ABC News is reporting that the Clintons Have Made More Than $50 Million Since Leaving the White House:
A review of Sen. Clinton's annual ethics filings found that her husband has earned $47 million in fees from more than 280 speeches he has made around the world.
Gee, Bill Clinton must be a really really wise man for him to have been paid so much for 280 speeches. I am sure that he has really earned all that money, because, after all, he is a genius who knows so much about everything.
Take for example:
Clinton's biggest patrons include New York-based investment firm Goldman Sachs, which paid him $650,000 for four speeches in recent years, and two foreign firms. Gold Services International, a Colombian-based event organizer, brought Clinton to Latin America in 2005 for four days of speeches, earning Clinton $800,000. Another company, Toronto-based Power Within, paid Clinton $650,000 for a series of motivational speeches in Canada in 2005.
I am sure that Bill Clinton is every bit the financial genius worthy of being paid $650,000 by Goldman Sachs for four speeches.
I am sure that these firms who paid Bill $47 million had no ulterior quid pro quo agenda, that they simply genuinely just wanted to hear Bill utter his brilliant wisdoms.
I am sure that these firms were never in their minds "investing" in a possible Bill Clinton virtual third term come 2008.
I am sure that Bill Clinton never told these firms to take care of him now, and he will reciprocally take care of them later when he gets his virtual third term come 2008.