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The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

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Maureen Dowd
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 14
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Journalist
Washington
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Maureen Brigid Dowd
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