Hillary Clinton: "Vet Me, Hold Me Accountable,..I WANT THAT,..I Actually Request It"

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BET News Special: The Candidates Talk Black
Hillary Clinton interviewed by Jeff Johnson
Feb. 21, 2016

“…People don’t trust our government,..people don’t trust our politics,…they don’t trust our economy,…practically every institution has fallen in trust by the american people and in a democracy like ours, truth is the glue that holds it all together. I am trying to present a path forward that is going to give people a chance to vet me, hold me accountable,..I want that,..I actually request it…”

http://www.bet.com/video/news/politics/2016/candidates-talk-black-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-full-show.html

Hillary Clinton told her BET interviewer Jeff Johnson that her path forward will give people a chance to “vet” her, hold her “accountable” and that she “wants that” and that she “actually requests it.” Well, the people do want to vet you Hillary by holding you accountable and are quite excited that you want the same, in fact, you actually requested it…..so,..

In the spirit of you requesting that we “vet” you and “hold you accountable”……THE PEOPLE WANT YOU TO RELEASE YOUR SPEECH TRANSCRIPTS because, as you clearly stated, “..people don’t trust our politics……and in a democracy like ours, truth is the glue that holds it all together…”

Do you believe in your own statement and if so, when will you release your transcripts?

[GoneFishin]

1. My first thought too. Release the transcripts.

[jwirr]

68. +1

[JudyM]

2. She is hiding what she actually says in emails and speeches. Way to be vetted, Hillary.

If the subject of the speeches wasn't squarely one of the main topics of the primary, it'd be different.

[CorporatistNation]

55. MSNBC Mika Brysinski, "Print Reporters Have Transcripts... "

[Avalux]

3. OK HILLARY. ENOUGH DOUBLE-SPEAK. RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPTS. n/t

[truedelphi]

79. Yes, Hillary, release the transcripts and for goddess sake -

We have already heard the "I expect the American people to hold my feet to the fire" speech from Obama right before and during his appointments of Big Banking and Big Ag Gm interests to the government's top positions.

Now the American people have lost their economy to Big Banking, and there is Big Policing of us all. Much of that policing is to protect the Corporate interests.And our crop lands will forever be impacted by the horrid Gm seeds.

[NCTraveler]

4. I don't think anyone questions the fact that she is the most vetted person...

at this point in the primary in history.

[nashville_brook]

15. nothing to see here...move right along...we know what's best for you...

[JackInGreen]

48. Can I check over behind that curtain

Before we're moved along?

[FrostyAusty]

5. I mean..

She has never lied right? Like ever... ?

This shit just gets funnier and funnier each passing day, and I thank all the wonderful Bernie supporters on this site for continuing to HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE while the MSM fails to do so.

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16. Welcome to DU....

But,...but,...these are her own words and demands...she wants to be VETTED and held ACCOUNTABLE.

Now that people are demanding 'sunlight' on her speech content, vetting and being held accountable seems to be non-applicable as to what the people want.

Unbelievable!

[Duckhunter935]

6. the release the transcripts

So we can do that

[Jackilope]

7. So typical HRC. What she says doesn't fit with what she means.

[840high]

43. Or what she does - release

the transcripts.

[farleftlib]

8. Oh the insanity!

Release the transcripts already! Stop stonewalling.

Also, I'm very curious about the time Hillary went down to Wall St. to help us all out. When exactly was this? Where on Wall St.? Whom was the recipient of the demand "to cut it out"? What was their response? Who else was there? Is there a transcript?

[Matariki]

9. Cool. Release your speech transcripts.

Talk is cheap.

[VulgarPoet]

10. I'll hold her accountable

for supporting fracking.
For accepting money from the worst corporate enemy of the environment, Monsanto.
For supporting H1b visas that deny trained Americans STEM jobs.
For outsourcing blue-collar factory jobs to the third world to deny even MORE Americans jobs.
For supporting a minimum wage keeping a middle-class from regrowing, keeping people trapped in a cycle of poverty.
For fostering the destruction of Syria, Libya, and Iraq during her career, wasting thousands of American lives and ruining an entire generation of Middle Eastern children.
For accepting money from the banks who destroyed the economy and had to be bailed out.

