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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary isn't owned by anyone. [View all]frylock
(34,825 posts)136. Try and keep up. Bernie pulled in 3.5 milly from people like me in the last two days.
Bernie is now pulling in more cash than Hillary. He's got this shit covered. No need to solicit donations from these shitbags over at RMoney's old stomping grounds.
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It's facile. An indication of the lack of substantive arguments against her candidacy.
DanTex
Feb 2016
#1
I was responding to your "lack of substantive arguments against her candidacy" remark.
HerbChestnut
Feb 2016
#29
If you're talking about a position that he held 30+ years ago, then yeah, I do want to go there.
HerbChestnut
Feb 2016
#34
Of course you don't. And the guns either. At least we can agree that "owned by banks" is nonsense.
DanTex
Feb 2016
#37
I do, I am even married to a former bank employee. Sadly I don't think any of the one's I know
A Simple Game
Feb 2016
#92
I find it weird that people who don't support her just make these wild assumptions about
DanTex
Feb 2016
#69
He sure has a great connection with Lockheed Martin and he has maintained a relationship
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#57
Nope, it is true, the NRA donated $18,000 to defeat Sanders opponent when
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#159
Sanders does not take money from the NRA which is what you are inferring. That is a lie.
Punkingal
Feb 2016
#164
Go back and read my post again, I did not say he took the money, I said the NRA
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#165
Please list all his contributions from Lockheed Martin and the NRA.
Admiral Loinpresser
Feb 2016
#155
Did you see any place I stated he took money? He has talked about going after the defense spending
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#161
Bernie is honest about pork. Hillary lies like a rug about Wall Street and the IWR.
Admiral Loinpresser
Feb 2016
#162
Kinda weird now when I see these silly threads I have to look to see if it's the Hillary section
PatrynXX
Feb 2016
#90
So the Republicans would help her pay off the guys that helped her take the POTUS
Lucinda
Feb 2016
#68
I'm glad she is raising money. You'd better believe Bernie will need piles of it too
Lucinda
Feb 2016
#134
Try and keep up. Bernie pulled in 3.5 milly from people like me in the last two days.
frylock
Feb 2016
#136
How far do you think that would go in the GE. Tiny NH has already been hit with 100 million
Lucinda
Feb 2016
#139
Bernie is pulling more money than Hillary. Explain to me like I'm 5 years old..
frylock
Feb 2016
#144
So they are going to pass pro-business legislation that she wants passed, to pay off
Lucinda
Feb 2016
#123
Do you feel the Republicans hate Obama and try to block everything he does?
RichVRichV
Feb 2016
#135
The OP is correct. Hillary isn't owned by any one... she's owned by a LOT of people!
reformist2
Feb 2016
#5
It's more like rented, I agree. After the proper favors are granted politically, she will be done
Dragonfli
Feb 2016
#18
That Jury Is Pretty Much In... But We DO Know She'll Say Almost Anything For Votes...
WillyT
Feb 2016
#19
she is compromised by all of the money that she has taken from the titans of industry and commerce
virtualobserver
Feb 2016
#26
Agreed. She's more of a series of a short-term leases rather than a purchase.
Attorney in Texas
Feb 2016
#28
No one who gets big corporate donations EVER defies the corporations who made them.
Ken Burch
Feb 2016
#32
Owned implies she is a separate entity from that which does the owning, she is not owned....
JPnoodleman
Feb 2016
#43
She's using those big bank SOB's! Taking $250k a speech from them.. And that's all they're getting..
raindaddy
Feb 2016
#109
This is all Sanders has right now, impugn her integrity and claim he's running a clean campaign
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#111
I wonder why the people saying Hillary is owned by (fill in the blank), don't show the evidence.
betsuni
Feb 2016
#148
Clinton is forced to take the money? Clinton is forced to take money from those she claims
Jefferson23
Feb 2016
#160