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Hillary Clinton Laughs When Asked if She Will Release Transcripts of Her Goldman Sachs Speeches (Original Post) INdemo Jan 2016 OP
It was a nervous laugh though. NorthCarolina Jan 2016 #1
What happens at Goldman Sachs HassleCat Jan 2016 #2
........ daleanime Jan 2016 #4
Urbandictionary: Defination of ''Hillarity'' Ichingcarpenter Jan 2016 #3
the common people Duckhunter935 Jan 2016 #5
"None of your business, peons" elias49 Jan 2016 #6
This Is Not A Laughing Matter.... global1 Jan 2016 #7
I wonder if we could get transcripts of her speeches to Cisco that she also got a LOT of money for.. cascadiance Jan 2016 #8
Hillary is desperate to avoid a... bvar22 Jan 2016 #9
It must be Hillaryous! Bernblu Jan 2016 #10

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
3. Urbandictionary: Defination of ''Hillarity''
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 12:44 PM
Jan 2016

Hillarity: Using nervous laughter to avoid questions.







A political ploy used by Hillary Clinton and other politicians who can't answer questions

"Just laugh it off like it's no big deal and the average sucker will interpret that as meaning the question isn't important."
Or something like that anyways.

examples

n 1992, a 44-year-old attorney made the following remarkable assertion: “For goodness’ sake, you can’t be a lawyer if you don’t represent banks.” she laughed after representing a bank under investigation with her husbands govt in Arkansas

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...epresent-banks

On her Goldman speaking fees:

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton laughed off a question about releasing the transcript from her paid speeches at Goldman Sachs when asked by a reporter, as rival Bernie Sanders continues to criticize her on the issue.
Source: The Hill



On her health:
Hillary Clinton laughed off a question about her health today from a woman who said she'd heard on Fox News that the Democratic presidential candidate "was really not equipped to be in the White House" because she was ill.
Source: ABC


I felt like this rang a bell for some reason so I googled the phrase. Sure enough, this seems to be her reaction whenever she's confronted with a tough question.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton laughed off questions about her ongoing email scandal when CNN anchor Jake Tapper brought up the subject on Friday.
Source: Mediaite


Hillary Clinton on Thursday laughed off Chris Christie's suggestion that she could be prosecuted for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
Source: CNN


She dismisses with laughter issues that people have legitimate concerns about, that she has no answer to. Is this her tell?


Hillarity about Killing Gaddafi......... the list goes on

global1

(25,251 posts)
7. This Is Not A Laughing Matter....
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 01:10 PM
Jan 2016

Hillary wants our vote. Hillary campaigns on telling Wall St. to "cut it out". Well lets see if she is saying the same thing to us as she is saying to the Goldman Sachs, 1%er's, the Banksters' and the Corps that she takes large amounts of money from.

She needs to release the transcripts of her money making speeches. If she refuses to - or laughs in the face of those that ask her to release the transcripts - it has the appearance of her trying to hide something. She claims there is no conflict of interest so let us see that there is no conflict of interest. If she has nothing to hide - than there shouldn't be a problem in releasing those transcripts.

We need to keep the pressure on her to release these transcripts. We need to know if we ultimately have to give our votes to her - that we are not shooting ourselves in the foot.

We're talking that she received some big money here for these speeches. Is she really worth those huge sums for an hours speech or is she being paid off for future favors to them.

Wasn't it Trump that clued us in on what companies expect when they give big donations to political figures?

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
8. I wonder if we could get transcripts of her speeches to Cisco that she also got a LOT of money for..
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 01:32 PM
Jan 2016

... and whether she actually talks about H-1B Visas and TPP, etc. there that she's avoided talking about so much to the rest of us.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-was-paid-millions-by-tech-industry-for-speeches/2015/05/18/f149d598-fd86-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html

To get an idea of which candidates between both parties are the most on the tech H-1B/TPP, etc. bandwagon, look here.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/01/3697451/silicon-valley-backs-rubio/

Note that it says the following is the ordering in terms of who has most tech sector funding:

1st - Marco Rubio (publicly pro H-1B expansion)
2nd - Jeb Bush (publicly pro H-1B expansion)
3rd - Hillary Clinton (publicly pro H-1B expansion - at least back in 2007 the last time she took a public position)

Interesting to see America's ambassador to India's comments just his last week since he's noted here to have served on Hillary Clinton's presidential team, and how he views what is going on in terms of Indian / U.S. trade relationships.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/india-to-remain-priority-for-us-no-matter-who-rules-us-ambassador/articleshow/50688302.cms

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
9. Hillary is desperate to avoid a...
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 03:35 PM
Jan 2016

..Romneyesque "47%" moment.

These transcripts should be released.

If you have nothing to hide......
you have nothing to hide.


Hillary is acting like she is terrified these transcripts will get out.

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