Saturday, April 5, 2008

Does It Pay To Be A Politician?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040403927.html?hpid=topnews

Clintons Earned $109 Million in 8 Years
Senator Releases Tax Returns as Part of Presidential Battle.


I am too old now, but if I had realized how lucrative the postiton was when I was a young man, I just might have decided to become president instead of doing what I did. Oh, well. We all have 20/20 hindsight.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now here is the way I look at that. It is just $109,000,000 that the taxpayers had to shell out to support these greedy people. They claim they donated 33 million dollars to charities, but how can we be sure that they did? How can we be sure that these charities were not organizations that hated the United States? I'll bet they never knew anybody would ask that. Look at Opera Winfrey, for example. She spent all her money on South African kids when they are suffering just as much in Chicago where she lives. All these people who claim to be so high and mighty are really nothing when you take a close look. The Clintons are the same. I don't know who we should vote for. McCain is just as bad and Obama is worse. I am glad I won't live long enough to see how my kids and grand kids are going to live. Don't tell me that the end of the world is not near.

GrandpaInTexas said...

Bill was okay. I am sure that Hillary will be okay too. She will be strong on defense and have a lot more sense that the current administration has exhibited. She is bright and experienced and wants to take our country in the right direction while honoring the constitution. After all, that is our basic guiding document. She will not be trying to take away our constitutional rights in the name of national security. She will not take away a woman's right to have control over her body. She will not allow our military to use torture when it probably won't accomplish anytyhing anyway, So what if she and Bill made millions? Nothing wrong with that. Let's focus on what's important. What kind of a president will Hillary make? Isn't that what it's all about when we go to the polls next November?

Anonymous said...

Hey. As far as I'm concerned Obama did not make a mistake when he made his "Bitter" comment. In my opinion, he was right on target. But I suppose you don't tell the truth if you want to be president. You say what people want to hear. Go Obama.