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In reply to the discussion: MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog [View all]karynnj
(61,022 posts)Not all financial institutions as "wall street", but Goldman Sachs is. Note that Hillary Clinton herself used the phrase herself in calling for Wall street reform. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/wall-street/
As I pointed out, most politicians (all members of Congress) are not allowed to make paid speeches -- not for anyone. There are very few people in Clinton's position in 2013 and 2014 - out of any office that would preclude her getting paid for speeches and very likely to be the next President. Among Democrats, she is unique on this.
Sanders was wrong to say she was unqualified for that and a laundry list of thing ranging from Iraq to the Panama trade deal, etc. On Wall Street he qualified his statement with "IF". It was an angry response to him interpreting things she said as calling him unqualified. He was totally wrong to do that, but it was not because she was a woman. Had Hillary Clinton been the President in the 1990s and Bill Clinton his opponent, there is no reason to think he would not have angrilly said the same thing.
Not to mention, the entire subtext of the 3 am commercial in 2008 was Obama was not up to being the President - pretty much the same thing, though Clinton did not state it outright.