2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders Whiffs On Giving Example Of Wall Street Money Influencing Clinton
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sanders-clinton-wall-street-answer
That is the centerpiece of his campaign- just shows how it is empty rhetoric.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)It's happened before.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)bobbobbins01
(1,681 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Bernie should have known this question would be asked (again). It was asked in a way that was a beautiful gift, wrapped in a bow. But he didn't do his homework and didn't have a response. I had heard the Warren clip recently; his staff should have heard it too. Or they could have picked through her record and no doubt found plenty. Oh well.
bobbobbins01
(1,681 posts)But the Clinton people here are acting like because he missed the opportunity, it never happened. They are of course terribly wrong.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Her legislation on banking and housing finance stalled as crisis escalated.
By Jeff Gerth
November 15, 2015
...described herself as going to Wall Street and saying, Cut it out! Quit foreclosing on homes! Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors.
A review of that 28-minute talk at an office of the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York shows Clinton ... gave a shout-out to her wonderful donors in the audience, and ...praised Wall Street for its role in creating the nations wealth...She said the brewing economic troubles werent mainly the fault of banks, not by a long shot,
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-told-wall-street-to-cut-it-out-not-so-much-the-record-shows-213363
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)Hurt him in the debate and I'm sure it's one of those things where he said afterwards - why didn't I mention the bankruptcy bill?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)This ain't rocket science. C'mon, Bernie!
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)he couldn't do the lifeline thing like on that "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" show.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...She took a mostly hands-off approach to Wall Street regulation. With banks enjoying a new era of deregulation that her husband helped create, a neutralized Clinton represented a win for the financial services industry and its perpetual effort to free itself from Washingtons hand.
The Boston Globe reviewed eight years of lobbying disclosure forms for the four financial services firms that donated the most money to Hillary Clinton while she was in the Senate. The review examined which banking and finance bills those banks cared the most about, and whether she took a position on them.
The junior senator from New York rarely signed on to bills related to the financial services industry ...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/01/16/clinton-record-wall-street-laissez-faire/Z2a3iOsj40wryeRN2iT6qK/story.html
C'mon Bernie, you can do better!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)and a few minutes with my buddy Google would have left him much better prepared.
senz
(11,945 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Although it is worth repeating since Bernie has made such a big effen deal about it
IamMab
(1,359 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)Were he to commit then he would be asked for proof, and how do you "prove" beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's a trap, and he isn't falling for it. He does communicate quite well the association of corporate money in DC and the resultant pro-corporate legislation that comes out of DC. That influence is plainly evident. Now all you have to do is follow the corporate cash to the "elected public servants" to see who's in on the game.
reddread
(6,896 posts)wouldnt turn my head.
R B Garr
(16,976 posts)execs he would prosecute, although his campaign platform is based on calling some anonymous people frauds. Who are they? What are their crimes?
He can't describe how he would break up the banks although that is one of his key platform applause lines.
He can't name one example of Wall Street influencing Clinton, although he has attacked her for months with his generalized smears.
Those are just basic vetting questions based on his OWN talking points, yet he cannot back up his own attacks! He obviously just wants to hear the applause his lines get. He cannot or will not provide any substance to them. What a phony!
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)bother with campaign finance reform..we just need to believe in Democrats.
This is the most infantile head in the sand attempt I have witnessed thus far from
Hillary supporters.
Dodd Frank is not strong enough to prevent another crisis, nor was anyone at
the top prosecuted..yet they paid 5 billion in fines.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)It boiled down to
(1) She said single payer was inevitable.
(2) She got something like $14 million from the lobbyists
(3) and now she says we will NEVER have single payer.
Hmmmmmm. . . .
I personally like that story Elizabeth Warren told about Hillary and the Bankruptcy Bill.
If you can simply dismiss those, you're not paying attention.
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)is all one needs for plenty of examples.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)funny as hell