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UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:06 AM Feb 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Paid Wall Street Speeches Called Almost ‘Gushy’

Clinton has not released transcripts of the speeches

The highly-paid speeches Hillary Clinton gave to financial institutions were “friendly” and “light,” according to a new report, as Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders continues to make the speeches a campaign issue and Clinton faces growing pressure to release transcripts.

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources who attended some of the speeches or are familiar with them, reports that during a speech to Goldman Sachs, Clinton didn’t pin the blame on bankers alone for the 2008 financial crisis. A person who attended one talk described it as almost “gushy.”

http://time.com/4219049/hillary-clinton-wall-street-speeches-paid/

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Hillary Clinton’s Paid Wall Street Speeches Called Almost ‘Gushy’ (Original Post) UglyGreed Feb 2016 OP
Well!? Were they gushy or not? onehandle Feb 2016 #1
This all could be settled UglyGreed Feb 2016 #2
We'll most likely never know... TCJ70 Feb 2016 #3
Keynote speakers at big events usually are gushy. If she didn't pin it solely on bankers, apparently Hoyt Feb 2016 #4
You don't take $200K from someone to go in their house and dis them. /nt localroger Feb 2016 #5
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Hoyt

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4. Keynote speakers at big events usually are gushy. If she didn't pin it solely on bankers, apparently
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:12 AM
Feb 2016

she did pin some on bankers. It wasn't soley bankers' fault -- government, speculators, unreasonable expectations that rising home values would bail owners out if they couldn't make payments, etc., were partly responsible as well.

She sure is evil though.

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