2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Laughs When Asked if She Will Release Transcripts of Her Goldman Sachs Speeches
During one of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Clinton reportedly reassured the crowd and told them that banker-bashing was unproductive and foolish, according to a Politico report based on accounts offered by several attendees.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/23/hillary-clinton-laughs-when-asked-if-she-will-release-transcripts-her-goldman-sachs
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/23/clinton-goldman-sachs-laugh/
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)eom
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Stays at Goldman Sachs.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)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 cant be a lawyer if you dont 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
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Do not need an explanation. This needs to be pushed even harder.
elias49
(4,259 posts)"I was talking to important people!"
global1
(25,251 posts)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)... 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)..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.