Fringe website questions Clinton's speaking fees

[ben_meyers]

Bill's lucrative speaking engagements.

It would be interesting to know how the average New York voter would respond when told that during the past three years their Senator and her spouse personally received $2.1 million from such major banks as Goldman Sachs ($800,000), Lehman Bros. ($300, 000), Citigroup ($425,000) and Deutsche Bank ($300,000).

The money -- honoraria payments to former President Clinton -- demonstrate that the conflicts between Bill Clinton's multi-million dollar financial entanglements and his wife's possible selection as Secretary of State are just as relevant in the case of the elected office Hillary Clinton currently holds, raising to front and center the same glaring conflicts of interest that have gone largely overlooked during Hillary's eight years in the Senate.

Sources close to the Clintons sought to justify the ex-president's speaking fees by noting that wealthy spouses of other Senators, including the wives of John Kerry of Massachusetts and John McCain of Arizona, have multi-million dollar fortunes, often invested in the stocks of companies that stand to gain or lose as a result of tax and regulatory decisions made by Congress.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/20/bills-speaking-fees-creat_n_145385.html?page=2&show_comment_id=18189671#comment_18189671

[Occam Bandage]

1. The Clenis has wormed its way into the brains of the left fringe, just as it did

with the right fringe. All hail and all fear the Almighty Appendage.

[bunnies]

3. Is it noodley? Is it the FCM?

:rofl: Graphic needed.

[Ozma]

2. I doubt we will ever see the day when someone ascends to

the President's Cabinet who formerly lived on a public schoolteacher's salary previous to the appointment.

But I'd love to see it.

[Captain Hilts]

6. Or didn't go to an Ivy League school. nt

[No Elephants]

4. Congress is regulating Heinz Catsup? Okay, now I'm really mad! Talk about series!!!111!!

[Captain Hilts]

5. Sen. Clinton has reported Pres. Clinton's speaking receipts every year in detail. nt

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. It was the Clenis I tell you!