Here's the big story about Marco Rubio that has the New York Times, Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream media transfixed. Rubio and his wife started out poor. They had a great deal of debt including student loans and home mortgages. They used their credit cards a lot and sometime they carried over debt on those cards. And Marco Rubio had an American Express card supplied by the Florida Republican party for use for party expenses; Rubio sometimes charged personal expenses on that card and then paid for them himself at the end of the month. Are you horrified yet? I doubt it.
One thing I know for certain is that the average American will not hold it against Marco Rubio that he was poor and in debt. Nearly everyone has been there. How do we get the money to pay the bills this month? Rubio understands the problem; he's lived through it.
On the other hand, look at some of the other candidates. Donald Trump has been pushing the Rubio credit card/debt story. Trump, however, grew up extremely rich. He has no idea what it means to be poor. The other day, Trump told his "hard luck" story. The Donald said that when he was first starting out as a developer, his father lent him a million dollars but demanded that the money eventually get paid back. Trump meant to illustrate how tough things had been for him. In reality he was making clear that he was super-rich and had received every possible advantage.
Hillary Clinton is another who complains about her "poverty". She told us that she was "dead broke" when they left the White House. Bill Clinton had a contract that guaranteed him twelve million dollars for his memoirs at the time, but Hillary thought that was total poverty. There are very few Americans who can identify with Hillary's misery at having the prospect of only twelve million dollars.
I think that Trump made a big mistake taking on Rubio on this issue. Trump is proving to anyone paying attention that he is and always has been the spoiled rich guy. Rubio on the other hand, is a guy from a poor family who worked and struggled and made a success on his own. All those people across America who are also struggling want to know that the person in the Oval Office understands what their problems are.
One thing I know for certain is that the average American will not hold it against Marco Rubio that he was poor and in debt. Nearly everyone has been there. How do we get the money to pay the bills this month? Rubio understands the problem; he's lived through it.
On the other hand, look at some of the other candidates. Donald Trump has been pushing the Rubio credit card/debt story. Trump, however, grew up extremely rich. He has no idea what it means to be poor. The other day, Trump told his "hard luck" story. The Donald said that when he was first starting out as a developer, his father lent him a million dollars but demanded that the money eventually get paid back. Trump meant to illustrate how tough things had been for him. In reality he was making clear that he was super-rich and had received every possible advantage.
Hillary Clinton is another who complains about her "poverty". She told us that she was "dead broke" when they left the White House. Bill Clinton had a contract that guaranteed him twelve million dollars for his memoirs at the time, but Hillary thought that was total poverty. There are very few Americans who can identify with Hillary's misery at having the prospect of only twelve million dollars.
I think that Trump made a big mistake taking on Rubio on this issue. Trump is proving to anyone paying attention that he is and always has been the spoiled rich guy. Rubio on the other hand, is a guy from a poor family who worked and struggled and made a success on his own. All those people across America who are also struggling want to know that the person in the Oval Office understands what their problems are.
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