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[randys1]

1. faux news, my god

[SunSeeker]

20. The link is to RealClearPolitics.com, which claims its source is AP.

And also notes:

The AP found no evidence of legal or ethical conflicts in Clinton's meetings, in its examination of 1,294 pages from the calendars. Her sit-downs with business leaders were not unique among recent secretaries of state, who sometimes called on corporate executives to aid in international affairs, according to archived documents.

And the author, Stephen Braun, has been doing nothing but Hillary bash pieces, as is evident when you click on his name:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/stephen_braun/

[JDPriestly]

58. The ethics of the matter will be decided by the voters after a huge barrage, a

veritable onslaught of right-wing smearing and propagandizing that will leave Hillary's fans aghast, mouths open, "wha' happened?" "Where'd 'at come from?"

It would be great if those blinded by Hillary's dazzling numbers and money would stop and think for a moment, "What will the Republicans do with this information in the 2016 November election cycle?"

How many Democratic voters will be so utterly turned off by the stench of these deals that they just decide not to vote?

Feel the Bern before it is too late to save the 2016 election from the Clinton soupcon of corruption.

[George II]

3. There seems to be a spate of opinion pieces being posted in LBN this morning.

[Attorney in Texas]

12. Reporting of facts does not magically become opinion just because you don't like the facts

[George II]

22. But reporting "facts" from several years ago doesn't constitute LATEST BREAKING NEWS, either.

[Attorney in Texas]

50. When the news story is just now breaking it does

[Fla Dem]

56. It's not news, it's opinion. They only thing RCP got from the AP was the number of contacts.

The rest is opinion and speculation by the writer.

Here he says...

"The AP found no evidence of legal or ethical conflicts in Clinton's meetings, in its examination of 1,294 pages from the calendars. Her sit-downs with business leaders were not unique among recent secretaries of state, who sometimes called on corporate executives to aid in international affairs, according to archived documents..

His criticism of her meeting with the corp execs is that it was inappropriate because she may be running for pressident in 2008. How pathetic.

And OMG, OMG In a span of 4 years, 1,460 days, she may have talked with corp execs 100 times

Welcome to DU to Lance23.

[William Seger]

26. Well, if you report the facts in a way that implies unethical behavior

... even though it doesn't, but then don't have any actual examples of unethical behavior, then I'd suspect that maybe you've allowed some bias to creep into your reporting.

[Thinkingabout]

38. Does speculation work in the court room?

[Attorney in Texas]

51. We instruct juries "A fact is established by circumstantial evidence when it may be fairly and

reasonably inferred from other facts proved."

[840high]

16. Good.

[former9thward]

7. The story is available at many outlets.

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/11/30/calendars-show-clintons-availability-to-supporters

But it is so much easier to attack the messenger than deal with the message....

[SunSeeker]

35. It is the OP that can't "deal with the message."

The poster conveniently failed to post the key paragraph from this nonstory:

The AP found no evidence of legal or ethical conflicts in Clinton's meetings, in its examination of 1,294 pages from the calendars. Her sit-downs with business leaders were not unique among recent secretaries of state, who sometimes called on corporate executives to aid in international affairs, according to archived documents.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/11/30/clinton_opened_state_department_office_to_dozens_of_corporate_donors_dem_fundraisers_128879.html

[rhett o rick]

21. You do get points for nailing the #1 response slot, but your response is not even a nice try. nm

[randys1]

27. Ted CRuz and Rubio and Trump LOVE it when so called Democrats attack their own

[rhett o rick]

29. The Progressive Wing recognizes that 8 more years of Conservative rule will not

help those that are struggling with poverty, losing their homes, getting overloaded with student debt, or living on SS.
Fuck your Cruz, Rubio, and Trump threat.

[Laser102]

54. You are talking about Obama? Conservative? Seriously? We should be so lucky to have another

President like Barack Obama.

