It is loaded with cold, hard facts.
"Hillary Clinton famously told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in 2014 that she and Bill Clinton left the White House after his second term “dead broke.” But apparently, Citigroup felt they were a good investment. According to PolitiFact, Citigroup provided a $1.995 million mortgage to allow the Clintons to buy their Washington, D.C. residence in 2000...
Citigroup has also committed $5.5 million to the Clinton Global Initiative, a charity run by the Clintons. It has also paid enormous speaking fees to Bill Clinton.
What has Citigroup gotten from its outsized support of the Clintons? Bill Clinton is the President who repealed the most important investor protection legislation of the past century, the Glass-Steagall Act, an outcome heavily lobbied for by Citigroup. Hillary Clinton has signaled to Wall Street that she will not push to have the Glass-Steagall Act restored...
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One of Hillary’s strengths according to the Times’ endorsement is that she has engaged in a “lifelong fight for women,” a statement that only resonates in some Orwellian universe intractably mired in Newspeak.
Hillary Clinton is the woman who stood by her man as multiple women came forward to accuse him of adultery or sexual assaults. Hillary Clinton is the woman who served as First Lady as Bill Clinton eviscerated the lives of poor children and single mothers by enacting welfare reform, a program so draconian that Senator Edward Kennedy called it “legislative child abuse” and voted against it.
As a result of Bill Clinton’s handiwork in the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, millions more women and children and families were thrown into poverty during the financial crash; 10 million people were forced from their homes through foreclosures, while Bill and Hillary’s rich campaign supporters became even richer – right along with the Clintons.
According to the Washington Post, in less than a year and a half, Hillary and Bill Clinton earned over $25 million in speaking fees, a significant portion of which came from Wall Street firms. In 2012, Hillary’s last full year as Secretary of State, Bill Clinton socked away an astonishing $16.3 million in speaking fees."
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How is it that HRC - promoting DUers are turning a blind eye to this?
Do you really still believe that Hillary is more pro-woman than pro-corporate? More pro-woman than SBS?
And after reading the numerous posts that show her significant lapses in judgment (Iraq, using less secure email server for SOS communications, etc.) and SBS' lifelong successes, consistent "for the people" voting, and good relationships even in a congress that has opposed his populist principles (e.g., negotiating with Rethugs to successfully get inner city clinics in ACA), how do you still trust her more to be the best leader for our party?. Doesn't integrity matter? I have read your posts for months coming to my own conclusions about these candidates but for the life of me, don't understand how you play down these facts as insignificant. I respect you all, just don't understand how passionate dems can stand by someone so self-serving when there's an alternative.
I don't hate Hillary and will work hard to GOTV for her if she wins the nom, as I do here in Northern VA every election cycle. I would just rather be working to change our corrupt system than to just prevent a crazy Trump from getting in.
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