tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post8805186444878284396..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Hillary Clinton: Release the Goldman Sachs transcripts!Bud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-17081174885191074462016-02-06T17:40:39.006-08:002016-02-06T17:40:39.006-08:00Washington Post:
What Hillary Clinton should say ...Washington Post:<br /><br />What Hillary Clinton should say — but can’t — about her Wall Street speaking fees<br /><br />“Wall Street” isn’t one person who makes consistent decisions; it’s an entire industry. There are some liberals on Wall Street, too. George Soros donated $6 million to a super PAC supporting Clinton, but even though he’s in the finance industry, that doesn’t mean “Wall Street” is supporting her over Republicans. But it’s also true that Wall Street doesn’t view Clinton as quite the enemy she suggests. From the point of view of investment banks like Goldman Sachs, it’s complicated. They dislike and will fight against some things she supports, and there’s no question they’d rather have a Republican in the White House. But they’d also probably be less terrified by the thought of her as president than Sanders, who is more likely to press for not just Wall Street reform but also actual upheaval ... Sanders isn't wrong when he says Clinton’s speeches are just one more example of an inherently corrupt system. Raising money from Wall Street and giving speeches to Wall Street, as many candidates (both Democratic and Republican) do, does create personal relationships that the industry can call on later. It doesn’t mean there’s a quid pro quo, but it does mean that at some later date, the politicians in question might be willing to hear the bankers out when they make their case. That’s true even though the real influence Wall Street exercises, as it is with most powerful industries, comes from things that are largely invisible to the public, like lobbying Congress on the arcane details of securities law ... So if you want to know how Clinton would deal with Wall Street, there are better questions to ask than who she gave speeches to, like precisely what reforms she’d like to see beyond Dodd-Frank and what kind of people she’d appoint to key oversight positions in agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Sanders could ask those questions, and he’d probably find plenty to take issue with.<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/02/05/what-hillary-clinton-should-say-but-cant-about-her-wall-street-speaking-fees/<br /><br />Trump Pulled the Strings of Political Puppets<br /><br />http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/trump-pulled-strings-political-puppets-5792<br /><br /><br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-28180669198578979972016-02-05T22:28:33.257-08:002016-02-05T22:28:33.257-08:00From Wall Street on Parade:
The Hillary Clinton p...From Wall Street on Parade:<br /><br />The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has a new strategy to get Senator Bernie Sanders to shut up about the unseemly mountains of money Wall Street has showered on her and Bill Clinton throughout their careers: in campaign funds, in speaking fees, in home mortgages, and in donations to their charity, the Clinton Global Initiative. (Details here.) The new strategy is to effectively socialize Sanders to silence by embarrassing him every time he brings up the subject.<br /><br />It should be noted that other hedge fund billionaires, like George Soros and Paloma Partners’ David Sussman, have contributed over $10 million to Hillary’s Super Pac, Priorities USA, which raked in over $41 million last year, 90 percent of which came from a handful of super wealthy individuals. Sanders has no aligned Super Pac.)<br /><br />In 2012, Hillary’s last full year as Secretary of State, Bill Clinton socked away an astonishing $16.3 million in speaking fees.<br /><br />As a perfect example of how Hillary wants to tar Sanders as smearing her while drawing a dark curtain around the facts, MSNBC moderator Chuck Todd asked her if she would release the transcripts of all of her speeches to Wall Street firms. Hillary did not seem enthusiastic and offered only that she would look into it.<br /><br />http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/02/hillary-clinton-will-not-commit-to-releasing-transcripts-of-her-speeches-to-wall-street/Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-33251991604219016352016-02-05T20:18:45.124-08:002016-02-05T20:18:45.124-08:00Hillary Clinton said at the debate: “I went to Wal...Hillary Clinton said at the debate: “I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you’re going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.”<br /><br />WaPo Fact-Checker: Clinton said she would consider legislation if the voluntary proposals were not adopted. But when her ideas were not accepted, neither were her five proposed bills. None of them had co-sponsors (all but one) — and no Senate committee took action on them. She played little role in a major housing bill that became law in 2008. And her bill to curb corporate compensation also went nowhere.<br /><br />"I'M A PROGRESSIVE THAT LIKES TO GET THING DONE!" — Clinton's new political slogan.<br /><br />WaPo Fact-Checker: As far as reforming Wall Street, some experts have found her plan to be more comprehensive and effective than Sanders’s. She’s correct that Paul Krugman and Frank have supported her proposal (and Barney Frank actually advised her on drafting the plan). But Clinton and Sanders have both gotten support from a wide range of economists with PhDs, former and current government officials, and industry and think-tank representatives who have endorsed one plan over the other’s. And they both also received criticism from a range of experts as well. <br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-16051631199142742982016-02-05T19:55:35.236-08:002016-02-05T19:55:35.236-08:00Later in the debate, Clinton was more forceful tha...Later in the debate, Clinton was more forceful than ever in defending herself in the face of questions about her emails and an FBI security review. She called herself “100 percent confident” that the bureau's inquiry will not blow up her campaign.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-42073040206171456582016-02-05T19:54:34.740-08:002016-02-05T19:54:34.740-08:00The Washington Post:
