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Divernan

(15,480 posts)
19. HRC slumming in $1.7 Mil. home of Portland trust fund baby.
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 09:43 AM
Aug 2015
HRC slumming it in $1.7 Mil.home of Philips/Andover, Harvard grad.

Some people are said to have been born with a silver spoon in their mouths; HRC's trust-fund baby host, heir to banking fortune, is described (see below) as having been born with a platinum spoon in his mouth.
Same old, same old - Hillary hangin' with her peeps, the very rich, the one percent. And as F. Scott Fitzgerald accurately observed: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them. Unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." Now granted HRC & Bill weren't born very rich, but have we ever seen any political pair pursue the life style of the rich and famous with more dedication and determination than the Clintons?

Read more at http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34538/#pbK32mF9SFxqOOV8.99

Where
Home of Win McCormack and Carol Butler - 11878 SW Riverwood Road, Portland
http://politicalpartytime.org/party/39929/

Meet HRC's host: Win McCormack
McCormack is the author of: You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values. Therein he documented, among other shortcomings, 22 examples of adultery by Republican politicians and activists. He described these acts as "overwhelming deviance from professed moral standards". Ironic that Win trashes Republican sex offenders, when McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/win-mccormack/introduction-to-emyou-don_b_117106.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_McCormack

I googled to see if Bill Clinton had reviewed or recommended this book, but apparently he hasn't. Hope Win has the good taste to put his extra copies of the book out of sight before HRC arrives.

And if anyone should have good taste and good manners it should be Win, who was born to great wealth and prepped at Phillips Academy Andover and got his BA at Harvard. Are y'all familiar w/ Phillips Exeter? Founded during the American Revolutionary War, doncha' know, Muffy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Academy

An Amazon review: McCormack as hypocrite
ByKip Dellinger "Kip"on August 25, 2008
Format: Paperback
As the publisher's review says, McCormack's complaint taken realistically seems to be of a problem endemic to American society rather than Republicans or their politicians. In fact, it's almost laughable when one thinks about FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Gary Hart and on and on.

But, gentle readers, do not fear for Win McCormack. He is an heir (a principal one) to the McCormack family wealth - the McCormack brothers that founded Illinois Tool Co. (used to be Illinois Tool & Die Works) and Northern Trust (one of America's oldest and most pretigious "big" banks).

Like too many trust fund babys born with the silver spoon (in this case Platinum) in their mouths, and taken care of for their entire lives by trust distributions, McCormack believes that he is entitled to tell the rest of the world how to live. A bit of digging around into who he is and what he came from, will reveal enough hypocrisy on his part to discredit his Republicans as the country's only bad guys.

http://www.amazon.com/You-Dont-Know-Me-Republican/product-reviews/0979419867/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

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28,000! ! ! merrily Aug 2015 #1
:) why waste the money, he's doing fine with the free coverage! peacebird Aug 2015 #2
Gosh darn it, people like him. I was just wondering. merrily Aug 2015 #3
No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go cantbeserious Aug 2015 #4
some repugs couldn't draw 28 rurallib Aug 2015 #5
Speaking of Rick Santorum . . . . . Divernan Aug 2015 #24
Please don't.... daleanime Aug 2015 #27
lol. nt restorefreedom Aug 2015 #36
So when will the national media start covering him? When he fills 100,000 seat stadiums? A Simple Game Aug 2015 #6
Yep, media is a joke kracer20 Aug 2015 #9
Yeah the glimmer of hope for MSNBC started fading back when Donahue was fired. A Simple Game Aug 2015 #11
MSNBC... icarusxat Aug 2015 #57
You mean State News aka Oligarchy News? Never. nt valerief Aug 2015 #21
yes, but don't tell them yet. The week after Dean bbgrunt Aug 2015 #55
Bern baby Bern! RoccoR5955 Aug 2015 #7
Any bets on how long it takes to see "his campaign SAYS", elsewhere. djean111 Aug 2015 #8
....! Derailleur... KoKo Aug 2015 #12
Sanders will not be derailled! ananda Aug 2015 #14
They've got nothing but "HRC talks to 60 millionaires on private estate". Divernan Aug 2015 #15
I have been wondering - does anybody really sincerely and lucidly believe that this enthusiasm djean111 Aug 2015 #17
I don't think artislife Aug 2015 #38
Definitely not. Many had already left the Party or were always Indies. merrily Aug 2015 #42
I will write in Bernie. GoneFishin Aug 2015 #58
Before Bernie announced, a relative told me she was going to write in Warren, but merrily Aug 2015 #59
At last night's PDX rally, there were tables that had flyers saying you must register as a Democrat oregonjen Aug 2015 #26
Thank you for that info - I am quite the grandma about this sort of thing. djean111 Aug 2015 #29
This is so key artislife Aug 2015 #39
Is that true? In Massachusetts, I can vote in the Democratic primary if I am merrily Aug 2015 #43
I know for a fact that many of us attending last night were carrying voter registration forms... cascadiance Aug 2015 #33
Thanks! I don't know why I worried about that! djean111 Aug 2015 #35
There is an Independent Party. So, that gets confusing. merrily Aug 2015 #44
Yep. But he never asked me about it, and just checked it. djean111 Aug 2015 #45
Isn't that fun, when you can relate to a relative though politics? merrily Aug 2015 #47
i noticed the..."his campaign says" too questionseverything Aug 2015 #41
good point. Or, call the venue. merrily Aug 2015 #48
There were Thousands more fredamae Aug 2015 #10
Hey...I watched the KGW feed and I'm in Los Angeles. SoapBox Aug 2015 #28
It would have been a fredamae Aug 2015 #32
I watched it from 45 feet Pastiche423 Aug 2015 #62
Shouldn't have been locked in LBN; was w/in 12 hours of event. Divernan Aug 2015 #13
It was locked because someone else beat me to it by LiberalElite Aug 2015 #52
Channeling Emily Litella: "Oh . . . . never mind." Divernan Aug 2015 #53
hehehe LiberalElite Aug 2015 #54
Earlier Hillary came to Portland, too. DrBulldog Aug 2015 #16
HRC slumming in $1.7 Mil. home of Portland trust fund baby. Divernan Aug 2015 #19
Not fer nuthin, but $1.7 million does not sound like a lot for a home to these merrily Aug 2015 #46
Location, location, location Divernan Aug 2015 #50
It seems ironic that you needed $2,700 per person to see her speak when she was here... cascadiance Aug 2015 #34
Yet Fox is still bashing Hillary 24/7. Chipper Chat Aug 2015 #18
Are they still calling the last election tavernier Aug 2015 #20
For one thing, they still have all their Hillary stuff from 2008, and she still has that djean111 Aug 2015 #30
Republicans are just as adamant as MSNBC that Hillary will be the nominee. merrily Aug 2015 #49
Let them artislife Aug 2015 #40
Shouldn't this be in (primary) GD? kenfrequed Aug 2015 #22
Should also be there & should have been in LBN Divernan Aug 2015 #23
I stated above that I posted in LBN and it was blocked because LiberalElite Aug 2015 #60
If you want to post it go ahead but I'm avoiding GD-P nt LiberalElite Aug 2015 #61
I love Portland. LWolf Aug 2015 #25
Well done Portland. azmom Aug 2015 #31
Just wow, here in NY we're waiting for our chance Babel_17 Aug 2015 #37
The media are starting to listen Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2015 #51
No need for debates yet, there's no public appetite for them! Babel_17 Aug 2015 #56
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