Can you spell tone deaf? H-I-L-L-A-R-Y. Hillary Clinton: We Were 'Dead Broke' Upon Leaving WH

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15. they had lived out of the gov mansion in Arkansas so they did need a home

I liked the move to New York and Hillary Clinton's commitment to public service representing that state.

I believe her when she says their debts were astronomical. This is a family that was under attack; the entire family; from the republican party and the early beginnings of the bat-shit crazy cottage industry of hate that we're suffering through today.

Hillary, herself had earned a top dollar as a private attorney before she followed Bill into the White House. I don't see any reason why she wouldn't want to begin to build the same type of income structure for her and the former President. You don't have to feel sorry for them. They could certainly have chosen to live at whatever level folks think is low enough to not feel resentment or animus toward their personal accumulation of assets.

From what I see, most of the 'wealth' folks are attributing to the Clintons when they left the WH were in the form of 'assets'. That's nebulous enough to me to conclude that it's believable that they could see the end of their financial rope if they didn't start earning money. Then there was their daughter, who was grown and all of those expenses to consider. There's also the need for folks in that position to have a secure residence and that takes bucks.

Again, no one should shed a tear about all of that, but I don't see where Hillary or anyone else has asked anyone to feel sorry for them. She was just stating a fact. She says they were in debt from legal fees and the like and I believe her. I wondered where all of the millions for those personal lawyers was coming from at the time. It must have been an enormous debt . . . and all in defense against a political onslaught which was directed at her family; but, really was intended to invalidate our Democratic votes for our Democratic president. Impeachment? Vince Foster? Whitewater? They bore that political burden, mostly alone. Hell, even today, folks act as if they were to blame for all of that.

If you don't like these folks earning money from speaking fees, that's certainly a legitimate criticism. But criticizing her for declaring that the family was financially in over their heads? They most certainly were when they left the WH - and I'm not sure that the public who the Clintons had worked for and spent their time in office defending and supporting with their efforts wanted to see them bankrupt, no matter how much more advantaged they were than the average American.

It's almost as if folks criticizing these comments of hers couldn't have cared less if they had fallen flat on their faces and were ground under by debt. It has happened to public servants leaving office in the past. Maybe that would have satisfied the critics, but I doubt it.