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DVRacer

(707 posts)
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 12:28 AM Jan 2016

Clinton's speech problem

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/clintonss-200000-an-hour_b_9069720.html

The millions of dollars in personal payments Wall Street and other business interests have paid to the Clintons at least raise questions about how serious Hillary's promises to reign in Wall Street should be taken by voters.

And even Democratic voters who otherwise prefer Hillary should worry about what bombshell remarks from her secretive Wall Street speeches might be released by Republican dirty-tricksters during the general election campaign, if she's the nominee, and help put Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, or another right-wing Republican in the White House.

Art Garfunkel told CNN that he and Paul Simon allowed Bernie Sanders to use their song "America" in a campaign commercial because of Hillary's speaking fees.

So I ask again, what does $250,000 an hour from a Wall Street bank buy from a politician?

If it's not special access, the ability of Wall Street lobbyists to help write financial legislation and regulations, and the avoidance of criminal prosecution, both past and future, then banks' shareholders haven't been getting their money's worth and should fire their $20 million a year billionaire CEOs who've been paying millions of dollars to the Clintons.
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Clinton's speech problem (Original Post) DVRacer Jan 2016 OP
It seems so obvious, doesn't it, but people see and hear what they want Samantha Jan 2016 #1
Let's keep up the pressure to get transcripts of her Wall St. speeches dreamnightwind Jan 2016 #2
yes and I don't see the Washington Post asking for them Rosa Luxemburg Jan 2016 #3

Samantha

(9,314 posts)
1. It seems so obvious, doesn't it, but people see and hear what they want
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 12:30 AM
Jan 2016

to see and hear. The rest is a blank.

Sam

dreamnightwind

(4,775 posts)
2. Let's keep up the pressure to get transcripts of her Wall St. speeches
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:15 AM
Jan 2016

The public deserves to know what she is telling them. K & R.

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