[TryLogic]

4. I do think she is a corporate Democrat, but who trusts FOX news???

[randys1]

11. ANYthing to destroy her, now who benefits if the MAIN democratic candidate is destroyed?

[840high]

18. America benefits.

[rhett o rick]

30. You seem to be referring to the main 1% candidate. The main candidate for the People is

Sen Sanders. HRC doesn't even try to hide her connections with Goldman-Sachs and the billionaires.

[randys1]

33. No, she is the main candidate as to poll numbers. As a mature Bernie supporter and mature

member of the Democratic Party, I am able to see more than just what benefits me.

[rhett o rick]

34. I neither trust nor care what the polls say. I will fight against the corporate domination of our

Party forever.

[840high]

17. It's AP

[rhett o rick]

25. What does that have to do with anything? nm

[Darb]

9. Holy shit! What a find!!! This is....

a huge pile of kook-loving bullshit.

Nice try.

[Darb]

13. No, you misunderstand.

It doesn't matter for shit, true or untrue.

[rhett o rick]

31. You forgot to provide an argument to make your case, if you have one. nm

[SoapBox]

14. Of course she would...

She's all about the big money and big power.

No...More...Clintons...Ever.

[Pantagruelsmember]

15. Examples of outrageous corruption

that our SOS would talk to the CEO's of some of America's largest corporations:

"PepsiCo Inc. CEO Indra Nooyi also had at least three scheduled contacts with Clinton. In February 2010, Nooyi and General Electric Co. CEO Jeff Immelt met Clinton as part of the State Department's efforts to secure corporate money for an American pavilion in China's Shanghai Expo in May of that year. Nooyi talked twice with Clinton by phone in 2012, a year when PepsiCo spent $3.3 million on lobbying, including talks with State Department officials. "

Nooyi had 3 contacts in Clinton's 4 years as SOS, MY GOD, the corporate bitch was virtually camped in Clinton's office!!!!

[JoePhilly]

19. It was very sneaky of her to put these meetings / calls on her formal calendar.

And she talked to almost 100 of them ... in the very very short period from 2009 to 2013.

I mean that's less than 1500 days!!!

OMG!!!!!!!

[rhett o rick]

32. You fail to explain how this isn't important. This is just more evidence that she is a

corporate tool. She has zero love for the People, only wealth and power.

[pnwmom]

41. It is part of her job to negotiate trade. This means working both with

the companies and the countries involved.

Duh.

[rhett o rick]

46. It's just another indication that she favors corporations.

Hillary Clinton is a strong proponent of fracking. While working for the taxpayers as Secretary of State, she used her office as Sec of State to convince foreign governments to begin or increase their use of fracking in spite of the protesting peoples in those countries.

“Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she agreed to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/22/global-protests-fracking-globalfrackdown_n_1905034.html

Time and again she sides with corporations over People.

[pnwmom]

49. She worked with corporations. And she carried out Obama's policy

and Obama was a strong supporter of fracking.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/02/12/president-obama-gets-it-fracking-is-awesome/

And she has called for an investigation of Exxon's suppression of research on climate change.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/29/hillary-clinton-exxon/

[JoePhilly]

42. Oh no no ... its HUGE!!!!

And clearly she hates the people.

[rhett o rick]

44. Again and again, no substance. nm

[JoePhilly]

45. Yea, these OPs are kind of lame.

Some one just posted another OP with this same nonsense.

[rhett o rick]

47. Then they should be easy to refute instead of the stuff you respond with.

Seems like HRC supporters can't refute any of the challenges so they resort to ad hominem responses.

[JoePhilly]

48. I'll help you ...

... the US SecState, who deals with US foreign trade, spoke to almost 100 CEOs, in just under 1500 days.

Because, well, that's part of the job.

Geeze.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Crossing the line between public and private sector has caused

more damage than good. Would not be surprised to discover that a preponderance of Bernie supporters are people who have been harmed by the process that puts social networking ahead of solid government process.

