2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: "Powerful interests...hate my guts, and I welcome their hatred" [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)In California, what I have heard is that Hillary will be the candidate because she is the only one who can raise enough money.
I hear that from the same mouths that berate Citizens United.
From my point of view, if you really oppose Citizens United, then you back the candidate who shows he opposes it by not taking big amounts of corporate money either in speaking fees or campaign donations.
That is yet another reason that I support Bernie. He is not getting the big corporate donations and speaking fees.
I think the Clinton Foundation is a wonderful thing. Sounds like they do good work. But it is to me unseemly to be accepting donations to your charity with one hand while shaking voters' hands as a candidate for public office with the other. Even if the Clintons are entirely careful and above board about distancing themselves from their donors and not working in elected office to please their donors, there is still somehow an appearance of corruption in what Hilary is doing as she has requested donations to the Foundation from people who will be wanting favors should she be elected president. That she does not see the problem suggests to me that she does not understand how corruption works. She sees herself as a good person (and she no doubt is) who wouldn't do anything "wrong" so it's OK. The problem is that when we compromise ourselves by accepting gifts whether or ourselves or for a family charity, we just don't realize how that compromises our judgment, how it subtly influences our decisions or how others will perceive that we have been influenced.
There are big problems with Hillary's candidacy.
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