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  •  It's not outrage (2+ / 0-)

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    bumblebums, Yoshi En Son

    It's just funny that Clinton is railing against hedge funds when her daughter works for one.

    You don't have to be political to find that funny.

    •  I don't see the humor. (2+ / 0-)

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      burrow owl, dennisl

      Ask kossacks who they work for.  I think you'll find quite a few of them work for corporations who are considered part of what is wrong with our nation.

      Some of us follow a Higher Calling when we choose an employer.  Some of us just follow the money.  

      Proud member of the Cult of Issues and Substance!

      by Fabian on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:04:07 AM PDT

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      •  DKos-Marx-Mania (3+ / 0-)

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        burrow owl, Fabian, dennisl

        The notion that working for a profit-making entity makes one an evil Republican lapdog of Dick Cheney.

        {Sigh}

        •  And the diary is how Edwards was attacked: (2+ / 0-)

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          Fabian, wils02

          'you can't be rich and criticize how policy skews toward the rich!'  Insert 'be immediate family w/ someone at a hedge fund' for 'be rich' and here's this thread.  Exact same logic at work.

          •  Oh, the Clintons are "well-off" sent Chelsea to.. (2+ / 0-)

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            burrow owl, Fabian

            Stanford & Oxford. LIKE THAT'S A BAD THING? You know we have reached the DKos end days when parents sending their children to top-notch colleges is considered 'elitist'.

            BTW, none of these DKos-Marx-people object to the ill-gotten Kennedy riches. Because, after all, Teddy endorsed Obama --- (that makes it okay).

            •  Yep. (1+ / 0-)

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              Fabian

              This is just the "$500 haircut" applied to HRC.

              •  Bill Clinton and John Edwards were POOR!! - (1+ / 0-)

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                Fabian

                HRC was middle class --- They are all newly "rich" (they aren't Kennedy rich). Why is it that old money is okay, but earned income is somehow tawdry?

                I would have thought that starting from nothing and becoming a millionaire would be a good story.

                Shows you what I know...

            •  Cutting through the bull (0+ / 0-)

              Oh, the Clintons are "well-off" sent Chelsea to
              Stanford & Oxford. LIKE THAT'S A BAD THING?

              It's not being affluent and sending your kids to upper-crust schools that's "A BAD THING."  It's your motivations in doing so that merit a subjective assessment of "good" or "bad."

              Going to school with the goal of quickly making loot upon graduation is probably something many Kossacks look upon with skepticism and deservedly so since rapid acquisition of material wealth rarely coincides with the pursuit of social justice.

              That's why many of us are impressed that Barack Obama chose NOT to become an investment banker or corporate lawyer; those are professions currently associated with impoverishing the lives of disadvantaged American workers, rather than enriching them.

              You know we have reached the DKos end days when parents sending their children to top-notch colleges is considered 'elitist'.

              It IS elitist.  There should be a word that objectively describes such schools and the mentality that venerates them.  It is "elitist."  Many paying students go there to do what Chelsea did - get on the fast track to a lucrative Wall Street job... OR to do what Barack did - gain the credentials that will qualify you for being US President some day.  Or Supreme Court Justice or U.S. District Attorney, etc., etc.  

              The adjective can be spun negatively if one wants to or it can assume a positive connotation:

              "My oldest son is a police officer who was just accepted into the SWAT team.  Less than 1/5 of the applicants can pass the training standards.  He's proud to belong to such an elite organization."

              BTW, none of these DKos-Marx-people object to the ill-gotten Kennedy riches. Because, after all, Teddy endorsed Obama --- (that makes it okay).

              I think the source of the Kennedy family's wealth is embarassing and ridiculous, but so what?  

              GO OBAMA!!

              •  That's......an interesting comment. (0+ / 0-)

                You find wealth embarassing and ridiculous.  Ok.  Yet Obama was a well-heeled lawyer (if you don't think his community activism was in anticipation of a political career, you're just too precious for this world) and his wife a corporate attorney.  

              •  I sent my children to elite Universities... (1+ / 0-)

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                Fabian

                ---and I'm not sorry (even though I will be in debt for years).

                Tell me, is it lonely up on Mount Olympus? If you think the Democrats will succeed without wealthy people you are on crack. I have a news flash for you: PLENTY of wealthy people believe in social justice.

                Fortunately, people outside of DKos-world (like Howard Dean) realize that having rich Democrats is a GOOD THING.

                BTW, "Elite" is positive. "Elitist" is pejorative.

      •  Lighten up (0+ / 0-)

        It's kind of funny. Not a laff riot, but it's amusing. A little ribbing won't hurt Hillary a bit.  

        Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. - Tennyson

        by bumblebums on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:18:07 AM PDT

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      •  You missed the point. (0+ / 0-)

        There is nothing wrong with working for a hedge fund.

        There is nothing wrong with working for an oil company or any other big corporation.

        There is something wrong with:

        1. Not working at those places even though you have the job title and salary and spending your time campaigning for your mom.
        1. There is something wrong with railing against hedge fund managers when you've gotten your daughter a job with one.
        1. There is something wrong with being a hypocrite. Working for big oil company? Fine. Working for big oil company while saying big oil sucks and makes profits off the little people? Not Fine.

        Nothing in this post has really been said, since i voted for Obama and therefore don't matter.

        by Fmrdempolop on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:20:51 AM PDT

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        •  HRC has said that hedge funds suck? (1+ / 0-)

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          dennisl

          She's railed against hedge fund managers?  And to think that all along I thought she was proposing changes to the tax code so that hedge fund managers would pay OI rates.

          Not that I don't believe you or anything, but I'd love  a quote to this hell-raising populism.  

    •  Yuckety-yuck-yuck. (0+ / 0-)

      Yeah, it's a laugh riot: "remember the one about Clinton taxing carried interest at ordinary income rates....."

      Oh, mercy.  Good times.

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