2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNYT: Mrs. Clinton, Show Voters Those Transcripts
Everybody does it, is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clintons latest defense for making closed-door, richly-paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain, and then refusing to release the transcripts.
A televised town hall on Tuesday was at least the fourth candidate forum in which Mrs. Clinton was asked about those speeches. Again, she gave a terrible answer, saying that she would release the transcripts if everybody does it, and that includes the Republicans.
In November, she implied that her paid talks for the Wall Street firms were part of helping them rebuild after the 9/11 attacks, which was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists.
In a debate with Bernie Sanders on Feb. 4, Mrs. Clinton was asked if she would release the transcripts, and she said she would look into it. Later in February, asked in a CNN town hall forum why she accepted $675,000 for speeches to Goldman Sachs, she got annoyed, shrugged, and said, Thats what they offered, adding that every secretary of state that I know has done that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/opinion/mrs-clinton-show-voters-those-transcripts.html?_r=0
Do we really want both the lack of transparency and the lack of accountability to the people that a Hillary Clinton presidency would represent?
Merryland
(1,134 posts)should have thought about this kind of crap before they endorsed her like a month ago. But maybe they're waking up.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)I'll bet it won't be helpful to your campaign. Admit it. You know it's bad, don't you?