[SunSeeker]

24. "The AP found no evidence of legal or ethical conflicts in Clinton's meetings."

You left out that key line from the article. As the article explicitly stated:

The AP found no evidence of legal or ethical conflicts in Clinton's meetings, in its examination of 1,294 pages from the calendars. Her sit-downs with business leaders were not unique among recent secretaries of state, who sometimes called on corporate executives to aid in international affairs, according to archived documents.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/11/30/clinton_opened_state_department_office_to_dozens_of_corporate_donors_dem_fundraisers_128879.html

[rhett o rick]

36. She represents big corporations no matter how you try to spin it. But I bet you don't

care. I bet your only criteria is that she is a tough authoritarian. Her close ties with Goldman-Sachs, one of the worst of the worse doesn't matter does it? (rhetorical)

[SunSeeker]

39. No, Hillary represents me. The author of this story is spinning a nonstory to sound nefarious.

She is a progressive Democrat who can win and is the most qualified presidential candidate out there. That is my criteria.

[pampango]

28. "The AP found no evidence of legal or ethical conflicts in Clinton's meetings, in its examination of

1,294 pages from the calendars. Her sit-downs with business leaders were not unique among recent secretaries of state, who sometimes called on corporate executives to aid in international affairs, according to archived documents.

Teachers' union chief Weingarten met Clinton three times, in 2009, 2010 and 2012. Emails released by the State Department show that Weingarten's policy aide, Tina Flournoy, messaged Clinton at her private account in mid-September 2009 saying that "Randi and would like to visit you re: child labor issues — if that's possible, whom should I contact to schedule?"

Clinton responded: "I would love to see you and Randi. I'm copying Lona (Clinton's scheduling aide) to see how soon we can schedule. Hope you're well."

"We discussed a range of issues with Secretary Clinton — including the growing refugee crisis, expanding access to education globally and curbing child labor practices," said Kate Childs Graham, speaking for the union.

[rhett o rick]

37. No matter how you spin it, she is a major player in the corrupt government Establishment

that is funded by the billionaires. Are you really ok with big money owning our government? (rhetorical)

[pnwmom]

40. Horrors! She was doing part of her job!

Let's see . . . she actually spoke to the companies for which she was handling trade negotiations.

Shocked. I'm just shocked.

[JoePhilly]

43. It gets rather silly around here doesn't it.

[winstars]

52. Really... Wake me up after Super Tuesday please...

[leftofcool]

53. Ya think?

[Beacool]

55. Regarding the Shanghai Expo, the U.S. almost did not exhibit due to lack of funding.

Hillary reached out to various corporations and in a few weeks had the funding necessary to build the USA pavilion. Not too many SOS would have had her connections.

"Funding shortages and an apparent lack of interest by the big corporations that usually help finance such projects plagued the USA Pavilion.

In March 2008, the State Department announced that it had given authorization to design, build and raise money for the USA Pavilion. Later that year, the nonprofit group that had been given the go-ahead, Shanghai Expo 2010 Inc., told the State Department that it was shutting down because of a lack of time and money.

In the spring of 2009, long after most other nations had begun work on their pavilions, Chinese officials, frustrated by the failing U.S. effort, asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to intervene.

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Because U.S. law bars the use of federal money for international expos, pavilion organizers were forced to solicit corporate sponsorships with Clinton's help. This April, Citigroup signed a contract to donate the final $5 million for the $61 million pavilion, ending a yearlong fundraising campaign."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24586162.html

I'm so sick of reading anti-Hillary articles on RW sites and then see the same crap printed here. Hillary supporters get the point, most on this site prefer Sanders, but enough already!!!! Support the guy you prefer, but stop the never ending Hillary bashing. She will probably be the Democratic nominee and the way she's treated on a Democratic site is just shameful.

[AzDar]

57. Ugh. So slimy...

Again, I ask : HOW can ANYONE support her??