I swore to defend the Constitution when I enlisted, but when I'm supposed to entertain the idea of having no faith in the Commander in Chief, I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.

[malthaussen]

66. Resign, unfortunately

If you cannot, in good conscience, carry out the duties with which you have been charged, you must resign. Or not re-enlist, if you are not an officer.

What you're supposed to do if you are enlisted and have a commitment to honor is a bit tougher, since you don't have the option to refuse unilaterally. Officially, you salute the position, and not the person holding it. Since lack of confidence does not, alas, equate to being in receipt of an unlawful order, you legally have no grounds to refuse. Ultimately, it then comes down to "shut up and soldier, soldier."

-- Mal

[VulgarPoet]

84. I know. I've already looked.

And yeah, Enlisted. While the possibility of saluting the position if she holds it still galls me; but nowhere near as much as actually saluting her. "Shut up and color" has been the mantra for the past four years of my life, I'm just trying to keep it from getting any worse.

[earthside]

11. Yet another proof ...

... that Hillary will say anything if she thinks it will help her politically at that moment.

I'll bet her eyes widen to at least the size of dinner plates when she made the "Vet me, hold me accountable,..I want that ... I actually request it" remarks.

(I would have watched the video but I don't have time to watch five ads in a row every three minutes.)

Just like her being against the TPP ... this is simply not believable.

And here at DU, her supporters certainly don't believe it because they cry foul every time someone posts evidence of her scandals and her flip-flopping on issue after issue.


Obama at the video link castigating Hillary's 'say anything' behavior.

[nc4bo]

12. HRC:"You're asking me to say I have never, I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will"

L.I.E.

[libtodeath]

13. Then she will dodge every question.

[nashville_brook]

14. release the transcripts and we'll vet the hell out of them.

[Orsino]

17. No, you don't, if you are not releasing the Goldman-Sachs transcripts. n/t

[vi5]

18. Obama said the same thing, didn't he?

Then his minions told us to shut the hell up when we tried to?

And thus we find ourselves in the Supreme Court shit show we are in today, aided, abetted, and enabled by 7 years of attempted compromise and reaching across the aisle and lots of "my friends on the other side of the aisle" bullshit.

If the rest of my fellow Democrats want to go down this road again they are more than welcome to, but count me out. I know what's at stake now. It's the same stuff that's been at stake and will continue to be at stake every election from here on out. It's never ending and there's no winning for the rest of us, only the wealthy and the elites as long as we continue to pull from the same dynastic pool and 3rd way, post-DLC triangulation.

[shanti]

34. yessiree he did

'hold his feet to the fire'....and all that.

[AlbertCat]

49. Obama has done right well considering

He sure was milquetoast for the 1st couple of years.... and not that forceful after.

If Hillary is elected it will be 4 more years (not 8 hopefully) of more of the same. Or actually I think WORSE! She is not as good a politician as Obama...which was proven in the primary... she lost.

[Vinca]

19. RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPTS!

Until I'm able to fully vet you, that Hillary Clinton fundraising letter I got in this morning's mail stays in the bin for recycling.

[PWPippin]

61. I'm marking mine "Return to Sender". Simple pleasures.

[MaggieD]

20. No one except those that hate her care about transcripts

[farleftlib]

25. No cigar

Sorry. She claims she wants to rein in Wall St. but she took millions from them for "speeches." Nobody's BS is worth all that money, and she isn't that articulate. If you want to run for POTUS at a time when the banks are being bailed out by our money, I want to see what they're being promised. Put up or pull out.

[MaggieD]

27. I've been to one of her paid speeches

The event sold out quickly once she was named the headliner. Money went to a good cause. And she is a fascinating speaker. You guys need to remember, she was voted the most admired woman in the world 20x. She's a big draw, and people want to hear her speak. Just because you guys hate her doesn't change that.

[Beowulf]

73. What was her percentage of the total vote for most admired?

[MaggieD]

74. More than anyone else, 20 times

[Beowulf]

76. That's not what I asked.

[MaggieD]

77. Google them then - I'm not your research department

[Beowulf]

81. I did. See post #75

But I want you to state it. Of course you won't because it would nullify your talking point. If you're going to boast that she's the most admired woman for 20 consecutive years then also give us her winning percentage. For 2015 it was 13%. Second place was 5%. It's a meaningless poll.

