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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: HunterCA

http://nypost.com/2015/06/10/why-the-times-is-obsessed-with-smearing-marco-rubio/

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It’s no surprise the liberal paper of record will bash leading GOP contenders. But two hit jobs in one week on a guy who’s at best third in a Republican field of nearly 20?
Perhaps Sen. Rubio represents a special threat. He’s not just a credible GOP candidate — he’s also a first-generation Cuban-American success story.
Few things worry the liberal establishment more than the rise of minority conservatives who reject welfare-state identity politics.

We finally have an answer to the threads title question . And that answer is the NYT.

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Marco Rubio apparently lacks personal financial acumen. There's no way he even wins the Republican Primary.

Little of Mr. Rubio’s income at this time went into savings. An analysis of his financial disclosures by Jude Boudreaux, a longtime financial planner and an adjunct professor at Loyola University New Orleans teaching personal finance, shows that Mr. Rubio earned $2.38 million from 1998 to 2008 but ended up with an estimated net worth of $53,000 (slightly more than Mr. Rubio disclosed himself). His savings rate during that period was about 2 percent.

Marco Rubio's Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

Marco Rubio apparently lacks personal financial acumen. There's no way he even wins the Republican Primary.

Little of Mr. Rubio’s income at this time went into savings. An analysis of his financial disclosures by Jude Boudreaux, a longtime financial planner and an adjunct professor at Loyola University New Orleans teaching personal finance, shows that Mr. Rubio earned $2.38 million from 1998 to 2008 but ended up with an estimated net worth of $53,000 (slightly more than Mr. Rubio disclosed himself). His savings rate during that period was about 2 percent.

Marco Rubio's Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles

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“It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons,” Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group, told the New York Post in April after conflict-of-interest reports started surfacing between the Clinton Foundation and Mrs. Clinton’s political work. Mr. Allison declined to be interviewed for this article.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

What kind of rube makes 2.38 Million Dollars from 1998-2008 only to come out of that period with a net worth of $53K? That is definition: FUCKED UP.

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Nobody sued Rubio forcing him into extraordinary legal bills.

More Relevant to Clinton was leaving the USA with a budget surplus.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

What kind of rube makes 2.38 Million Dollars from 1998-2008 only to come out of that period with a net worth of $53K? That is definition: FUCKED UP.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


Nobody sued Rubio forcing him into extraordinary legal bills.

More Relevant to Clinton was leaving the USA with a budget surplus.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


Nobody sued Rubio forcing him into extraordinary legal bills.

More Relevant to Clinton was leaving the USA with a budget surplus.

Which was forced on him by a Republican Congress.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


Nobody sued Rubio forcing him into extraordinary legal bills.

More Relevant to Clinton was leaving the USA with a budget surplus.

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You are BEYOND IGNORANT:

The most important achievement in political economy in the Clinton yeas was reducing the federal deficit. Just before his inauguration Clinton held an economic summit in Little Rock, at which academic, business executives, and financiers one after another moaned about how huge federal borrowing to cover debt was making capital too expensive to allow industry to grow. One year later Clinton had rammed through a tax-and -budget bill that turned a chronic deficit into a surplus.

The anti-deficit drive was controversial within the Democratic Party, because Clinton seemed to be truckling to financial markets rather than spending more for education and health. It was bitterly resisted by the Republicans; every single Republican member of Congress voted against the new taxes in the plan. It was an enormous gamble on Clinton's part: he had Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. The historical judgment has to be that it paid off, for Clinton, and, of vastly more importance, for the country.

--James Fallows

But two things stick out so far from the normal that they will probably be remembered no matter what happens. One of them is the sheer insensate virulence of his critics. If size can be measured by the lip-frothing frustration of one's enemies, Clinton is right up there with Moby-Dick. The other is the five-minute standing ovation Clinton received at the UN at the height of the Monica madness. The applause couldn't all have been for adultery--not even the applause from the French Ambassador.

And even if, as his critics maintain, its was all a trick both at home and abroad, the trick had worked wonderfully well. But he couldn't have gotten all five minutes without Kenneth Starr.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

What kind of rube makes 2.38 Million Dollars from 1998-2008 only to come out of that period with a net worth of $53K? That is definition: FUCKED UP.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

What kind of rube makes 2.38 Million Dollars from 1998-2008 only to come out of that period with a net worth of $53K? That is definition: FUCKED UP.

When did he get his book advance?

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

You are BEYOND IGNORANT:

The most important achievement in political economy in the Clinton yeas was reducing the federal deficit. Just before his inauguration Clinton held an economic summit in Little Rock, at which academic, business executives, and financiers one after another moaned about how huge federal borrowing to cover debt was making capital too expensive to allow industry to grow. One year later Clinton had rammed through a tax-and -budget bill that turned a chronic deficit into a surplus.

The anti-deficit drive was controversial within the Democratic Party, because Clinton seemed to be truckling to financial markets rather than spending more for education and health. It was bitterly resisted by the Republicans; every single Republican member of Congress voted against the new taxes in the plan. It was an enormous gamble on Clinton's part: he had Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. The historical judgment has to be that it paid off, for Clinton, and, of vastly more importance, for the country.

--James Fallows

But two things stick out so far from the normal that they will probably be remembered no matter what happens. One of them is the sheer insensate virulence of his critics. If size can be measured by the lip-frothing frustration of one's enemies, Clinton is right up there with Moby-Dick. The other is the five-minute standing ovation Clinton received at the UN at the height of the Monica madness. The applause couldn't all have been for adultery--not even the applause from the French Ambassador.

And even if, as his critics maintain, its was all a trick both at home and abroad, the trick had worked wonderfully well. But he couldn't have gotten all five minutes without Kenneth Starr.