Clinton Inc., the most branded presidential candidate ever.

[cali]

The Clinton's long history and deep entanglements with Wall Street in particular, and corporate America in general, make Hillary Clinton unique. We've had Presidents who earned big bucks for speeches after leaving the presidency. We've never had one who made big bucks for speeches before entering the White House.


Hillary Clinton owes everything to corporate money. She has depended on it to fund her campaign's. Corporate money/wealthy donors paved Hillary's road to the White House to the tune of hundreds of millions. This is unprecedented. And Hillary owes her personal financial security to the same corporations and wealthy individuals.

These are corporations and individuals who seek to have a government and laws that are favorable to them. They spend billions to do that.

It is madness to pretend that this is irrelevant and that it's somehow ill mannered to bring it up.

[kristopher]

1. Great.

[enid602]

2. just some thoughts

FDR was born into the .1%. If I recall correctly, JFK came from money. From bootleggers, at that. Venezuela elected a bus driver as President, so he could get rid of the influence of the oligarchs and address income inequality. Maduro did shake things up, with predictable results. Elizabeth Warren has a $5.5MM house. Crazy world, ain't it?

[cali]

3. Yes, FDR was born into wealth. That is an entirely separate discussion.

It literally has nothing to do with my op.

[BigGLiberal]

6. So, you OP has nothing to do with wealth?

If that is true, then was this just another "Hillary is in bed with Wall Street" post? I ask only because I have been lurking for a while and I have read at least 5000 of this same post.

[cali]

7. It has to do with how entangled the Clintons are

with corporate money.

[CorporatistNation]

13. Clinton Incorporated Is Entirely Meritorious!

She has earned the title along with Billyboy. Together they have done more shilling for Corporate CA$H than any American in history ... The CA$H does not come without "strings" attached...

[artislife]

10. Gosh, there is a lot out there on the internet

You will sorely be disappointed with this site if the regurgitating of memes upsets you. All sides practice it.

[RiverLover]

9. Those are all wealthy people who genuinely give/gave a damn about others.

There is no comparison btn what FDR did for ALL Americans compared to the Clintons, who work tirelessly for Big Money, but only give lipservice for the populace.

They talk a good game, but never follow through.

I don't believe Hillary "evolves", either. I believe there are days she is truthful (like that day last year she told Ohioans that she is a centrist) and days she isn't. Most days, she isn't.

[Ferd Berfel]

4. CLinton has more corporate patches on her suit than a NASCA car driver

she stands for Status Quo, business as usual. That's not going to work this time

[Senator Tankerbell]

5. Her chief strategist is Joel Benenson

Look who he also works for:
http://www.bsgco.com/about-us#clients

[cali]

8. From a kos diary

<snip>
Clinton has won the Powerball jackpot. Nor have they invented a killer app. Instead, as the Simon Head piece shows, both Clintons have worked very hard at the family business of industrial scale graft and influence peddling. Big corporations pay both of them lots of money in "speaking fees,” but anybody with three brain cells to rub together knows that when a politician is accepting a six figure check from a big bank or corporation, they’re not being paid to speak. They're being paid to listen. The results of that remunerative practice are well illustrated by Head.

The Clinton foundation has many of the same big corporate and financial donors as the Clinton campaigns and super PACs as well. The opacity of its finances were a significant issue in the 2008 campaign, and opening the books to some degree was a condition of Clinton being named Secretary of State in 2009. This reluctantly bestowed peek inside its finances did not prevent at least the appearance of conflict of interest, however, as Head’s piece also illustrates.

The success of the Clinton’s business model is dependent on maintaining power to wield and influence to peddle. After Bill’s second term ended, it fell to Hillary to perform this task. A house in Westchester County was procured by the “dead broke” couple. A path magically appeared for Hillary to step into a Senate seat from New York (a state no doubt chosen entirely at random). Loud chatter about Hillary as a probable future presidential candidate soon started, and has never let up since. She thought she had the Oval Office in sight in 2008, with plenty of Wall Street’s money — excuse me, her constituents’ money — behind her, but she failed when it turned out Wall Street had more than one donkey in the race. But Hillary, never one to give up, landed the Secretary of State position. After leaving that sinecure to top up the family’s flagging fortune, she assumed the role of Future President in Waiting, to the full blare of trumpets heralding her inevitability. In this way, she has been able to maintain the power and influence the family business requires. And Bill has taken full advantage of it. Hillary Clinton’s ongoing quest for the Presidency is central to this business model. Her candidacy is in this sense their livelihood.

America, Inc.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are not unique to the world of corruption, of course. The American Republic has been awash in corruption since the Constitution first permitted only white men of property the franchise. Corruption has been the default state of our governing system, and the inventors of our republic recognized the reality and the danger going forward (while themselves benefiting from it, of course.) Today we are functionally an oligarchy, with the Democratic and Republican parties acting as divisions in the Governmental Affairs Department of America, Inc.

<snip>

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/31/1477674/-Enough

[Attorney in Texas]

11. k+r

[cali]

12. Kick. The elephant in the room.