Hillary Clinton Will Interrupt Vacation to Campaign in Midwest

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

By AMY CHOZICKAUG. 21, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton had planned to spend the last two weeks of August on vacation, unwinding and fund-raising on the exclusive shores of Long Island. But, as it turns out, this is no time for a vacation.

Amid concerns about Mrs. Clinton’s softening poll numbers and her exclusive use of a personal email server as secretary of state, she will interrupt her Hamptons stay next week to travel to the Midwest and try to shift attention back to her campaign message by unveiling new policy positions.

She will then return to the Hamptons, where she and former President Bill Clinton are renting a beachside estate in Amagansett that costs $100,000 for a two-week stay, and will attend several $2,700-per-person fund-raisers hosted there by her wealthy friends.

With questions about Mrs. Clinton’s use of private email persisting — a federal judge said Thursday that the practice did not comply with government policies — and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. considering seeking the Democratic nomination, the late-August doldrums have proven anything but.

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[Frustratedlady]

1. That $100K rent should help her image.

They just don't get it.

[RufusTFirefly]

2. Two wks in the Hamptons = 1/2 the reported annual income of Jane and Bernie

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/30/on-tax-returns-sanders-and-wife-report-200000-in-income-mostly-from-his-senate-post/

[blaze]

5. Two weeks in the Hamptons = 5 years income for me. nt

[Historic NY]

13. Its New Yawk everthing is expensive...don't cha know.

[L0oniX]

42. I could retire on it.

[murielm99]

19. $200,000.00 a year?

The median income in this country is just under $52,000. Bernie has a lot. He has more than most of us.

[candelista]

23. He's only worth about $1/2 million

Including his house. Upper middle class.

[murielm99]

26. He still has more than most of us. n/t

[candelista]

27. Don't draw the class line too close to yourself.

The problem is a very small class of people--the top 1%.

[murielm99]

28. This isn't about me.

[Chemisse]

32. I don't begrudge her a nice vacation.

And it's not like they can just rent a motel cabin or hole up at a campground like most of us would do. They have to have a large area that is hidden from view and can be secured by the Secret Service.

[riversedge]

35. Well said. Plus going to a place that

you love is good for the soul.

[L0oniX]

41. In that case wouldn't it be here...

[99th_Monkey]

3. what is it with Team Hillary suspending their vacations?

first it was James Carvelle and now Hillary.

[riversedge]

36. Good on Hillary. No dust will collect

under her feet.

[jkbRN]

4. She is just way

too generous.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Sounds like she's worried?

[Chemisse]

33. She should be.

Bernie's nipping at her heels; Joe Biden is meeting with Warren; the email catastrophe is eroding her poll numbers.

It's about time she gets to work if she wants to win this election.

[L0oniX]

7. Quite the sacrifice.

[wolfie001]

8. She should just go to Bentonville and tour Wakmart already!

Line up the troops for inspection! Give a speech extolling Walmart values and virtues and provide us peons with some photo-ops. Great idea right?

[SoapBox]

9. Ugh...

She was going to fund raise on her vacation.

She loves that money.

[Metric System]

10. Or maybe she knows that, like it or not, it takes a lot of money to win. Just look at Biden. He's

contemplating running and one of the first things he's doing is talking to potential donors. That's politics. Have you seen the GOP's war chest?

[virtualobserver]

12. you mean the war chest that will be useless in stopping Trump from hijacking their party?

[candelista]

11. Here's a montage of the house & grounds

http://linkis.com/dailymail.co.uk/Sea_views_sweeping_l.html

I think Hillary and Bill want to be billionaires before they depart this world. They are already a tenth of the way there. Hillary in the Presidency would be a big boost. Speakers' fees for both of them would go on for a long time.

[Purveyor]

14. Happy times, indeed.

[okasha]

16. Oh, look!

No shadows! They're vampires!

[last1standing]

39. Yes, they suck the hopes and dreams of a future from the poor and working class.

n/t

[okasha]

43. Should have added this.

[last1standing]

44. LOL! I was just going along with your post.

I'm not a Hillary supporter in this campaign but I think she'd work for better economic policies than any repub.

But if you give me a set up like that, I'm going to take it.

[okasha]

45. Actually, the point was that this is yet again

another piece of bad Photoshop. The thing amateur 'shoppers almost never get right is the lighting. In this case, there's a low-angle sun and no shadows. There's other discrepancies, too, but I'm not going to help the faker out by listing them.

[last1standing]

46. Quite possible, but I think there are shadows there if you look closely.

At least I thought there were. Either way, I was just having some fun with the statement, not expressing a real political viewpoint.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

15. Does she have a job?

What is she taking a vacation from?

[candelista]

17. Currently, no.

Her contract with her previous employer was not renewed.

[Metric System]

18. Reading some of the above comments I could swear I had stumbled on to a Right-Wing forum.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. Nah, but some hillarians think she was pre ordained

And anyone who tells the emperor that his (her) outfit is not quite . . .er .. Right, is accused of being a right winger.

[candelista]

24. +1 nt

[Psephos]

22. You mean the comments defending plutocrats' conspicuous consumption?

Yeah, I had the same feeling.

[Cal Carpenter]

40. well played n/t

[JoePhilly]

37. Hillary and Bill's vacations are the Outrage DU jour.

[LovingA2andMI]

20. Must be nice....

"She will then return to the Hamptons, where she and former President Bill Clinton are renting a beachside estate in Amagansett that costs $100,000 for a two-week stay, and will attend several $2,700-per-person fund-raisers hosted there by her wealthy friends."

Meanwhile, somewhere in the USA a child is wondering where their next meal will come from.....

[candelista]

25. We permit this.

We license the contradiction, "America is and is not an affluent society." We do it every time we vote for a candidate who represents the status quo.

[olddots]

29. that massage made me so tired .........

[tularetom]

30. I'm not impressed - I bet that place doesn't even have a car elevator

[AngryAmish]

31. She is feeling Deez Nuts behind her.

[Sienna86]

34. The Hamptons versus the real world in middle class America

Glad she thinks it's important.

[still_one]

38. and why is this LBN instead of General Discussion : Primaries?