Evidently, Hillary Clinton has someone or a group of someones in her ear telling her it’s important she be seen as just walkin’ around folks.
So her opening play was to claim she was “dead broke” when the Clintons left the White House.
That she would do something so clumsy is not that surprising. She’s never been particularly slick politically. What does surprise me, though, is that she’s apparently not smart enough to leave it alone. This weekend she tore the nascent scab off with a claim of not being “truly well off.”
Now note the depth of this blunder. It’s an unforced error to discuss it again in any capacity, when it’s clearly absurd to suppose the Clintons were paycheck-to-paycheck in January 2001.
But note also she’s making a current claim of not being “truly well off.” She’s saying she’s not truly well off right now.
Ahem. Okay.
Now, from the start, the straw man that many Hillary Clinton apologists have erected to attack is that conservatives are hypocritically bashing her for her wealth. That is absolutely not the case. It is her apparently dogged insistence that what she has is not reasonably considered wealth that exposes her to such sustained ridicule.
No one who owns two multi-million dollar homes, or receives a $14,000,000 book advance, or who can command $200,000 for a single speech, is anything but wealthy. When these things are true of you, trying to claim the mantle of a regular old working stiff is not only ludicrous, but offensive.
Mrs. Clinton, Democrats at large: if you’d stop demonizing the wealthy as a core practice, you wouldn’t find yourselves in these corners.
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But then they wouldn’t be Democrats.