2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton IT aide to plead Fifth in email case [View all]Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)Do you know that Karl Rove started a smear campaign against Hillary, with the clear goal of driving down her approval numbers (which were quite high at one time)? Do you know that Bernie has played right into that smear campaign with his innuendos that Hillary has sold her soul to money interests? (A charge that has particular potency in the case of a woman, since it basically comes down to saying she's a whore.) Are you aware that those kinds of fees are normal for such high profile speakers?
And why do you care, at this late stage, about those stupid speeches. From what I've read from people who actually attended speeches of that kind, they tend to be pretty standard fare. I'm sure Hillary said a few complimentary things at most (not coming even close to the nefarious promises you're hinting at, though), and I'm equally sure that her enemies will twist and turn it into something unrecognizable if they were to get the transcripts. But in the end the matter is a simple one: there is no reason for the release of the transcripts. And there is particularly no reason to demand this kind of action from Hillary, and Hillary alone, when Bernie is not forthcoming about something as simple as his taxes, and Trump (at this point her real opponent, since Bernie will be done by next week) has not released any tax returns or been asked to release any other documents. It is absurd to have such a special set of rules just for Hillary. It's as if she's being asked to strip while the men remain clothed.