[MaggieD]

83. It's not meaningless - it makes her a sought after speaker

[Beowulf]

75. I'll give you a hint.

She was not the most admired woman of 87% of those responding.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

92. ix-nay on the inton-Clay igar-cay

[LondonReign2]

33. Or those interested in, you know, ethics

But if you don't care if your candidate has integrity or ethics, then yeah, you don't care so much about them.

[timmymoff]

39. well you aren't going to get the votes of those who hate her anyway so what's the harm?

[AlbertCat]

50. No one hates her... (except every conservative in the country)

.... they just think she'd make a lousy president.

[Waiting For Everyman]

21. Talk is cheap. Release the transcripts. nt

[arcane1]

63. Well, talk is cheap when she's talking to us peons anyway. n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

65. Good point! nt

[MaggieD]

22. Here's a GS Speech by her - enjoy!

[Jarqui]

29. That's a classic Hillary move => deception

Last edited Wed Feb 24, 2016, 03:46 PM - Edit history (1)

That is not one of her paid speeches. That speech was made on September 23, 2014 at the Clinton Global Initiative



http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511162372

[dana_b]

42. Good catch

[SheenaR]

23. Vet me. Hold Me accountable. I request it

I request accountability on why she cannot tell the truth to anyone at any time

I request she understand WHY she is being singled out

Note: Fully realize this is not the multimedia section. Rather than copying and pasting every exact quote, these videos do better justice than I can.

[MaggieD]

28. Oh come on... everybody knows this is just campaign propaganda

Edited videos, or claiming she is lying simply because you don't agree with her. A difference on policy opinion is not a lie.

[morningfog]

35. Oh look. Welcome back.

[John Poet]

88. Unless you're a BLM activist, in which case

you'll be booed and hissed at by my white supporters, and then escorted out of the event you paid $500 to attend.

[Zorra]

24. Nope. That's a big can of Buyer's Remorse waiting to happen. nt

[ladjf]

26. .... fork over those speeches. nt

[99th_Monkey]

30. "Hold me accountable AFTER you hold ALL GOP candidates accountable" <-- the jest of it. nt

[PonyUp]

31. Please release them, let them go... n/t

[Segami]

36. LOL!

[panader0]

32. Another lie. The last thing she really wants is to be completely vetted.

Her shenanigans go 'way back...

[azmom]

37. Her campaign song

[GuardianOne]

38. She'll look into it.

Do you believe in your own statement and if so, when will you release your transcripts?

After they're redacted to kingdom come. That's when she'll do it.

Anyone that doesn't like it, they're predators and need to be under her heel.

[MisterP]

40. fine, can we ask about Tuff on Crime, incentives to fill prisons, the death penalty, keeping

marijuana illegal, constant dogwhistles to the most lilywhite call-the-cops-and-say-the-Black-kid-has-a-gun suburban types, kicking out BLM, deportations, walls, coups, wars, backtracking on abortion, gay-marriage condemnation as late as 2013?

[gregcrawford]

41. Be careful what you wish for, Hillary...

... you just might get it.

[fbc]

44. RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPTS THEN IF YOU ARE NOT LYING

spoiler: she's lying.

she doesn't want that, she's not actually requesting it.

[Ferd Berfel]

45. Beat me, Bite me, MAke me write bad checks...

[wouldsman]

46. Great Hillary, I would like to take part in vetting,

I realize that you may be to busy to check in here at DU, but maybe one of your surrogates can answer for you? Two questions:
1. Are you actually opposed to TPP? because what I have heard you say is that you are opposed to the changes that you have seen in TPP. Could you talk about the specific changes in TPP that made you change your mind from it being the gold standard to something you can't support?

2. The coup that happened in Honduras under your watch- did Kissinger give you advice on how to handle that? How do you feel about a Democracy being overthrown and replaced by a military coup? Honduras is now the murder capital of the world. Journalists killed, gay rights activists killed, women raped and killed. Now in hindsight, seeing how bad this "regime change" went, do you wish you had raised a finger to stop it?

