What Wall St attendees said about Clinton speech

[Nanjeanne]

While we wait for Holl to decide about her transcripts.

From an older article from Politico. Holding mine.

But Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop. And indeed Goldman’s Tim O’Neill, who heads the bank’s asset management business, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank. (Brave, perhaps, but also well-compensated: Clinton’s minimum fee for paid remarks is $200,000).

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[Duckhunter935]

1. nice to see comments

From that time, you know they have not been cleaned up or scrubbed, like with some kind of cloth or something.

[GoneFishin]

2. Does anybody believe they paid her over $200 to coach them on serving the community in a kinder

gentler way?

[Divernan]

9. You mean $200,000, not $200.

Don't you DARE insult Hillary Rodham Clinton by claiming she would so much as clear her throat for a paltry $200.

[GoneFishin]

21. Oops. $200K

[warrprayer]

3. Those poor delicate flowers!

:" Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop"

[stillwaiting]

6. The bankers have had it very, very tough. They are truly lucky to have someone like Hillary...

... to defend them from the masses.

Added just in case...

[Jenny_92808]

4. That is one reason

I will be voting for Bernie.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. How much did they pay her when she went to Wall Street

and told them to "Cut it out?"

Did she do that one for free?

[GoneFishin]

22. For that they paid her a wink and a nod.

[Fearless]

7. First we did NOT get into this "together"

THEY almost destroyed the world economy, taking millions of retirement plans with them.

Secondly, the author is saying that she wagged her finger at then and gently asked for them to share in the blame?

That's rich.

$200000 rich.

[reformist2]

11. In Hillary's mind, "we" means the important politicians and the important business leaders.

We the people are kind of secondary in her mind. Ultimately, I think she cares about us peons, but it's all kind of secondary to this Mount Olympus world she lives in.

[zeemike]

13. Yep she was talking about the big club.

The one we the people are not in.

[reformist2]

14. Thank you, George Carlin. He sure went out with a bang with his 'American Dream' monologue.

[SusanCalvin]

8. She's never going to release transcripts.

Just because of the groups she was talking to, there's bound to be a lot of damaging things, at least in a lot of regular people's eyes. Just things that won't sound good.

I hope a lot more dibs and dabs like this come out, as long as what they say is the truth.

[Geronimoe]

10. It doesn't sound like she was telling them

to stop their shenanigans and cut it out.

[Akamai]

15. Just to remind people, in the debate with Sanders Hillary said

she told Wall Street to "cut out those shenanigans." Other people correctly call those activities crimes, immoral acts which deeply Hurst millions of Americans and wiped out trillions of dollars of middle-class and lower class money while none of the Wall Street criminals went to jail. Jamie Dimon just got a 35% raise even though JP Morgan again was forced to pay billions in fines.

[SusanCalvin]

16. Oh, I hadn't heard the "shenanigans" part.

That makes it sound even worse.

[4dsc]

12. We didn't create the global financial crisis.

Someone has a turd in their collective pocket to try and use the term we here. Hillary is not doing her case any good with these revelations.

[Cartoonist]

17. a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring

There, there, little baby, Mommy's going to make everything better.

[Duval]

18. I'm wondering if there were non-disclosure agreements signed. eom

[Ferd Berfel]

19. It's beyond me why anyone in the 99% would trust her

Such a history of triangulation and 'evolution'...after the polls dictated it.

[MrMickeysMom]

20. Here's how she initially tried to "soothe" them in 2014

Here message in 2014, when testing the waters with her biggest backers were her own passionate issue...Women are underserved in financial institutions.

She was giving that speech as a strategic nod to her running in 2016 in 2014 as a voice to have women join in the finance industry. Much of what was in that speech was in reference to the Foundation's SHARED goals of Goldman Sacs. The message was to see that women WORLD WIDE were not the risk when it came to lending.

This is great news to lending institutions. World wide lending is what has kept the labor movement from having a level playing field.

Personally, it makes more sense to me have fair trade agreements than grow the GDP by debt.

Once you see the alignment of debt instruments as the GDP versus the sustainable jobs industry for woman (and men), you can pretty well see that she is absolutely aligned with the goals of the world bank and DEBT everywhere as "economies grow".

The economies themselves don't elevate the people, but the debt instruments help the goals of the Clinton Foundation and Goldman Sacs.

[jwirr]

23. Cut that out. In her campaign she is trying to convince us that she cares about this mess. What

she needs to do us convince us that her donors - especially the Wall Street donors - have any interest in helping this country out of the danger we are in.