Chuck Todd asked Clinton whe...The Washington Post:<br /><br />Chuck Todd asked Clinton whether she would release transcripts of the closed-door, paid speeches, which the campaign reportedly has in its possession. “I will look into it,” she said. Clinton has certainly been looking into it for a long time: “The Washington Post has repeatedly asked the campaign to release copies of Clinton’s paid speeches — most directly and pointedly for the last two weeks,” Glenn Kessler notes. “The Post specifically made the request on Jan. 23 and then again on Jan. 24. The request was renewed on Feb. 4, the morning of the MSNBC debate. Other news organizations have asked for copies as well. The silence has been deafening.”<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-86570065526911177562016-02-05T14:32:20.432-08:002016-02-05T14:32:20.432-08:00It would interesting to see what she had said to t...It would interesting to see what she had said to those bankers about the 47%Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-34196391474104969982016-02-05T14:06:32.638-08:002016-02-05T14:06:32.638-08:00Rachel Maddow quizzed Bernie Sanders about Clinton...Rachel Maddow quizzed Bernie Sanders about Clinton's big advantage in endorsements from fellow Democratic politicians from Vermont:<br /><br />"Secretary Clinton DOES represent the establishment. I represent — I hope — ordinary Americans; and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment."<br /><br />Clinton then played the gender card: "Honestly, Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment. And I've got to tell you that it is really quite amusing to me."<br /><br />In 1996, when Bernie Sanders faced Republican Susan Sweetser in a bid for reelection to the House, feminist Gloria Steinem traveled to Vermont to endorse Sanders. Another speaker, a female state senator, emphasized Sanders' feminist credentials. "As we know, to be a feminist a person does not have to be a woman," she said. "A feminist is a person who challenges the power structure of this country. Bernie Sanders is that kind of feminist."<br /><br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-55995376279796903602016-02-05T12:55:48.450-08:002016-02-05T12:55:48.450-08:00NBC: Clinton strategist #JoelBenenson said #Bernie...NBC: Clinton strategist #JoelBenenson said #BernieSanders was running most negative campaign in history. Hillary agreed.<br /><br />http://goo.gl/Fq7vRE<br /><br />#NBCNews is owned by Comcast whose VP #DavidCohen hosted a $2,700-a-plate fundraiser for #HillaryClinton<br /><br />http://goo.gl/CIuNf1Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-35989750095006834952016-02-05T12:37:08.140-08:002016-02-05T12:37:08.140-08:00Polls: Who won the 5th Democratic debate? (As of t...Polls: Who won the 5th Democratic debate? (As of this comment)<br /><br />Bernie did, in all polls, by landslides (just like every other debate)<br /><br />Huffington Post: Bernie Sanders Sweeps Online Polls After Dominating Fifth Democratic Debate<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-hanley/bernie-sanders-sweeps-onl_b_9164916.html<br /><br />I found more polls that weren't even listed at the HuffPo --- all with similar results -- Bernie wins by landslides.<br /><br />70,857 Votes<br />Bernie Sanders 86 %<br />Hillary Clinton 14 %<br /><br />http://time.com/4208867/democratic-debate-fifth-new-hampshire-poll-survey/<br /><br />Bernie Sanders 89.99% (5,060 votes)<br />Hillary Clinton 10.01% (563 votes)<br /><br />http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/02/04/poll-who-won-the-5th-democratic-debate/<br /><br />Bernie Sanders 81%<br />Hillary Clinton 17%<br /><br />http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/democratic_presidential_debate_who_won_vote_in_our_poll.html<br /><br />Bernie Sanders 91.48% (10,271 votes)<br />Hillary Clinton 8.52% (957 votes) <br /><br />http://heavy.com/news/2016/02/poll-who-won-the-democratic-debate-2/<br /><br />Bernie Sanders 87.58% (10,178 votes)<br />Hillary Clinton 9.69% (1,126 votes)<br />It was a draw 2.73%<br /><br />http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/poll_who_won_thursdays_democratic_2016_presidential_debate.html<br /><br />Bernie Sanders 85.4% (901 votes)<br />Hillary Clinton 14.6% (154 votes)<br /><br />http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/02/04/poll-who-won-the-fifth-democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-or-bernie-sanders/<br /><br />Bernie Sanders 74.74% (7,443 votes)<br />Hillary Clinton 16.05% (1,598 votes)<br />Just happy It was a great debate 9.21% (917 votes)<br /><br />http://crooksandliars.com/2016/02/snap-poll-who-won-new-hampshire-democratic<br /><br /><br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-9958474581735499792016-02-05T12:19:47.111-08:002016-02-05T12:19:47.111-08:00Clinton claimed she was an enemy of Wall Street, n...Clinton claimed she was an enemy of Wall Street, not an ally: “Hedge fund guys are trying so hard to stop me,” she claimed. Sanders could have pointed out that Clinton had attended a fundraiser in Philadelphia hosted by hedge fund managers only last week.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-83940902698609897302016-02-05T12:16:49.794-08:002016-02-05T12:16:49.794-08:00In the sharpest exchange of the night, Clinton rea...In the sharpest exchange of the night, Clinton reacted vehemently to Bernie's truthful talking point about how much money in campaign donations and speaking fees she’s taken from Wall Street: <br /><br />"Senator Sanders has said he wants to run a positive campaign. I've tried to keep my disagreements over issues, as it should be. But time and time again, by innuendo, by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth, which really comes down to -- you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought. And I just absolutely reject that, Senator. And I really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. And enough is enough. If you've got something to say, say it directly."<br /><br />Actually, Bernie did say it directly. She just didn't like that he said it.<br /><br />RELEASE THE UN-REDACTED TRANSCRIPTS!!! (That will put the issue to rest.)<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com