Their roles have reversed themselves

From The Washington Post:

Former president Bill Clinton, who came to the White House with modest means and left deeply in debt, has collected nearly $40 million in speaking fees over the past six years, according to interviews and financial disclosure statements filed by his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

Now personally I have no problem with anyone making money so long as they're not using force or fraud to get it. Fraud as in identity theft or confidence games and force as in sticking a gun in someone's face and taking their wallet, or sending out men with guns (the IRS) to rob others on your behalf.

But here is where it gets interesting:

Many of Bill Clinton's six-figure speeches have been made to companies whose employees and political action committees have been among Hillary Clinton's top backers in her Senate campaigns. The New York investment giant Goldman Sachs paid him $650,000 for four speeches in recent years. Its employees and PAC have given her $270,000 since 2000 -- putting it second on the list of her most generous political patrons.

The banking firm Citigroup, whose employees and PAC have been Hillary Clinton's top source of campaign donations, with more than $320,000, paid her husband $250,000 for a speech in France in 2004. Last year, it committed $5.5 million for Clinton's Global Initiative to help encourage entrepreneurship and financial education among the poor.

Back in the days when Bill Clinton was Attorney General and then Governor of Arkansas if you wanted to bribe him you didn't need to meet with him or one of his people in a dark and smokey bar and slide an envelope of cash under the table. All you had to do was retain the legal services of his wife Hillary, of the Rose Law Firm.

This is how Hillary, whose legal work from the period shows a competent, workman like lawyer, but not a brilliant legal mind engaged in extraordinarily difficult legal work, was able to make multiples of the average lawyer's yearly income.

Hillary Clinton spent years serving as Bill's "bag man" for bribe money and illegal campaign contributions. Now it seems that Bill is returning the favor.