

28. Really? Is that very feminist?

[HeraldSquare212]

16. Bill's speeches = $31M from 2001 to 2005.

Here's a list of the speeches and amounts paid. It seems the dollar amounts got split up over days in many cases; I don't know why that would be the case.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2007/clinton-speeches/list/

[mondo joe]

17. She was an attorney, she made investments, and she and her husband have made book deals

and have earned speaking fees.

[niceypoo]

18. Next time, do 45 seconds worth of research

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022202189.html">Bill Clinton earned $31 million in speaking fees between 2001 and 2005.

[Bitwit1234]

19. Same way a person (the other candidate) was broke and 8 months later

buys a 1.5 million discounted house and pay over 100 thousand for a strip of land....gee it happens....Oh if you are the other candidate no body questions you...they only slam Hillary.

By the way Bill Clinton got a 8M advance for his memoirs.

[TheWraith]

21. $8 million dollar book advance, plus plenty of other business opportunities in the last 7 years.

Some people talk about Bill's net worth, but I'm told that only Hillary's assets can be loaned to the campaign.

[applegrove]

24. Her book sold very well.

[JSM]

25. Behind every great fortune ...

Yes, she has done well with her investments.  Remember the
$100,000 she made on a $1,000 investment through cattle future
contracts. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_controversy

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

27. I Can't Wait Till She Wins. My God Is Victory Gonna Be Sweet!

[Avalux]

32. Bill!! And he will fund her campaign through favors to buddies.

I love the smell of corporatism on the eve of the convention.

[Catherine Vincent]

33. She got it from her husband.

You remember big Bill don't you?

[AZBlue]

34. Book sales and speaking fees.

Mostly Bill but she's had books published too and had a bit of time where she could charge for speaking engagements.

[EffieBlack]

35. She was paid big money for her book - because her book had big sales

And her book deal was approved by the Senate Ethics Counsel.

No there there.