There's definitely plenty of unrest there. Whether it will mean anything is anyone's guess. But there's unrest. Take for example this recent piece by Nicholas von Hoffman, appearing at the website of The Nation magazine, perhaps the leading liberal journal of opinion in the U.S. The reason for the unrest? Bill and Hillary Clinton's fundraising practices, which at root has to do with the kind of thing the Norman Hsu case has raised. See below--and note in the first paragraph below how Mr. Von Hoffman really is reviewing charges that Republicans and conservatives made against Mrs. Clinton back in the 1990s, charges that liberals and Democrats used to claim were baseless and unproven. They don't seem to feel that way now. I wonder why. The woman has always had an affinity for gold. You can trace her appetite for bling back to her Arkansas days, when she was a partner in the Rose Law Firm. Questions arose about her billing clients, which have not yet been satisfactorily answered. Nor have the suspicions about her picking up that quick 100 grand in the commodities market been allayed. The commodities market is where they bet on the price of things like oil and pork belly futures; amateur investors get swindled but not Hillary. No amateur she when it comes to the dough-ray-me...
Both of the Clintons seem to have gone money-crazy. Bill is out loose on the world taking enormous amounts of money from anyone who pays him to appear anywhere and bragging about it. With a pension of $186,000 a year plus innumerable other perks, another ex-President might rein in the itchy palm urge, but Bill is not known as a self-control artist. Whether he is also acting as a bag man for his wife is something for future grand juries to investigate.
