NONE of the Republican candidates have given paid speeches to Wall Street either - just Hillary.

[FreakinDJ]

Rubio hasn’t given paid speeches to Wall st. Kasisch hasn’t given paid speeches to Wall Street, Cruz hasn’t given paid speeches to Wall Street and Trump IS Wall Street and certainly isn’t giving any paid speeches to them.

Time for Hillary to release the transcripts. She said she would release them AFTER every candidate has released theirs. Well it is done. They are released. It was a good bet while it lasted. Now she must own up to her promise and release them now.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/24/1490821/-NONE-of-the-Republican-candidates-have-given-paid-speeches-to-Wall-Street-either-just-Hillary

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, FreakinDJ.

[msongs]

2. she uses her income for good causes, they don't nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. Oh how the respected have fallen.

[jfern]

6. Like a $3 million wedding for Chelsea?

[rhett o rick]

19. No she doesn't. Where are you getting this schit? Her and Bill have $150,000,000 that they

amassed in a very short time. All came with quid pro quo attached. And their foundation is their retirement plan.

Mammon: The greedy pursuit of wealth or the worship of it.

[reformist2]

28. Good causes, like her own presidential campaign?

[FreakinDJ]

42. The Clintons are just plain sleazy

[HooptieWagon]

53. Republicans don't have super Ds that have to be bought.

[Politicalboi]

3. Don't nobody hold their breath

She won't disclose those. She is a LIAR. She never had any intention of showing us those transcripts. Let's hope the FBI ends this once and for all, She can read her transcripts in jail if anyone would listen.

[Zira]

4. I have to wonder why she does all these speeches then claims that she's bad at campaiging

which is her excuse for not having rallies. You'd think she'd be used to standing up and talking in front of people.

[jfern]

7. She'd bad at pretending she gives a shit about the worthless peons

[Zira]

11. +1

And you can constantly see the cracks in her shell when she's faking it. She suddenly goes off on them and starts the finger pointing and the yelling. How dare the peons question her!

[Autumn]

24. ^^^^THIS^^^^ Right here.

[daleanime]

31. +1

[FreakinDJ]

55. +1000

[840high]

8. k/r

[LonePirate]

9. I hope there is nothing of substance when she releases them because I am sick of hearing DUers bitch

I personally don't give a damn what is inside them but the incessant, petty shouting on here to release them has me hoping there is nothing in them. Now that would be fun to behold.

[rhett o rick]

20. LOL. I think that's the point. There is nothing in them. She got paid $50 million for

just showing up. It's the corrupt culture of big money running our government.

[LonePirate]

25. The typical person bitching about the transcripts has no concept about the dollars involved

The amount she received per speech is essentially the equivalent of a penny to the people paying her. For the typical American, the numbers may seem large but for the billionaires paying for the speeches, the amounts are less than trivial.

Then you have the completely idiotic belief that the Wall Street people are bribing her but she gave speeches to plenty of other people and organizations and yet nobody ever complains about them or assumes those people are bribing her.

There is so much absurd paranoia and idiocy from the people clamoring for the transcripts that it would almost be humorous but these people have developed a disturbing psychosis about them.

[senz]

26. What do you think of Bernie's having mentioned the speeches?

[LonePirate]

30. Bernie's not obsessed with the speeches unlike some of his deranged supporters.

[AgingAmerican]

52. And you have a Bernie avatar?

[LonePirate]

62. You can like the candidate but recognize he has a ton of deranged supporters.

[DemocracyDirect]

56. Speeches to TransCanada Pipelines (Keystone) and Campgrounds using special Visas...

... are disturbing also.

Wall Street is just the tip of the iceburg.

But you are right that for them this is standard operating procedure.
The people who really matter are the ones who pay.
And this is a war between our people who pay and their people who pay.
The rest is just electioneering.

[uponit7771]

10. Cause they don't know what the fuck they're talking about? ... Yes, Hillary is smarter, she at least

... can outline a plan for her platform

[farleftlib]

12. Hahahahaha-she's busted

Except she's still not going to release them. A woman who sets up a secret email account to escape accountability because she's using her SoS job to illegally enrich herself, is not about to let a silly thing like a valid reason to show her hand. Accountability? Hell no, that's for suckers.

[FreakinDJ]

13. Republicans already know this and they are going to crush her

[senz]

27. So let's not let them crush her. Let's nominate Bernie.

[doc03]

14. Wouldn't it be illegal for a Senator or Congressman to give a paid

speech to Wall Street. Hillary Clinton was not in an elected government position. Kasich was an investment
banker employed by Lehman Brothers. Doesn't Ted Cruz's wife work on Wall Street? The Donald is Wall Street.

[FreakinDJ]

15. That is a Political Fact

[doc03]

16. Facts don't matter with these people, read my post on

edit.

[rhett o rick]

21. But of course she was legal. The Rich Fat Cats made the laws that make it legal.

She and Bill have amassed over $150,000,000 from corps and billionaires that expect quid pro quo. The fact that it might be legal doesnt mean she will help anyone other than those Fat Cats that you seem to side with over those struggling among us.

[doc03]

22. So you have declared her guilty of breaking a law before she breaks it.

That's real Democratic values.

