Hillary, Radiant.

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140. You make a valid point. Why was it so bad that she earned some great paychecks after she left

the State Department? What was she? Chopped liver? Don't think she was worth it, having performed beautifully on a world political and diplomatic scale? After being a successful and popular two-term Senator from a VERY big state - one that might not necessarily have been enthusiastic about her at first until she won them over with a statewide listening tour? After being a First Lady who did a LOT more than just bake cookies and have teas and pose with visiting troupes of Girl Scouts? A woman with a podium who wasn't afraid to use it to advocate for the greater good - not just in Arkansas but in Washington DC, the whole country, and the whole world? By the time she'd left the State Department after one term, she had ALREADY still earned Most Admired Woman in the World honors for about a dozen years in a row!

I wished SO badly that, whenever the inevitable criticism came up about how much she got paid for a speech, somebody somewhere would bother to point out what MEN of her stature were getting paid. I saw one set of figures that showed the top paycheck for a speech was paid to a male peer for 600-and-some-thousand dollars. I think it was either 625- or 650-THOUSAND dollars. By contrast, she got 225- or 250-thousand bucks for the same kind of speech. If I remember correctly, there was a list of five or six highest-paid speakers and what their fees were. All were men. Except for her. And she was at the bottom of this list. WHY did nobody EVER point that out?

And I forgot to add in my long-winded rant just above - I'm old enough to remember when you couldn't pay somebody to say they voted for Nixon. Watergate really pushed him underwater. Nixon voters could NOT be found. And he actually won his elections flat-out, popular vote and Electoral College, both times. You could find a winged unicorn in the flesh before you scrounged up a Nixon voter. NO ONE would admit to it. I bet we'll see the same thing about trump. It could wind up being a question of - before IMPEACHMENT? or after IMPEACHMENT?.