Corruption alert! Hillary gets $260K for speaking to the American Camping Association.

[DanTex]

24. And I'll tell you what.

I'm not going to pretend that the influence of big banking isn't corrosive. And yet, as I've pointed out before, the amount that Hillary has raised from bankers totals 3.4% of her total campaign fundraising. Basically, a tiny fraction. The "Hillary is owned by bankers" meme is almost wholly false.

Here's my challenge for you. I first "met" you on DU from your posts in I/P, which I found excellent and agreed with close to 100%. You must understand that when it comes to I/P Bernie is at most marginally better than Hillary. He's not going to call it apartheid. He's not going to call the war crimes war crimes. He's not going to call for ending the billions in military aid, or even making the military aid contingent on any kind of change in policy.

Given that, and given that you obviously take the I/P situation very seriously, how can you treat Bernie as anything but another flawed politician? And if you do, why do you seem to reject Hillary, who is also a flawed politician, with such vigor? At some level, you are a political realist, otherwise you would be decrying Bernie for his stance on I/P (and guns, and the F-35). But political realism also implies understanding that Hillary is not only the most likely candidate to beat the GOP, but also that given GOP obstruction in congress, the difference between a Hillary and a Bernie presidency would be minimal.

Do you really think that single payer is going to get through congress? Or a 0.5% financial transaction tax? Or breaking up the big banks or even re-instating Dodd Frank? No, it's not. What this election is about is whether we continue the Obama path of doing the best we can in the face of GOP opposition, or handing over the presidency to a Republican who will roll back all the progress we've made, go back to Reaganomics and appoint right-wing SC justices that will haunt us for a generation.