Thanks in advance for any and all serious substantive responses to my questions.

[SandersDem]

47. While I do not

Buy into the majority of republican attacks, her donors, inconsistencies in policies and weak record was enough for me to feel the Bern.

We dot not need the Third Way

[onecaliberal]

51. Really? Release the God Damned transcripts then already. Tell the complete truth about the email.

[Jester Messiah]

52. Bluffing on a pair of 2's.

I call.

[modestybl]

53. Straight from the Karl Rove manual...

...lie brazenly, and never admit you are wrong, "money in politics corrupts everyone except me..." and so on...

[PeteSelman]

54. Only a fool would unilaterally disarm in a hot war.

I'm a Bernie supporter but I don't blame her for not putting the transcripts out without her opponents doing the same. Would you really let a dickhead like Cruz or a jerkoff like Rubio slime you on Wall Street stuff without having them release too?

It's stupid to do that.

[Nonhlanhla]

60. Exactly.

Thank you.

[arcane1]

67. That's assuming there is something bad in the transcripts, which is the whole point.

She'll do everything she can to avoid showing what she really thinks.

[PeteSelman]

82. I think it'll be construed as bad no matter what it says.

Unless she's berating the Wall Street guys and telling them she coming for them, it won't matter what's in the scripts. She'll be ripped for it.

[CharlotteVale]

56. I really think she believed nobody would ever dare to.

[thereismore]

57. You actually take her for her word spoken yesterday?

[arcane1]

59. More lies. Faking confidence doesn't work anymore, Clinton. Bush ruined that for all.

[WiffenPoof]

62. I'm reminded of...

Gary Hart telling the press to follow him...

[Nonhlanhla]

64. There is a difference between vetting and

distortion, innuendos, attacks, etc.

Which is what we see a lot more of here than real vetting.

[pdsimdars]

69. "Vet me" -- just don't ask anything I don't like

Or she'll accuse of picking on her with a different standard.
Only Bernie actually released his transcript as soon as you said you would if he did. He did and she STILL hasn't.
She is even conservative in that, she will say ANYTHING she thinks she should say at the time, but it has nothing to do with reality or truth.

And don't tell me I'm just tearing her down, if she would stop lying there would be no problem.

[Ino]

70. No, no... she's presenting a path forward...

to the Presidency. And after that, you'll have a chance to vet her & hold her accountable for her actions from that point on (no going back!).

[demwing]

71. You can vet Hillary as soon as everyone else gets vetted /nt

[virgdem]

72. We would love to do that, Hillary...

but you'll just bob and weave as usual. Nothing to see here-same old song.

[Dems to Win]

78. $20 million in paid speeches, cashing in on her public service

Greedy, sleazy, just like her husband.

I don't need to see the transcripts to know that I don't want the Clintons to return to the White House. My vetting is DONE, I've concluded she won't get my primary vote.

I trust Bernie Sanders and his campaign funded by $27 donations. He will work for the 99%.

Go Bernie Go!

[Jopin Klobe]

80. " ... give people a chance to vet me, hold me accountable,..I want that,..I actually request it…”

When will you release your transcripts? ... When will you release your transcripts? ...
When will you release your transcripts? ... When will you release your transcripts? ...
When will you release your transcripts? ... When will you release your transcripts? ...

... Proceed, Madam Secretary ...

[Duppers]

85. She's appealing to the low info voters.

[Marr]

86. Yeah, she wants to be vetted. Uh-huh. That's why she had that BLM protester thrown out

for asking her to explain her 'bring them to heel' quote.

[John Poet]

89. Must be "whites-only" vetting.

[Betty Karlson]

87. RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPTS!

You want it, you say? Put your paper trail where your mouth is.

[Fairgo]

90. Your request is my command

and my command is, "Release the transcripts!"...and the Kraken. Don't forget the Kraken.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

91. Like, with a cloth?

[PonyUp]

94. LOL n/t

[Matt_R]

93. We, Democrats in general, are not the ones she is speaking to...

I may be reading too much into the quote but I believe Hillary is talking to representatives that support her, the so called super delegates. When she is talking about holding her feet to the fire, I think she wants those that have pledged to support her, not anyone else.