Clinton income
Every page on the internet seems to have a headline that the Clinton’s made $109 million since they left office. Like this story in the Washington Post;
After leaving the White House, the Clintons earned $30 million from their best-selling books and brought in as much as $15 million more through an investment partnership with one of her top presidential campaign fundraisers, California billionaire Ronald Burkle. The disclosures came with yesterday’s long-awaited release of the Clintons’ joint tax returns, a move made in the thick of Sen. Clinton’s fight with Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) for the Democratic nomination.
Sen. Clinton (N.Y.) initially resisted making her family’s finances public, but pressure on her to match Obama’s disclosure grew in February when she disclosed that she had dipped into her personal account to lend her campaign $5 million.
The tax returns illustrate the rags-to-riches story of a couple who came to the White House from Arkansas with modest means and left facing an estimated $12 million in legal debts rung up during investigations of the Whitewater land deal, campaign fundraising and the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal. As she entered the Senate and he left the political spotlight, the Clintons transformed themselves into a successful global brand.
If you’re interested in the break down of their income, American Pundit has the numbers.
I suppose the story is intended to foment some class envy and make Clintonistas have doubts about their class heroes – but it really doesn’t affect me at all. For one thing, I doubt there’s anything that can lower my opinion of the Clintons further than the depths it has already reached. But, I’m certainly not going to envy someone for what they’ve earned – as long as it’s legitimate.
If I could figure out a way to make you guys gladly pay for reading my posts here, don’t you think I would? If the Clintons have found a market for their drivel, more power to them, I say. Everybody has to make their way in the world, and if the Clintons make their way selling that Leftist snakeoil, I don’t hold it against them.
Lord knows there’s enough to hold against them in the way of policy and politics, but I hate to see the conservatives and Republicans fall into the trap of class warfare that the media has laid out for us. Let Obama and his side beat her up for branding the Clinton legacy, we should be patting her on the back for proving to the world that capitalism works.
