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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Does it bother you that the Clintons are part of the top 0.1%? [View all]6chars
(3,967 posts)41. Other rich candidates:
Obamas (two Harvard Law grads, though not quite so rich, but they will become richer by the time they are the Clinton's age), John Kerry (richer, if you count Heinz money), Al Gore (now richer than the Clintons). Even Carter was fairly rich.
That leaves recent outliers of Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, and George McGovern. That is not a promising lineup for Dems to emulate in trying to take the White House.
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Does it bother you that the Clintons are part of the top 0.1%? [View all]
californiabernin
Feb 2016
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Just about every good thing that happened for the average american came because of this rich 1%er
workinclasszero
Feb 2016
#21
And the Clintons stand for everything that FDR was against. Sen Sanders on the other hand
rhett o rick
Feb 2016
#30
Meta I guess but there was great mini series about the Roosevelt family on PBS recently
workinclasszero
Feb 2016
#17
It's not that she's part of that. It's that she protects the rigged game to fuck workers
onecaliberal
Feb 2016
#5
since he was actually president at the time he did get paid...by taxpayers lol nt
msongs
Feb 2016
#26
I don't care that they are part of the top 0.1%, I care how they got the money.
Motown_Johnny
Feb 2016
#20
No it bothers me that they are a couple of power at all costs middle of the road
CBGLuthier
Feb 2016
#23
Here's a list of the top 10 wealthiest US presidents (adjusted to today's dollars)
frazzled
Feb 2016
#31