Bill Clinton: I don’t like it when people say Hillary Clinton is 'part of the establishment'

[NWCorona]

"Bill Clinton has fought criticisms that his wife and the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is part of the “establishment” following opponents’ claims that she has ties with Wall Street, has accepted speech money from various banks and has worked for most of her life within politics.

“The only thing I really dislike about this campaign is whenever somebody endorses Hillary, they get blasted on the email, on the internet, for being part of the establishment,” Mr Clinton said to a small crowd in New York. “It’s a pretty big establishment now.

“I mean it includes the Congressional Black Caucus, Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign, the League of Conservation Voters, several Hispanic organisations – most of the Irish – and I could go on and on.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/bill-clinton-i-don-t-like-it-when-people-say-hillary-clinton-is-part-of-the-establishment-a6981686.html

Sorry Bill, you and Hillary are a part of the establishment.

[haikugal]

1. Tough titty Bill...we don't like what's being done to us. Get over it.

[Politicalboi]

2. “It’s a pretty big establishment now.

Thanks to you asshole. This is just another reason we don't want another Clinton in the WH.

[MsFlorida]

3. Too bad Bill.....

N/t

[Skwmom]

4. The Clintons are the establishment. They really think people are stupid.

[JonathanRackham]

5. The Clinton's didn't start out that way.

But that's where they ended up.

A good example of money and power corrupting ones ethic and political soul.

[Betty Karlson]

6. Well this is true:

"The only thing I really dislike about this campaign is whenever somebody endorses Hillary, they get blasted on the email, on the internet, for being part of the establishment"

- and that is, Bill, because they are, just like your wife is. And like most of the 20th century, it is over and we are over it!

[Punkingal]

7. Guess what Bill...a lot of us no longer give a shit what you like or don't like.

[SamKnause]

9. Fucking A !!!!!

[SamKnause]

8. Tough fucking shit.

Still pretending they don't know what being part of the establishment is.

I am sick of the Bush family.

I am sick of the Clinton family.

[pdsimdars]

10. And EVERY group that has endorsed her it has NOT been the members, but the LEADERS

and the leaders ARE the establishment.
Every endorsement Bernie has received has been gotten by polling the MEMBERS.

You can try to wordsmith and weasel your way out of it, but the fact remains, Hillary is NOT 'of the people, by the people or, more importantly FOR THE PEOPLE.' And neither is Bill.

[Jefferson23]

11. lol Yea, she totally not part of the establishment. n/t

[Phlem]

12. Fucking waaa.

You are the establishment Bill.

[closeupready]

13. Does it depend on what the meaning of 'is' is? Those who trust this man

as someone who is being honest, and not angling to manipulate public opinion, are either very young, or very stupid.

He knows EXACTLY what that word means, and he knows for a FACT that they are both fundamentally ESTABLISHMENT. And as the establishment goes (for example, a branch of the government - Congress - that for 20+ years has held a public approval rating in the single digits), so goes the public's opinion of the Clinton's and their public service record.

[NWCorona]

14. Touché!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Too bad, Bill.

You and Hillary are the establishment. You're not even on the edges of it; you're smack in the middle. In fact, you've done a heck of a lot to help perpetrate and increase it. Goldman Sachs doesn't pay $250K for a speech by some obscure fringe character who will never be in a position to do their bidding.

[CalvinballPro]

16. Uh-oh, Bill said "the Irish." Cue 500 GDP threads about how "Bernie so Gaelic." nt

[Avalux]

17. Most of the Irish??

Where did he come up with that one?

I expected him to say that people who think she's part of the establishment are sexist.

[jillan]

19. He's losing it! Lol.

[NWCorona]

20. Yeah that was definitely a weird comment

[BuelahWitch]

28. Well, my dead Irish FDR Democrat Grandpa surely wouldn't vote for her

Maybe he's been haunting Bill's dreams!

[Avalux]

32. Maybe he is! My 93 year old Irish grandmother will be voting for Bernie in PA.

I think Bill is losing it, seriously.

[jillan]

18. Oh too bad!

[sofa king]

21. Oh, come the hell on, people!

Bill Clinton is the only President to be impeached in 140 years--for lying about a blowjob during an unprecedented era of peace and economic expansion. Does that make him part of "the establishment"?

The next President was the most criminal President we ever had, and he got away with it all. That definitely makes him part of "the establishment," doesn't it?

