I don' understand this damn "pay for play" accusations against Hillary..........

[loyalsister]

3. It's not an unreasonable spin

Those inferences are exactly the basis of opposition to Citizens United and other dirty campaign finance practices. It is not a leap for anyone to latch on to the possibility that campaign contributions are bribes for political favors (pay to play). The SC decisions are based on the flawed idea that you have to be able to prove bribary for donations with expectations to be considered illegal.

The thing that confuses me is when this is part and parcel to the largest problems in our political system, why would the Clinton foundation do that? They did us a great disservice by making it easy to make the natural pay to play assumptions we make when we talk about the Koch brothers buying our government.

I am getting more encouraged by Hillary Clinton as a candidate, but I refuse to be like the guy I talked with recently who defended Trump's talk about how he would probably be dating his daughter if they weren't related.

Their practices left room for this kind of speculation. It is forgivable, but I won't pretend that it is unreasonable for people to continue to make pay to play assumptions.