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Showing Original Post only (View all)Once and for all: Hillary Clinton is NOT corrupted by Wall Street [View all]
Once and for all: Hillary Clinton is NOT corrupted by Wall Street
DAILYKOS
By PurplePower
2016/06/09 · 00:07
On numerous occasions, Bernie has mockingly said he would release the transcripts of his paid speeches. He then proceeds to flail his arms in the air, proud of the fact he has never been offered money for his thoughts [probably because he is rather ineffective at achieving progress]. Point is those that are in Congress are not legally allowed to give paid speeches due to conflict of interest. Hillary Rodham Clinton never gave a single paid speech while she served as First Lady, New York Senator, or Secretary of State.
The Wall Street speech attack is nothing more than a McCarthy-style smear. Character assassination. Innuendo.
Bernie was unable to give even one concrete example of how these speeches corrupted Hillary Clinton, proving this Wall Street attack is nothing more than an artful smear. Designed to raise questions where there are none. Innuendo at its finest.
However, some Bernie supporters use Hillarys bankruptcy vote as an example of her supposed corruption.
Hillary voted for a version of the bankruptcy bill after working with Congress to include amendments directly addressing Elizabeth Warrens concerns about the bill specifically those regarding women and children. The bill then went to the Republican-controlled House, which removed the amendments protecting women and children. When the bill was sent back to the Senate, Democrats [including Hillary] filibustered the bill. Later, a finalized version of the bill passed without Hillarys support.
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DAILYKOS
By PurplePower
2016/06/09 · 00:07
On numerous occasions, Bernie has mockingly said he would release the transcripts of his paid speeches. He then proceeds to flail his arms in the air, proud of the fact he has never been offered money for his thoughts [probably because he is rather ineffective at achieving progress]. Point is those that are in Congress are not legally allowed to give paid speeches due to conflict of interest. Hillary Rodham Clinton never gave a single paid speech while she served as First Lady, New York Senator, or Secretary of State.
The Wall Street speech attack is nothing more than a McCarthy-style smear. Character assassination. Innuendo.
Bernie was unable to give even one concrete example of how these speeches corrupted Hillary Clinton, proving this Wall Street attack is nothing more than an artful smear. Designed to raise questions where there are none. Innuendo at its finest.
However, some Bernie supporters use Hillarys bankruptcy vote as an example of her supposed corruption.
"My experience has been that whenever you closely examine the attacks on Hillary, whether they come from the left or the right, they break apart under scrutiny."
~Zachary Leven
Hillary voted for a version of the bankruptcy bill after working with Congress to include amendments directly addressing Elizabeth Warrens concerns about the bill specifically those regarding women and children. The bill then went to the Republican-controlled House, which removed the amendments protecting women and children. When the bill was sent back to the Senate, Democrats [including Hillary] filibustered the bill. Later, a finalized version of the bill passed without Hillarys support.
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Same can be said about Sanders and the gun industry, he voted to give them immunity already
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#6
+1, No more than Sanders is corrupted by the horrid gun industry in America. WS is the privileged ..
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#4
Bernie gets a D- from the NRA and doesn't take money from the gun industry. Hillary's taken millions
think
Jun 2016
#7
Until they finance his campaigns, or he votes for their rights, or those in his district that he
seabeyond
Jun 2016
#10
Which is still horrible, he should be getting an F- and that's not his lifetime avg. Either way
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#13
Wall Street banks helped cause the great recession which cost millions of Americans their jobs and
think
Jun 2016
#15
No, the boogymen of the privileged... good try at a strawman but fail. The dem base has other ...
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#17
Wall Street. Employees. Business owners affected and their employess. NY Senator, representative
seabeyond
Jun 2016
#9
Simple solution: Produce the transcripts and let them speak for themselves.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2016
#14
Soft corruption is currently legal and hard to prove. And now Hillary supporters proudly support it.
think
Jun 2016
#18
Sure. Goldman-Sachs gave her millions so she would tighten regulations and raise their taxes.
HooptieWagon
Jun 2016
#26
Hillary and Bill Clinton collected $143 million in speaker's fees over the 8 year period
PufPuf23
Jun 2016
#33
I'm sure the average voter will agree that over a hundred million was paid in speaking & consulting
Skwmom
Jun 2016
#36
she was corrupted by Walmart long before she started hanging with her bankster buddies.
hobbit709
Jun 2016
#42