And before the partisan bullshit starts, I also lambasted Hillary for this.
Why would you demand any payment for speaking at a fund raiser? Okay, if you have transportation costs I don't find it unreasonable to ask to have them covered, but that's it, and in Bush's case, he's a multi-millionaire so big ******* deal if he has to spend a couple thousand getting there. Consider the cost his donation. After all, how many of these veterans now need this charity because of the war he sent them into?
George Bush charged 100k to be at event for veterans wounded in the Iraq war Daily Mail Online
They all do it and it is wrong. Difference is W isn't running.
"Running" is irrelevant. The difference is, he's the reason they're injured in the first place.
That's like me burning your house down and you've got no place to live, so the town gets a charity event together and I offer to show up there --- for a substantial fee. It adds insult to injury.
As the article illustrates:
'You sent me to war, I was doing what you told me to do, gladly for you and our country and I have no regrets. But it’s kind of a slap in the face,' raged former Marine Eddie Wright on ABC News.
Wright lost both hands in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004 after being hit by a rocket.
Also further down the page, this is interesting:
former president Clinton, and his predecessor George H W Bush, both claim they have never charged a charity.