Release of Clinton's Wall Street Speeches Could End Her Candidacy for President But don’t just take

[silvershadow]

The reason you and I will never see the transcripts of Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street fat-cats — and the reason she’s established a nonsensical condition for their release, that being an agreement by members of another party, involved in a separate primary, to do the same — is that if she were ever to release those transcripts, it could end her candidacy for president.

Please don’t take my word for it, though.

Nor even that of the many neutral observers in the media who are deeply troubled by Clinton’s lack of transparency as to these well-compensated closed-door events — a lack of transparency that has actually been a hallmark of her career in politics.

Nor do we even need to take Clinton’s word for it — as we could certainly argue that her insistence that none of these transcripts ever be seen by the public is itself a confession that her words would cause significant trauma to her presidential bid.

more: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/15/release-clintons-wall-street-speeches-could-end-her-candidacy-president

[Thinkingabout]

1. If you hurry you may be able to hire Hillary to give you a speech for $250,000, the rates

will increase after she is has served as president.

[Dragonfli]

2. Unfortunately, I am too poor to buy a politician, also I have too much integrity to even want to. nt

[Thinkingabout]

4. She is not being bought, Sanders does not have a time where she was bought with influence

from "speaking" to a group, in fact all of these speeches are after she left the position of SOS. They are fund raisers, she gave the money from Goldman Sachs to the Clinton foundation which in turn gives to those in need and to assist in health issues. I understand being poor, I also help the needy by donations of items, money and time.

[Octafish]

10. So, who else gets paid $250,000 for a speech?

Why do you think it would make sense to spend money on her AFTER she leaves the Oval Office?

[m-lekktor]

6. I wouldn't walk across the street to hear her speak for free.

she is vile.

[Punkingal]

5. A Clinton surrogate said this:

1. Former Nebraska Governor and Senator Bob Kerrey (Clinton surrogate)

“Making the transcripts of the Goldman speeches public would have been devastating....[and] when the GOP gets done telling the Clinton Global Initiative fund-raising and expense story, Bernie supporters will wonder why he didn’t do the same....[As for] the email story, it’s not about emails. It is about [Hillary] wanting to avoid the reach of citizens using the Freedom of Information Act to find out what their government is doing, and then not telling the truth about why she did.”

He's in her corner, and he said that. WOW

[thesquanderer]

9. More of the money quotes:

2. Goldman Sachs Employee #1 (present at one of the speeches)

“[The speech] was pretty glowing about [Goldman Sachs]. It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a ‘rah-rah’ speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.”

3. Goldman Sachs Employee #2 (present at one of the speeches)

“In this environment, [what she said to us at Goldman Sachs] could be made to look really bad.”

4. Goldman Sachs Executive or Client #1 (present at one of the speeches)

“Mrs. Clinton didn’t single out bankers or any other group for causing the 2008 financial crisis. Instead, she effectively said, ‘We’re all in this together, we’ve got to find our way out of it together.’”

5. Paraphrase of Several Attendees’ Accounts From The Wall Street Journal

“She didn’t often talk about the financial crisis, but when she did, she almost always struck an amicable tone. In some cases, she thanked the audience for what they had done for the country. One attendee said the warmth with which Mrs. Clinton greeted guests bordered on ‘gushy.’ She spoke sympathetically about the financial industry.”

6. Goldman Sachs Employee #3 (present at one of the speeches)

“It was like, ‘Here’s someone who doesn’t want to vilify us but wants to get business back in the game. Like, maybe here’s someone who can lead us out of the wilderness.’”

7. Paraphrase of Several Attendees’ Accounts From Politico

“Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, 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, ‘We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it.’”

links at source

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. One way or another, at least a partial transcript will eventually surface...

...even if the republicans have to write it themselves.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. She hasn't even released paraphrased, edited bullshit ones.

We do simply have to trust her that the transcripts she produces are the real deal, right?

She's released nothing because the GOP has them on tape and will use them in October ads.