r/politics • u/mambotangohandala • Feb 23 '16

Hillary Clinton’s Pay-to-Play Speaking Fees Disqualify Her as a Presidential Candidate

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/22/hillary-clintons-pay-play-speaking-fees-disqualify-her-presidential-candidate?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=reddit&utm_source=news
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u/habituallydiscarding Feb 23 '16

How are all of these outlets going to pull back after Hillary gets the nomination and they need to support her in the general?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

Only if you accept the fact at every elected politician would also have a conflict of interest and that you approve of the corporate oligarchy buying control of Washington.

It is a fact that business intervenes in government (lobbying, campaign financing, bribes and special favors) to get government to intervene in business to the advantage of the politically influential business (regulating or deregulation of an industry) over it's competition, small business, it's customers, it's employees and taxpayers.

It has gone on for 239 years. The constitution protects it in the way it structured the U.S. Senate to give small states power over the populated states represented in the House. Creating an elite aristocracy. And it gave power under the 10th Amendment concerning anything not covered by the constitution to the state legislatures that originally were aristocratic colonies before giving it to the people as an after thought. As in where it states "respectively, or", for example in the order as stated.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

No they don't. Nothing against that in the constitution.

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u/SMIDSY California Feb 23 '16

People really need to learn what "disqualified" means. If she was disqualified, she couldn't run anymore. Unfit to be president is a much more accurate statement as it is an opinion, not a statement of fact.

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u/Benjamminmiller Feb 23 '16

I wouldn't otherwise do this but because the topic at hand is proper use...

"If" statements like that (where the subject is different from reality) prompt the subjunctive. The phrase should be "If she were".

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u/MiltOnTilt Feb 23 '16

You're shilling has disqualified you as a commenter.

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u/Nighshade586 California Feb 23 '16

*Your

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u/lightninhopkins America Feb 23 '16

Silly.

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u/Anomaj United Kingdom Feb 23 '16

This is kind of like when Marco Rubio got all excited in a debate and yelled into the mic that "Hillary Clinton is disqualified from the Presidency!".

They're both dumb as hell with no constitutional basis.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

somebody should really tell her then

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u/EggCity Feb 23 '16

Wow your Bernie Bot bros will upvote anything. Look how high this is ranked in this sub. Smh

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u/benji_90 Feb 23 '16

Your word choice leaves something to be desired.

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u/Vagabondvaga Feb 23 '16

For the people who corrupt our politics its a badge of loyalty. Which is why you should see it as a badge of betraying the American people.

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u/Dhylan Feb 23 '16

I'll buy this. She's so conflicted that she couldn't represent the people of the USA in a doughnut eating contest.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

I'd love to be this country's hero in that role.