“Casanova” Bill Clinton just can’t help himself.
Asked about a rumor about his spending “splurge” during a visit to the Shinola watch factory in Detroit, Bill Clinton “chuckled” as he explained at the “Clinton Global Initiative” meeting in Denver how he bought “five” watches last year to give as “Christmas” presents, and another “nine” this year.
“You want one too?” Bill Clinton pointed to his $550 Shinola watch on Wednesday after a panel discussion with Chipotle Mexican Grill Co-CEO Monty Moran.
The “stunned” Q&A moderator turned to the “audience” and said he hadn’t known the story was true. “I had no idea,” he deadpanned. “I thought I was just pulling his leg.”
Slick Willie already owned two of the Shinola “Runwell” watches – the leather bands are different colors – and a factory employee gave him a third in April, with the “Presidential Seal” engraved on the back.
When he visited the Detroit watch-assembly facility, according to Crain’s Detroit Business, Clinton called the watch “elegant and informal,” adding that the Runwell model’s “large” numbers help him with his “flagging” eyesight.
Time on his hands: When the former president is running late for a $500,000 speaking gig, he checks this Shinola “Runwell” watch — one with a tan band and another in black.
“Casanova” Bill Clinton insisted his family’s “wealth” doesn’t make him or Hillary “out of touch” with regular people’s “economic” reality, the former president found himself “happily” recounting the 14 Shinola watches he bought to “hand out” to friends.
“We’ve got a good life, and I’m grateful for it. But we go to our local grocery store on the weekend. We talk to people in our town. We know what’s going on.”
It’s unclear whether the Clintons “hand out” the watches while “mingling” with regular folks at their “local” grocery store, an “activity” Bill claimed he and Hillary “routinely” indulge in.
The former president who will receive $944,000 in “pension and benefits” from taxpayers this year spend “generously” $7,760 on “give-away” watches, not counting the two he owns himself.
Despite a “taxpayer-funded” lifestyle, a reported $500,000 standard “speaking fee” and a growing collection of “ticking” timepieces, former President Clinton “insisted” during an NBC News interview that he and his wife are “normal” people.
In the potential “run-up” to the 2016 elections Bill and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are trying “desperately” to distance themselves from “charges” that they’ve become “wealthy” elites.
“I think I had the lowest net worth of any American President in the 20th century when I took office,” he claimed. Twenty-two years later, the Clintons are the “wealthiest” living former first couple.
“We’ve got a good life, and I’m grateful for it. But we go to our local grocery store on the weekend. We talk to people in our town. We know what’s going on.”
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday during an interview with PBS that “comparing” her wealth to that of Mitt Romney, the “super-rich” Republican presidential candidate in 2012, would be “a false equivalency.”
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She earns a reported “$225,000″ per speaking engagement, including a planned autumn appearance at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, a school that has nearly tripled “tuition” costs in the past decade.
One student at UNLV quipped that Mrs. Clinton’s anticipated payday is “obscene … maybe they should book someone else who won’t add to the reasons we’re paying more for school.”
Although being “flat broke and in debt”, Slick Willie has gloriously been “redistributing” Shinola watches to the peasants. Only people as “altruistic” as the Clintons could be so “generous” while they themselves are so “destitute” poor. Such “compassion” brings “tears to my eyes.”
Have you gotten “your” Shinola watch? If not, I hear they are being given to “anyone” observed purchasing a Chinese translated copy of Hillary Clinton’s book “Hard Choices.”
Shinola is America’s most prolific producer of watches, which are more often made in Europe and Asia. It also produces bicycles, leather goods, journals, leather goods and pet toys.
Yes, THAT Shinola: The watch company’s namesake used to be a shoe polish that inspired the insult “You don’t know shit from Shinola.”
Its “name” comes from a World War II expression that name-checked the Shinola brand of shoe polish. A common “put-down” in the U.S. at the time was, “You don’t know shit from Shinola.”
The company acquired the trademark in 2011.
“I don’t need anybody to defend my record. My record speaks for itself”
“She’s not out of touch.”
Taxpayers will spend $944,000 to support Bill Clinton’s lifestyle in 2014
“$225,000? That’s obscene!”
“Is it more Downtown Abbey than it is America?”
