Hillary Is Already TRIANGULATING Against Liberals

[Jack Rabbit]

160. I spent the day gathering a few more in that vein in addition to the one RickV posted

Why DOES Wall Street 'love' Hillary Clinton? (CNN)

As a debate maneuver, {invoking 9/11 in awswer to Senator Sanders' questions about Mrs. Clinton's political and financial ties to Wall Street} proved to be an effective answer that drew audience applause and changed the subject — for the moment. But it doesn't answer the question of who's giving money to Clinton, and what they expect in return.

One clue comes from the Open Secrets database of the Center for Responsive Politics watchdog group, which analyzed $37 million of the donations to Clinton's campaign committee — about 62% of the total — and found $3.2 million of that came from commercial banks and from securities, investment and financial firms, more than any other sector except lawyers and "retired" people who are sufficiently well-off to donate money, although they don't work.

Another index of the candidate's closeness to Wall Street comes from the website of the Clinton Foundation, which lists the places where Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton give speeches and how much they get paid for them. It turns out Hillary Clinton has spoken to Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Carlyle Investment Management and earned between $250,000 and $500,000 for each talk. That translates into a minimum of $1 million and as much as $2 million for giving four speeches

One wonders what pearls of wisdom could be worth such enormous sums. The answer, according to William Cohan, the author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World," is that the big banks see Clinton as one of their own.

Hillary Clinton’s Fake Tough Talk on Wall Street (Daily Beast)
The true love story of Hillary and Wall Street (Washington Examiner)
Hillary Can't Explain Wall Street Ties For A Reason (Daily Kos)
Don't Expect Hillary Clinton to Stand Up to Wall Street (New Republic)
Hillary Clinton Unveils Economic Agenda, but Can’t Shake Wall Street Questions (National Journal)

{F}or skeptics, especially on the Left, Clinton's own history as a senator from New York may give them some pause. At one point in the speech, Clinton derided the bank HSBC for enabling Latin American drug cartels to launder billions of dollars without proper oversight.

"There can be no justification or tolerance for this kind of criminal behavior," she said.

After the speech, the anti-Clinton super PAC America Rising quickly pointed out that in 2011. HSBC Securities Inc. paid Bil Clinton a $200,000 honorarium for a speech he gave in Key Largo, Florida. The bank has also donated between #500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.

While HSBC's lack of oversight did not come to light until 2013, its whiff of impropriety shows just how hard it continues to be for Clinton to disentangle her time as a New York politician with the tough-on-Wall-Street image she's trying to craft. At one point in the speech, a man in the audience shouted, "Senator Clinton, will you restore Glass-Steagall?" Security escorted him out, and the rest of the audience drowned out his shouts with applause for Clinton. Economist Alan Blinder, whom Clinton's campaign has hired as a policy adviser, told Reuters on Monday that Clinton will not try to reinstate the bank-break-up law.

As the primary campaign wears on, it will be harder for Clinton to avoid Democrats' lingering questions; eventually, she'll have to address her history, and even her regrets, from her time as a senator. There's still time for evolution.

I doubt that will satisfy you, ma'am, but I doubt you would be satisfied with anything that would further impugn Mrs. Clinton's alleged integrity. In any event, there is ample reason to suppose that Mrs. Clinton is ethically compromised in her dealings with Wall Street. These seems to be at least a substantial evidence to call her integrity into question.

I add one more link just for you, ma'am, for your consideration next time you use this word.