[smiley]

48. It's called moral values.

She seems to be lacking in them.

[jfern]

17. All her opponents have to go out and give paid speeches and then release the transcripts

before Hillary will consider releasing hers

[COLGATE4]

18. Who the fuck would pay to hear

anything any of these fools had to say?

[dana_b]

23. #ReleaseTheTranscripts

Good! Put the pressure on her BIG time now! There's NO reason for her not to do so.

Or, maybe there is....

[LiberalFighter]

29. They aren't private citizens either.

[FreakinDJ]

39. It is an ethics violation for sitting Senators to give paid speeches

[LiberalFighter]

49. Exactly!

Government employees can't either.

[FreakinDJ]

50. So why is the media silent about the this

[NanceGreggs]

32. Uh, guys ...

I realize how desperate things are right now, with HRC still so far ahead in votes and delegates and all.

But at this point, you've run out of time. The magical transcripts you're so sure would turn things around for Bernie wouldn't a change a thing now.

Bernie is about to get his ass kicked in NY and beyond. You've seen the polls in the upcoming contests, and they do not bode well for BS.

It's time to stop hoping that the magical transcripts will show up, containing bombshell after bombshell that will sink HRC's campaign overnight and catapult your guy to victory.

If it hasn't sunk in yet, Hillary is NOT going to release those transcripts. And all the yelling, foot-stomping, crying, whinging and being poutraged isn't going to accomplish anything.

But hey, you can always go back to your fallback position - hoping that Hillary is indicted.

I think it so sad that the Bernie Revolution, which was going to capture the voters with its lofty ideals, is down to hoping his opponent will falter in some catastrophic way, simply because it's the only hope Bernie has.

[KPN]

33. This will eat her alive in the GE should she make it that far --

unless there's nothing in them for her to be worried about in which case, why wouldn't she release them now?

Oh yeah, no one else is being held to that standard! Too funny! No one else running qualifies for that standard because they haven't given speeches to Wall Street.

[mhatrw]

34. She'll release them when all the other corporate gigolos do!

whoops!

[tirebiter]

35. Because the economy sucks when Repulicans rule

They're bad for Corporations. They're bad for individuals. The data is there. They don't get paid to speak because they got nothin' to say. Zilch. Nada.

[FreakinDJ]

37. Doesn't excuse Hillary from lying to the American people

I'm sure she has looked and knows she is the only one who gave paid speeches

[Scuba]

36. Here weasel words covered that. None of the 2040 candidates have released their speeches.

She didn't specify "in this election."

[jfern]

38. True, Chelsea Clinton hasn't released her transcripts

[John Poet]

40. She's bought and paid for.

I don't have to say the words.

[FreakinDJ]

41. Why hasn't the media called her out on it

Her campaign staff has certainly been asked the question by the media

[Vinca]

43. Hillary pretty much dominates the golden chicken circuit (as opposed to the rubber chicken circuit).

[polly7]

44. I suspect she's probably said more than a few things that would anger people those corporations

have hurt.

But, she could be speaking about making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and it wouldn't make a difference; the fact that she took all those millions knowing she'd be running for president means those who paid her DO have a stake in decisions made once she got in. It's not her words they're paying for, it's her actions.



"I’m the ‘most transparent public official in modern times"

[FreakinDJ]

45. Insurance of No Prosecutions

Which means the Cost of Doing Business - $5.6 Billion in fines is merely passed on to the consumer

[polly7]

46. Yes, that's just ridiculous. There should have been some/many in prison. nt.

[FreakinDJ]

47. In any other country they are prosecuted

Tells you how corrupt the system has become

- Bernie is right

[Octafish]

51. But SHE believes it. And if you say something over and over enough times...

...others will believe it to be so. If enough do, who knows? It may reach the George Costanza threshold, where reality flips and the lie becomes true-enough because if you believe it to be true, by definition, it can't be a lie.

[FreakinDJ]

54. Right out of the KKKarl Rove Play Book

[Octafish]

57. Where would she get such an idea?

[FreakinDJ]

58. Hillary definitely has propensity towards Hiring Republicans

Some thing we can all look forward to in a Clinton Administration

[EndElectoral]

59. This will follow her into the GE if she's the nominee. What a mess.

She'll continually be laughed at for touting transparency, while refusing to release these speeches.

[FreakinDJ]

60. The tape will ne played over and over and over again

She talked herself into a corner she can't back out of

[glowing]

61. Wouldn't it have been illegal or seen as bribery if they had taken paid speeches from anywhere

because 3 of them were/ are elected officials.. And of course, Trump is the wealthy person most of these guys pandered to in the past for an endorsement.... Have they gone to these companies in an "official" capacity to give a speech to them or "visit" with the company? I'm a Bernie supporter, however, narrowing the confines of the topic to "paid speeches" vs speeches, etc, may be a bit more in line. AND I'm not sure the ethics rules regarding making speeches or having private meetings with CEO's or corporate board members and what the public is allowed to know? Congress makes their own rules for themselves, so I'm just not sure?

On Edit: I would assume that her speeches and the Republicans ham handing with these Wall St probably sound very, very similar.

[FreakinDJ]

63. Hillary would be calling for a Senate Ethics Violation if they had