Political pundits have pounced all over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s money “troubles.”

Now we hear that the former secretary of state and U.S. senator has donated her sizable speaking fees to the Clinton Foundation set up to do good work around the world.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/211366-clinton-speaking-fees-have-been-donated

This will end the argument, right? Guess again.

Clinton’s budding presidential campaign — she’s going to run for the office in 2016, it now seems clear — has been hit by a couple of serious gaffes. She declared in a TV interview that she and her husband were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001, then turned around and bought themselves a pretty nice house in New York, where she was elected to serve in the U.S. Senate. Then she noted that she and Bill Clinton were “really well off” the way a lot of rich people were well off. Try explaining that to a voter who’s struggling to feed his or her family.

The chatterers have been all over her for those two missteps.

So now it comes out that for the past year she’s donated her six-figure speaking fees to the foundation.

This is all a quite clumsy rollout for a presidential campaign that no doubt will be a formidable machine once it gets cranked up.

OK, so let’s get past the money gossip and get down to brass tacks: How, Mme. Secretary, are you going to protect the United States of America against our enemies around the world?