• Okay, the World Cup starts when?
• Hillary Clinton can’t leave wealthy enough alone. After her “dead broke” interview, she told the Guardian that regular Americans “don’t see me as part of the problem, because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off . . . and we’ve done it through dint of hard work.” The “hard work” of which she boasts was rising in politics, then being paid for her reflections, in speaking fees and book advances. Nothing to be embarrassed about in that: She charges what the market will bear. But she is embarrassed because she and her fellow Democrats spend so much time railing at rich people they do not like: the Koch brothers, Mitt Romney. Thus “the problem” of which she claims not to be a part. Mrs. Clinton is “truly well off” by most people’s reckoning. She cannot accept it and move on, which shows that she has neither grace nor humor: traits valuable in any politician, essential in one who practices the dangerous politics of envy.
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