Harpootlian is Harry Reid on steroids.
Via Daily Mail
Hillary Clinton’s fellow Democrats smell blood in the water after her recent gaffes over her considerable wealth and they began pouncing on the presidential hopeful on Monday.
Dick Harpootlian, a former Democratic Party chairman in South Carolina, framed his insult in terms the fictional aristocratic Crawley family and their servants could understand.
‘I don’t know whether it’s just that she’s been “Madam Secretary” for so long, but she’s generating an imperial image,’ Harpootlian told The Washington Post.
‘She’s been living 30, going on 40 years with somebody bringing your coffee to you every morning. Is it more Downton Abbey than it is America?’
Harpootlian, like more than half of the Democratic establishment, backed President Barack Obama in his epic battle with Hillary for the 2008 presidential nomination.
He’s also an ally of Vice President Joe Biden, who took his cue Monday morning and asked the audience at the White House’s ‘Working Families Summit’ to cut him some slack because his personal wealth falls short of the Clintons’.
‘Don’t hold it against me that I don’t own a single stock or bond,’ Biden said. ‘Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts. But I got a great pension and I get a good salary.’
He declared himself ‘the poorest man in Congress.’ As vice president, Biden officially presides over the U.S. Senate and can cast tie-breaking votes.
Biden’s financial disclosures suggest a net worth of around $800,000, enough to put him in America’s often derided ‘1 per cent.’
But Bill and Hillary Clinton’s balance sheet has been estimated at between $50 and $100 million.