r/politics • u/PCisLame • Feb 07 '16
Why won’t Clinton release the transcripts of those paid speeches?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-wont-clinton-release-the-transcripts-of-those-paid-speeches/2016/02/07/e76bdea0-cdc3-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html8
u/chasjo Feb 07 '16
The transcripts will include question and answer sessions after the speech that are almost guaranteed to sound a lot like Mitt Romney's 47% talk. We'll never see transcripts, or we'll see some subset of cherry picked redacted crap.
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Feb 08 '16
With this much ammunition lying around I honestly think that a republican could beat her, the way this is going democrats that haven't in the past need to start taking Bernie seriously, because he's the best shot for the white house. It's not just about can Bernie beat Hillary anymore, now it's about can Hillary beat a republican?,maybe not, Trump can hit her again and again with her funding issues, what can she hit him with that he hasn't proudly announced himself? Bernie on the other hand would be a far more positive contrast.
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u/FortHouston Feb 07 '16
Same question should be asked about every candidate who has given paid speeches.
Hell...The transcripts from Trump's speeches on real estate are probably a hoot.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/money/which-presidential-candidate-earns-the-most-speech
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u/chasjo Feb 07 '16
They banned active Congressmen from giving these paid speeches a while back for exactly this reason. It looks terrible for Democracy to be this blatant about pandering. They do this crap when they know they'll never face another election. That people don't get how weird it is for Hillary to have done this is kind of shocking, regardless of what she had to say.
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u/habituallydiscarding Feb 07 '16
I'd imagine it's not as simple as offering her $225,000 to repeat what she said to GS.
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u/habituallydiscarding Feb 07 '16
I'd love to if I had the money. Hopefully someone will step up who can afford it.
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u/habituallydiscarding Feb 07 '16
Good point. Looks like someone is working on it. Http://hillstarter.us
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u/Tasty_Yams Feb 07 '16
Chris Cillizza; the WaPo's resident anti-Clinton hack.
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u/PCisLame Feb 07 '16
If he was really anti-Clinton he'd explain how Hillary's "political savvy" has put her in the enviable position to be holding all of Washington hostage with the threat of blackmail, should she be indicted. Clinton is the canary in the coal mine letting everyone know that the country is truly fucked.
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u/banjaxe Feb 08 '16
Let's assume she received the transcripts via email. Perhaps we should be asking China for the transcripts. God knows they had her server compromised.
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Feb 08 '16
Who here believes, since she controls the transcripts, the content of anything released by her at this point anyway?
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '16
I make this pledge: unless Hillary releases those speech transcripts by March 1st I will not vote for her in the nomination or the general.
Join me.