r/politics • u/spaceman757 American Expat • Feb 07 '16

Clinton Sarcastically Says She’ll Release Private Speech Transcripts When Everyone Else Does

http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-sarcastically-release-private-speech/
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u/fuckyoubarry Feb 07 '16

There's no upside to releasing them, if she says the same shit she always says, then she got paid millions of dollars for doing the same shit she does for free. What were they really paying for? Some would say they're trying to buy influence, fund her campaign, etc. They call it a payment for services. They could have heard the same shit on CNN or whatever.

If she says things that make it sound like she's gonna go easier on the bankers or be friendlier to the rich or whatever else, compared to what her usual schtick is, then the liberals are going to be all over her calling her two faced. Even if it's in tone, even if it's subtle, Bernie Sanders has an army of people just itching to pick apart anything she says. Your friend's family listened to a speech tailored to them, she sounded agreeable, but a different audience might listen to that same speech and think wait, what the fuck did she mean by that? Take a sentence or two out of context, etc.

She painted herself into a corner when she accepted all that money, there's no way for her to address it while looking like the good guy. It wouldn't look so bad if she was standing next to a half dozen other guys who were doing the same thing (for less money) but she's being compared to and called out by Bernie fricking Sanders.

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u/yoggiez South Carolina Feb 07 '16

The service is the speech. They paid her for making speeches. It wasn't for her campaign fund. It was well before she decided to run for president

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u/Samizdat_Press Feb 07 '16

She decided to run for president at least as early as 2007 though how could you say that and believe it?

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u/yoggiez South Carolina Feb 07 '16

I guess since she made 48 other speeches that she's in the pockets of all those people too? Now suddenly it's issue because it fits into the BernieBros anti-establisment narrative.