Hillary Clinton Lies, Distorts, and Deceives:

[amborin]

Surely Hillary Clinton Knows Why Wall Street Pays Her

According to Bloomberg, Hillary was paid $12 million in the 16 months after leaving her role as US secretary of state. Knowing she'd likely run for president, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley (and other big Wall Street corporations) gladly paid her $2.9 million in speaking fees alone. The same Wall Street corporations then gave her campaign super PACs millions more. Coincidence?

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Clinton is surely aware that Wall Street won't give politicians millions without expecting something big in return.

Hillary Clinton was asked if she would release the transcripts of her $600,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs (a bank that just agreed to pay $5 billion for mortgage fraud). She laughed and turned away. Political pop quiz: Would those transcripts reveal: A) Clinton telling Goldman Sachs, "cut out that mortgage fraud right now" or B) Clinton pandering for super PAC campaign money?

Clinton distorted Bernie Sanders' single-payer health-care plan in a deceitful way. She emphasized the billions in taxes that would be needed to fund a single-payer system without mentioning the many billions more that would be saved by eliminating individual and company health-care premiums. As a well-informed advocate of health-care reform, she's surely aware single-payer countries provide generally superior health care for less than half of what we pay - for everyone. She's also surely aware single-payer would cost the giant health insurance corporations billions in profits. According to The Intercept, from 2013 to 2015, Clinton took in $2.8 million (on top of the above $2.9 million) from 13 paid speeches to the health-care industry. Does she honestly expect the American people to trust her judgment about single-payer health care?

Clinton conveniently reversed her positions on several big issues including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), immigration, gun control, the Keystone XL pipeline, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Iraq war and same-sex marriage. In each of these "evolutions," she went from a less popular position (among liberal Democrats) to a more popular one. Coincidence? She insists her flip-flops were motivated by new or better information, but she often evades citing clear examples. What new information did she suddenly discover about same-sex marriage that changed her mind other than polls showing growing public support among liberal Democrats?

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34700-hillary-clinton-s-deliberate-deceit

[HassleCat]

1. It's just campaigning

Raking in big money, cozying up to special interests, distorting the opponent's record... That's all considered routine, business as usual, even admirable. Politicians are expected to be tough, and that means running a tough campaign.

[nichomachus]

2. Yeah -- in a banana republic n/t

[EdwardBernays]

3. Being tough

and being corrupt, are NOT the same thing...

You know what's TOUGH? Turning away money from special interest. Continuing to call yourself a Democratic Socialist even when many in your party say it will doom you.

Being part of the status quo is EASY.