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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The editorial board of the New York Times (which endorsed Clinton, remember) has now called on her to release her Goldman Sachs transcripts:
It'll all end if he just releases his birth certificate! Why won't he do it? And what is he hiding?!!?!!!???!!!!!!
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |The suspicion is that Hillary's speeches would contain opinions and comments that would completely torpedo her image as a fighter for the middle class and poor, and have her telling the banks what huge fucking little shits the poor and middle class are and deserved to suffer for taking out bad loans or something.
Basically her speeches to Sachs and the like contain opinions that would destroy her public image, and she has to be keeping the speeches locked up so her approval ratings don't drop like a stone.
Clinton supposedly discussed policy in at least some of her speeches. There's speculation she indicated a willingness to repeal or modify Obama's signature Wall Street reform bill, Dodd-Frank.
The Clinton camp is on record promising to be more favorable to Wall Street than Obama. If there's record of her admitting doing something so far as repealing one of Obama's landmark first-term bills, that'd sink her alone.
At this point, if Hillary turns out to have been hired for musical help on the goldman sachs speeches and her released speeches consisted of only the lyrics of 'the songs from The Sound of Music, she would still get incinerated by them from pretty much anyone.
It's buzzwords and business babble, and those are vaguely and easily interpretable stuff for one way or another.
Doomed if she does, doomed if she doesn't, either way.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesThat's more or less exactly why she shouldn't release the transcripts: because they aren't going to satisfy anyone. They're just going to be mined for anything that can be used to create further outrage. Even if, as noted, all they contain is the lyrics to the Sound of Music, no one who's screaming for her to release them is going to read them and go, "Oh. This is entirely sound and reasonable. I withdraw my objection."
I mean, how many people stopped accusing Obama of being a Secret Muslim Terrorist when he released his birth certificate? History speaks for itself. Nobody wants proof in politics. When they demand proof, it's because they want more fuel for the spin engine.
Letting them keep screaming at the brick wall of, "RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPTS ARGLEBLARGL" is better for her campaign than giving them talking points like, "This sentence taken out of context proves that she's conspiring to murder all the gays!"
edited 25th Feb '16 2:49:28 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.While I agree with the logic for not releasing them I do stand that Hillary's claim that she'd release them if Sander's did was stupid. She should have strait up said "they're business speeches that mean nothing but are easily twistable and this demand is absurd so I'm not releasing them", not "you first".
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAgreed. She tried to play political chicken and it backfired spectacularly.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.@Jack: This bill
was Clinton's contentious work.
Basically the Clintons in an attempt to triangulate and boost the power of Democrats and compromise with Republicans, gutted a major New Deal provision over fears that people (especially African Americans) were cheating the system.
edited 25th Feb '16 2:59:20 PM by PotatoesRock

Also there's a desire for Bill and Hillary, if they're going to insist being Progressives or faking it at least, to own up to their non-Progressive decisions of triangulation in the 90s and 00s.
At least that's what I want.