For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: according to the Democrats and their media minions, this is the worst economy since Hoover was President -- unless, of course, you're a former Democrat president and a Democrat senator running for the White House:
In the past eight years, Bill and Hillary Clinton earned a combined $109 million, with the former president collecting nearly half of that money as a speaker hired at times by companies that have been among his wife's most generous political supporters..."We've come a long way from Harry Truman," said Leon E. Panetta, a Clinton administration official who now directs the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, referring to the "man from Missouri" who left the presidency to live a modest lifestyle in his home state. "In many ways, it is becoming the American story. A lot of people who have devoted their lives to public service, who lived hand-to-mouth during months of public service, are suddenly able, after public life, to find some rewards."
Is this big news that conservatives should be all over, or should we capitalists applaud their high-earning ways? Or, is this the height of hypocrisy for a couple campaigning on how nobody in this country can get ahead without massive federal assistance? Will this impact the nomination and election processes?
