2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe question finally asked
By Lawrence O'Donnell. The question I have always hoped a reporter would ask:
If nothing is illegal or even suspect, without the possibility of an issue, then why is it illegal for a sitting president, member of the House or Senate or any other federal official, to give a $250,000, thirty minute speech at Goldman Sachs like Clinton has given?
Awesome.
msongs
(67,441 posts)retired
beedle
(1,235 posts)If it's innocent, then what difference does it make?
There must be reasons why you can't give paid speeches while in government ... what are they and why would they not apply when 'between government jobs'?
After all, these are innocent $250K speeches ... so why shouldn't Hillary continue to give them now while she's running? She's not in government now ... so what reason do you have why she shouldn't?
Joob
(1,065 posts)Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
think
(11,641 posts)beedle
(1,235 posts)that when Chris Hayes was interviewing Tad Devine, when he was talking about Obama and comparing what Hillary is doing now to what Obama was doing in 2008, he said something like "All the things you claim of US can also be applied to Obama" ... the exact wording escapes me, but the use of "US" when he was talking abut the Hillary campaign was pretty noticeable.
Maybe it was just an innocent slip, but he certainly seemed a whole lot more confrontational with Devine that he was with the Hillary surrogate that he interviewed next.
He also let the Hillary guy get away with the nonsense about Hillary being further ahead than Obama at this time ... which is a spin on the truth. Because of the different primary schedule, while Clinton was only half as far behind in pledged delegates (Hillary was behind by about 130 delegates) at that time the number of delegates left from which Hillary could catch up was only 566 ... by comparison, Bernie is down around 200 (240 by some counts, so about twice as far behind in won delegates) but Bernie has around 1900 delegates left from which to catch up (ie: over three times the number Hillary was left with.)
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)it was so obvious
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)......... So let's see what mayhem erupts tomorrow.... ?