Hillary comforts the crying bankers.
Ordinarily these masters of the universe might have groaned at the idea of a politician taking the microphone. In the contentious years since the crash of 2008, they’ve grown wearily accustomed to being called names—labeled “fat cats" by President Obama and worse by those on the left—and gotten used to being largely shunned by Tea Party Republicans for their association with the Washington establishment. And of course there are all those infuriating new rules and regulations, culminating this week with the imposition of the so-called Volcker Rule to make risky trades by big banks illegal.
But Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop. And indeed Goldman’s Jim O’Neill, the laconic Brit who heads the bank’s asset management division, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank. (Brave, perhaps, but also well-compensated: Clinton’s minimum fee for paid remarks is $200,000).
Certainly, Clinton offered the money men—and, yes, they are mostly men—at Goldman’s HQ a bit of a morale boost. “It was like, ‘Here’s someone who doesn’t want to vilify us but wants to get business back in the game,’” said at an attendee. “Like, maybe here’s someone who can lead us out of the wilderness.”
Clinton’s remarks were hardly a sweeping absolution for the sins of Wall Street, whose leaders she courted assiduously for financial support over a decade, as a senator and a presidential candidate in 2008. But they did register as a repudiation of some of the angry anti-Wall Street rhetoric emanating from liberals rallying behind the likes of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). And perhaps even more than that, Clinton’s presence offered a glimpse to a future in which Wall Street might repair its frayed political relationships.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/wall-street-white-house-republicans-lament-of-the-plutocrats-101047.html#ixzz2nE8CPfhJ
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But I don't know what I'm going to do if she is the Dem nominee. 
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and downsized my life to match my new income / lack of income. Bad me for not running up huge debts so banks could steal my home.
Obviously, the thing to do now is cut social security just as I'm heading toward retirement, so that I won't be able to live this downsized lifestyle, so I can be thrown into the street and forced to beg for scraps until I have the decency to die.
Fuck the banks, and nothing good to say about Hillary for kissing their gold-plated butts. 
comforting banksters...how unexpected .
Can you feel the excitement people?
In all seriousness, if Hillary keeps this up she won't get my vote in the primaries. She probably will keep this up so she's pretty much lost me.
I'd rather just formally sign away the country to corporations and make it official. She's a mega corporatist, the Rethugs will nominate their mega corporatist, and we have zero choice but to give even more of the country to corporations. 
No way. Nominating Hillary will be my last straw.
It's not enough that they own the game and have it rigged in their favor regardless of the outcome...they want the rest of us to smile nicely at them as they fuck us over.
Of the Banksters. For the Banksters. By the Banksters. 
Yawn......
And how much will your liege Clinton get done with a divided Congress and more Republican seats if she manages to get into the WH? Then what?
If you think that there will be NO criticism of your darling Clinton before and after 2016, think again.
Go back to sleep.
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"Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop. And indeed Goldman’s Jim O’Neill, the laconic Brit who heads the bank’s asset management division, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank. (Brave, perhaps, but also well-compensated: Clinton’s minimum fee for paid remarks is $200,000)."
& Rec !!!