There is a Monty Python sketch in which a hopelessly aristocratic gentleman played by Graham Chapman says that his surname is spelled "Throat-warbler-mangrove" but that it is pronounced "Luxury yacht." Similarly, when I see the name "Clinton" in print I immediately think it should be pronounced "Show-me-the-money."

To be sure there were a lot of rolled eyes and grimaces inside the beltway when Hillary declared somewhat hyperbolically in June of last year that she and her husband were dead broke and deeply in debt when they left the White House in January 2001. Even then the Clinton avarice was well known to observers, including pre-departure debates about what "gifts" to the presidency they could take with them. The impending division of the spoils of office spawned jokes about the First Family exiting with the White House silver tucked into its suitcases.