By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--February 2, 2017
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Clinton has signed on with the Harry Walker Agency, the Associated Press reported, where she regularly commanded $200,000 or more per speech before her failed campaign for the White House. The AP reported Wednesday that Clinton will also be writing a book featuring a compilation of personal essays, “inspired by the hundreds of quotations she has been collecting for decades.”
“These are the words I live by,” Clinton said in a press release from her publisher, Simon & Schuster. “These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer,” she said.OK, whatever. The only words Hillary lives by are "Power and money for Hillary Clinton," but I don't need to tell you that. I'm sure she can get booked for some gigs, but I'll be astonished if she gets the kind of money she was getting before. She is a) a terrible speaker; b) no longer politically relevant; and c) well-known for saying what audiences want to hear rather than what she really thinks. You're a group of bankers? Bankers are the backbone of America! So says Hillary during the 45 minutes she's on your dime . . . or 2 million dimes, as it were, But if you know she's going to say exactly the opposite to some other group, and you also know it doesn't matter a hill of beans what she thinks about anything anyway, why pay for the privilege of listening to her say it? Also: I wonder how much of the bloom is off the rose that was once Hillary's reputation as being a brilliant political figure. She sold people on this myth early on during her years as First Lady, and without a doubt it was part of what created demand for her. Lots of us who paid attention could see what a crock it was, but if you're a just-skim-the-headlines business type who's not ideological and likes to be of the same mind as the powerful and influential, hey, that Hillary Clinton. She's smart as a whip!
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