HILLARY IS THE 9TH MOST WEALTHY PERSON IN THE US

I often find the claims made by the Clinton campaign to be founded on the
most perverse distortion of facts. Among the most questionable is the claim
that while she represents the working class, Obama is the voice of the
"latte liberals." To test this claim, I decided to check their most recent
personal financial disclosures to see who was really closer to the working
class - Barack or Hillary?

It turns out that while HILLARY IS THE 9TH MOST WEALTHY PERSON IN THE US
SENATE, Barack is only the 66th. In fact, Hillary's income for 2006 is
listed at $10,665,528, while Barack's is $572,490. According to my math,
that puts Hillary about 10 MILLION DOLLARS further away from the working
class than Barack is.

To see the Clintons - multimillionaire residents of ritzy Chappaqua, NY -
accusing Barack of being a "boutique" liberal is utterly absurd; in fact,
it's demented. In the meantime, Clinton Finance Committee member Geraldine
Ferraro says the "truth" is that Barack has only risen as far as he has
because of some sort of affirmative action excercised by the millions of
Americans who voted for him, i.e. "because he's black." What does it all
mean? Quite clearly, the Clintons are trying to use class anger and race
animosity to lock down white working Dems in PA as they did in Ohio. Here
we have the Clintons, who are supposed to be close to the African-American
community, trying to rouse the race-baited anger of working whites to their
own advantage. Here we have Hillary Clinton - the 9th most wealthy person
in the millionaires club that is the US Senate - calling her opponent a
limosuine liberal. Where has any semblance of regard for the truth vanished
to? More importantly, where has any regard for building a diverse coalition
of Americans under the banner of the Democratic Party gone? Barack has
never called Hillary's voters names. He has never said that McCain is
qualified to be president while Hillary is not. He has never insinuated
that her voters all come from one demographic group (a demographic group
that, whether latte-drinkers or African Americans, should presumably be
ignored so that we can focus on the important people who vote Hillary -
remember Bill shrugging off the South Carolina landslide by saying "Well,
Jesse Jackson won here."?). Barack has walked the high road all along, and
for that - and for so much else about this Senator - we can be truly proud
to call ourselves his supporters.

If you're as stunned as I am - please share this information with people.

Here are links to my sources:

For Hillary
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00000019&year=2006
For Barack
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00009638&year=2006


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