2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum'I can never tell what he's talking about': Hillary Clinton dismisses Bernie's ' Wall Street attack
"In a Thursday interview with Business Insider, Hillary Clinton pushed back on Bernie Sanders' accusations about her relationship with the financial industry.
Business Insider's CEO and editor-in-chief, Henry Blodget, asked Clinton about Sanders' frequent criticism of her ties to Wall Street and why the financial industry is so demonized in the first place.
"Why is it so bad to be close to Wall Street?" Blodget asked during the interview at Purchase College in New York.
"I never can really tell what he's talking about," Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, said of her sole remaining primary rival. "It's just one of these sort of attacks that he pulls out all the time."
The two Democratic candidates are locked in tight battles in the next two primary states of Wisconsin, which votes Tuesday, and New York, which votes April 19 and holds particular significance for both. Sanders, who was born in Brooklyn, is vying to cut into Clinton's double-digit polling advantage in her adopted home state."
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-wall-street-2016-3
It would seem that Hillary just doesn't get it.
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)n/t
Tom Rinaldo
(22,917 posts)Nevada Blue
(130 posts)Good luck with that.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Her campaign is funded by Wall Street and Corps, there's no denying it no matter how much her supporters want to parse words and make it appear to be perfectly OK.
Hillary gets it; but she can't acknowledge it or she really is sunk. See what happens when you make a deal with the devil?
onecaliberal
(32,931 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)I guess she "got" that.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)Yeah, I don't know what the issue is. I meet with the banksters a few times a month. They hold parties for me. I take their money.
I don't get why this is a problem.
I don't know what any of you are talking about.
Where am I?
DanTex
(20,709 posts)issue oriented campaign, rather than trying to smear her with these dishonest attacks.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Avalon Sparks
(2,567 posts)What did he lie about?
If the Clinton campaign wants to argue that industry lobbyists giving thousands of dollars to her campaign wont affect her decisions if shes elected, thats fine,
Why call Bernie and his supporters liars for pointing out basic facts about Hillarys fundraising?
This is all public information, and quick frankly it looks like both you and Hillary must think it's a bad thing to accept all that money, if instead of justifying it Instead of claiming people lying about it.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Corporations don't and can't donate to campaigns, and Bernie knows that.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)That's about it as far as support goes for me; especially when that car finally dies, with her or a repub in office, the economy will be shit enough that I likely wouldn't be able to get one again.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)... when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
- Upton Sinclair
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)does not become you, anymore than the company you keep.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)As if he doesn't know what Wall Street is all about. Blodget is banned from the securities industry for life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget
<In 2002, then New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer published Merrill Lynch e-mails in which Blodget gave assessments about stocks which allegedly conflicted with what was publicly published.[6] In 2003, he was charged with civil securities fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[7] He agreed to a permanent ban from the securities industry and paid a $2 million fine plus a $2 million disgorgement.[2]>
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)<"But you also have to make sure that you've got the credit flowing, the financial instruments, that are going to enable Main Street to be successful.">
The "financial instruments" she's talking about, derivatives, are not required for Main Street to be successful. They are instruments for Wall Street to extract money from the real economy.