Hillary doesn’t see the disconnect between expressing grave concern about mounting student loan debt while scarfing six-figure sums from at least eight colleges, and counting. She says now that she’s passing the university money to the foundation but, never Ms. Transparency, has refused to provide documentation of that.
Well, we’ve been following this story on University Diaries for awhile now, and because it’s about obvious high-profile hypocrisy, it was only a matter of time before Maureen Dowd got hold of it and majorly amplified it. So that has happened.
July 13th, 2014 at 5:21PM
I don’t have anything against Hillary or Bill. They’ve worked politics to their (eventual) personal advantage, their hides are Kevlar, and their shamelessness epic. Both seem to me puppets of their time and circumstances. Hillary’s reply to the Hobby Lobby abortifacient decision seemed to me almost supernaturally deft, as though she were programmed.
My personal feeling is that Hill’y is so hardened she really doesn’t understood why there’d be criticism of her quarter-million a pop Platitude Express Tour.
July 13th, 2014 at 7:38PM
Not to worry, we have been assured that it is all going to charity.
Which one? Why the Clinton Foundation of course.
If the UCLA and UNLV students and faculty want to see where their money is going, they are welcome to visit the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. Guided tours daily.
July 14th, 2014 at 5:47PM
Way back, I did some very minor, non-electoral, issue-oriented politicking on my own nickel. I was offered sex of various species (I declined); two corrupt public officials tried to get me indicted (they failed); I got a minor rough-up from a crooked cop (he failed); I was offered “jobs” that I understood as cover-up money (I declined). I thought I was being a do-gooder citizen.
Two questions, I guess. What kind of constituency is likely to be attracted by Candidate X’s practiced rhetoric? How vulnerable to a corruption of heart is Candidate X because of political brutalization?
Hillary may still be a great human being, but my personal feeling is she’s just too damaged.