2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo, essentially, HRC used her position as SOS to reward cronies with taxpayer $$
who would then, in turn, help support her campaign? Purchased support, paid with either taxpayer dollars or favors of some kind?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511539263
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511538964
In much the same way that most of her financial and public support from corporate executives, heads of social organizations, fellow politicians, etc. has been pretty much bought off by way of quid pro quo?
msongs
(67,433 posts)brentspeak
(18,290 posts)Off some crib sheet or were you able to memorize it?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Hillary's Foundation and its money laundering? Not so much.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I'm sure the giant gun manufacturers were grateful for Bernie protecting them from lawsuits from the families of gun massacre victims
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Than Hillary for supplying arms all around the world . She has a much worse record.
Beowulf
(761 posts)SOP for both Clintons in their years of public service.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Like, all the time? Can't you just go bump the original?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Bernie supporter's like to provide back up material to back up the point being made.
The horror!
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Spam.
insta8er
(960 posts)astrophuss42
(290 posts)Cronyism is what had me bleeding blue in the first place.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)What's your pleasure?
I can call you a racist, a sexist, a misogynist, a traitor to the Democratic Party, or perhaps just a generic "hater."
I can simply post "BENGHAZI!" ironically and preferably in all caps.
Or there's always just this:
Or this:
You ask some valid, reasonable questions that we should all be discussing. Unfortunately, I won't be holding my breath waiting for members of a certain small but vocal and well-financed faction to address them with the respect and the depth they deserve.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Are really excited about the Sanders campaign. (Well, except in the South.)
But here in rural California, he is making great headway. And it is amazing that he had tens of thousands of voters in Salt Lake City attend a rally.
With the voters in Seattle doing the same type of thing!
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)We've had a warped sense of what leaders and politicians can say and do for such a long time.
Bernie is a profile in courage and a breath of fresh air.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Come on California!
Salt Lake City, Seattle = you rock.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)Maybe she got confused about what public financing of campaigns means?
onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Either that, or they try to explain it away by arguing that it's no big deal or that it's just the reality of modern day politics.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
TheFarseer
(9,323 posts)Also give the Clintons money directly with $250,000 per speech speaking fees.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)It's a big sleazey pyramid scheme, paid for by us.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)those at the bottom always pay
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Lorien
(31,935 posts)Hillary spent most of her years as SoS pushing fracking on Countries that didn't want it. Why would she do such a thing when we have all the tech we need to get off fossil fuels forever, and fracking is so dangerous to aquifers? Exactly because of both of those facts; fossil fuel barons know their days of controlling the world by controlling energy are numbered, and Wall Street heavyweights are now shifting their investments from oil to, yes, fresh water! Western States are running out of it, but much of the rest of the world has plenty. So why invest in such an abundant resource? Because it becomes far LESS abundant when you poison it! Fracking is the fastest way to poison vast reserves of ground water under the guise of "energy security". After all, Flint wasn't about saving money, it was about making it for those connected with Nestle.
The first thing that Hillary's friend G.W. Bush did after leaving office was purchase 300,000 acres in Paraguay. The land itself had little to offer, but beneath it lies one of the last great reserves of clean fresh water in the world.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)It will be impossible to keep up with the money transfers and pay to play.