Mrs. Clinton has been savaged in the press every goddamned day for twenty-five fucking years. There is an entire net of hundreds of radio stations devoted to destroying her. There is a billion-dollar television network devoted to destroying her. There are billionaires who have devoted decades to destroying her.

Half of you fools are doing the work of Republicans by attempting to destroy her.

The establishment does not pervert the mechanism of democracy to try to steal the Presidency from one of their own, as they did with Bill Clinton. They do pervert the mechanism of democracy to steal the Presidency for one of their own. They'll violate everything sacred to protect that bastard, too, and so they did for George W. Bush.

I'm saying this not because I support Mrs. Clinton, though I am going to support her if she wins the nomination. I've been trying to stay out of it but bullshit like this pisses me off. So let me say it in bold and be done with it:

THE ESTABLISHMENT DOES NOT DEVOTE DECADES TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR OWN.

So stop it, please!

[NWCorona]

23. None of that changes the fact that the Clinton's are part of the establishment.

[Punkingal]

25. I don't feel sorry for them.

And if you can't see the MSM shilling for her daily then I feel sorry for you.

[Babel_17]

22. Dear President Clinton, lol (eom)

[Vinca]

24. I thought this had to be an Onion piece.

Yike! Bill . . . you are so out of touch. (I think that happens when you're part of the establishment.)

[NWCorona]

27. I thought it was satire as well but nope!

[Ino]

26. News Flash: Bill Doesn't Like Something

Bill, stop pretending you haven't used the full force of your Establishment tentacles to buy/bribe/threaten/call in favors for all those endorsements.

[Merryland]

29. Many years ago, my spouse shook Bill Clinton's hand...

He said it was the softest hand he had ever shaken, a hand that had not done a lick of work in its life. (and this was around the time of the Monica Lewinsky deal, so ewwwwwwww)

[CharlotteVale]

31. LOL! Bill Clinton patted me on the shoulder once. I have to admit I thought he had

lots of charisma. But that was over 20 years ago before I really knew how awful he is.

[Merryland]

34. He did have some kind of charisma - a profound sense of entitlement will do that to a person.

I believe Hillary exudes the same creepy charisma. One doesn't like to imagine making deals with the devil, but...

[CharlotteVale]

36. I met her once, too - and she was cold and unfriendly. Shocking, since

- oh the irony, but this was 16 years ago - I told her I hoped she would run for president one day!

Plus it was in a bookstore full of people who had bought one of her books so you'd think she would at least have put on a friendly act.

[Merryland]

37. yes, we were all smitten once upon a time, long long ago.

[NWCorona]

33. Hillary hands are tougher than Bill's

I'm positive about that. That man has zero self control.

[CharlotteVale]

30. You and your wife make me sick, Bill. Don't give a flying fuck what like or don't like.

[appalachiablue]

35. My, isn't that a shame..

[closeupready]

39. lol, that is FUNNY, hehe

[kristopher]

38. Not just a part; they're the core of the Established

How American Corporations Transformed from Producers to Predators
Over the last 30 years, corporations have turned on the 99 percent. Here's how it happened and how to fight back.

By William Lazonick / AlterNet April 1, 2012


Corporations are not working for the 99 percent. But this wasn’t always the case. In a special five-part series, William Lazonick, professor at UMass, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, and a leading expert on the business corporation, along with journalist Ken Jacobson and AlterNet’s Lynn Parramore, will examine the foundations, history and purpose of the corporation to answer this vital question: How can the public take control of the business corporation and make it work for the real economy?

In 2010, the top 500 U.S. corporations – the Fortune 500 – generated $10.7 trillion in sales, reaped a whopping $702 billion in profits, and employed 24.9 million people around the globe. Historically, when these corporations have invested in the productive capabilities of their American employees, we’ve had lots of well-paid and stable jobs.

That was the case a half century ago....

http://www.alternet.org/story/154745/how_american_corporations_transformed_from_producers_to_predators

[99Forever]

40. Shut your establishment pie hole Bubba.

Nobody with any decency gives a shit what you like .

[beedle]

41. It's true

All those activist $250K speeches to Wall St.
All those fundraising events with the grassroots millionaires and billionaires.
All that radical endorsement bribery of Democratic party 'dignataries'
All the organic fundraising through state party to Hillary Liberty fund money laundering
All that viral marketing through the MSM.
And most of all, all that abstinence and fidelity by sticking strictly to blow-jobs.