Release of Clinton's Wall Street Speeches Could End Her Candidacy for President

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Published on
Friday, April 15, 2016
by Huffington Post

Release of Clinton's Wall Street Speeches Could End Her Candidacy for President
But don’t just take my word for it...
by Seth Abramson

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.

In fact, it appears they’d cause enough trauma that Clinton would rather publicly stonewall — to the point of being conspicuously, uncomfortably evasive — in public debate after public debate, to endure damning editorial after damning editorial, and to leave thousands and thousands of voters further doubting her honesty and integrity, all to ensure that no one outside Goldman Sachs, and certainly no voter who wasn’t privy to those closed-door speeches, ever hears a word of what she said in them.

The real experts on this topic are the friends and acquaintances of Hillary’s who, for whatever reason, have chosen to be candid about what they believe is in those speeches. And it’s only that candor that helps explain the longest-running mystery of the Democratic primary — a mystery that’s been ongoing for over seventy days — which is this: why would anyone pay $225,000 for an hour-long speech by a private citizen who (at the time) claimed to have no interest in returning to politics?

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.”

Release of the transcripts would therefore, it appears, have three immediate — and possibly fatal — consequences for Clinton’s presidential campaign:

1.It would reveal that Clinton lied about the content of the speeches at a time when she suspected she would never have to release them, nor that their content would ever be known to voters.

2.It would reveal that the massive campaign and super-PAC contributions Clinton has received from Wall Street did indeed, as Sanders has alleged, influence her ability to get tough on Wall Street malfeasance either in Congress or behind closed doors.

3.It would reveal that Clinton’s policy positions on — for instance — breaking up “too-big-to-fail” banks are almost certainly insincere, as they have been trotted out merely for the purposes of a presidential campaign.

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

[Buzz Clik]

1. LOL!

[BreakfastClub]

2. +1 I was thinking the same thing. nt

[Hortensis]

5. Agree. Americans want Wall Street under control,

not destroyed. Her reassurances to the financial industry that she recognizes its critical role in America and has no intention of burning down Wall Street will be reassuring to most voters too.

The extremist barn-burners on both the far right and far left will just have to put their matches away.

[grossproffit]

3. Seth must be HA Goodman's alter ego.

[libdem4life]

7. Typical one-liner evasion of the facts...or refutation of same.

Thus, likely the truth. I wish the HRC folk would refute some of these...rather than throwing out whatever. That's when you know for pretty sure it's correct.

If not, then correct it. Otherwise, keep the cute quips off the board. They make one look silly.

[hedgehog]

4. K&R

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. So could this, but her supporters support this...

vimeo.com/163178551

[COLGATE4]

8. More 'Fiction and Fact from Seth Abramson's Almanac'

brought to you by Seth, the Boy Wonder English Teacher who by night dons his supercolumnists' cape and mask and delivers himself of another anti-Hillary diatribe, based solely on his own anti-Hillary bias.

[bobthedrummer]

9. It's Al From's Democratic Party, the rest of us just live here. The takeover. (madfloridian 2015)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027191121

Pander that fact for a moment.