http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/23/hillary-clintons-extravagant-lifestyle/Hillary Clinton’s extravagant lifestyle
Connecting with the middle class is something that eludes the former secretary of State
By Kelly Riddell - - Thursday, June 23, 2016
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Her campaign is based on the premise she’ll narrow the gap between the rich and the poor and understands the plight of the average working class.
“For the factory workers and food servers who stand on their feet all day. For the nurses who work the night shift. For the truckers who drive for hours and the farmers who feed us . For everyone who’s ever been knocked down, but refused to be knocked out,” Mrs. Clinton said during her presidential kick-off speech last year, vowing to fight for the middle class.
But this is a tough needle to thread, considering Mrs. Clinton is part of the top 1 percent of the 1 percent, and got that way profiting off of public service.
When Mrs. Clinton emerged from the hospital after the birth of her grandson this week, all eyes were on her $3,500 Ralph Lauren calfskin purse, being carried by an aide. New mom Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, paid upwards of $1,700 or more per night to stay in the Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan, the same one where Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their daughter.
The executive birthing suite is more like a five-star hotel, with “flat-screen TVs, lushly upholstered gray and cream sofas adorned with silken throw pillows,” the New York Daily News reported.
A far cry from your average hospital room.
There’s no doubt, Mrs. Clinton’s had trouble connecting with the people she’s trying to reach.
In the latest Quinnipiac poll in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, more than half of the respondents said Mrs. Clinton doesn’t “care about the needs and problems of people like you.”
They also judged rival Donald Trump as more “honest and trustworthy.”
And there’s no wonder why.
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