What's puzzling me is the nature of her game

[DaveT]

I cannot figure out what anybody could ever say that is worth $225,000, more than four times the median income for a whole year.

Of all the unsavory things this topic says about Hillary R. Clinton, the worst it seems to me was her blase incredulity about anybody seeing anything wrong with it. She said that all the other former Secretaries of State do it, too.


Making that kind of money for blowing hot air is a privilege that comes from working for us all in the Government. It is beyond her imagination -- and evidently the imaginations of her supporters -- that there is something seriously wrong with cashing in on public service like that.

It should be illegal. And it probably will be illegal a very few years from now. Her serene indifference to what it says about her and about our corrupt political system should let everybody know what kind of person she has become.

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. Plus she is NOT like any other former SOS

-- ex-First Lady
-- member of the Clinton Foundation (with global economic ties)

She has connections like no other SOS has ever had, and the blending of governmental information (that perhaps should not be shared?!) and personal is what is at issue.

[DaveT]

2. I agree with what you are saying,

but, even if Colin Powell or someday John Kerry makes a speech that says nothing but rah-rah USA for 40 minutes, without betraying anything of any kind -- I still think it should be illegal to cash in like that. It is inherently corrupting as the amount of money you can fetch on that circuit is a direct function of how much the people signing the checks like what you did in government. It is ex post facto bribery.

And my big beef with Hillary is that she can't even imagine why a concerned American citizen might object to such bribery.

[wilsonbooks]

3. God bless Harry Truman

After President Truman retired from office in 1952, he was left with an income consisting of basically just a U.S. Army pension, reported to have been only $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an "allowance" and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year. When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the president, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."

[dorkzilla]

7. Wow

Sounds like someone else we know and love.

[wilsonbooks]

8. Harry was a lot like Bernie.

Highly recommend this book

http://www.amazon.com/Truman-David-McCullough/dp/0671869205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455034703&sr=8-1&keywords=truman+david+mccullough

[Old Codger]

4. ???

It should be illegal. And it probably will be illegal a very few years from now. Her serene indifference to what it says about her and about our corrupt political system should let everybody know what kind of person she has become.

Has become? Not true, she has always been this person, nothing new here just the scale.

[DaveT]

5. I never had a favorable view of her

going all the way back to her miserable turn on the national stage pushing health care reform in 1993.

Nobody was offering her a quarter of mill to yap in those days, so you are probably right that she would have taken it then if given the opportunity.

Even so, this obliviousness to her own behavior seems to be worse than I ever remember out of her. Maybe she was always like this. Either way, what she is doing now disqualifies her from public trust.

[Old Codger]

6. Her behavior

The only real difference I see is she has more of a "center" stage platform now, she seems to think she is untouchable in some way and therefore can do as she pleases.. I have never had any liking for her from that same era and she has done nothing since then except feed at wall streets trough,become more and more aloof and above the hordes of peasants and an attitude of privilege.

[snagglepuss]

9. The reason this Hillary got this amount lavished on her is that

everyone has always know that Hillary was going to run for office and that it was hers to win.

This money is nudge nudge wink wink, don't forget your generous friends when your sitting in the the Oval Office Sweetheart.