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Hot Topics The Top Donors to Hillary Clinton’s Super PACs/Houston Chronicle (Original Post) Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2015 OP
Suuuure she is...... And fix Wall Street too, by telling them sternly to "cut it out" peacebird Dec 2015 #1
Clinton and Obama were talking about taking on citizens united well hefore Sanders ever uttered a seabeyond Dec 2015 #2
Talk is cheap. Where's the actual action? hobbit709 Dec 2015 #3
No one can do anything until the Supreme crt is in place to readdress the issue. Hence, Sanders fail seabeyond Dec 2015 #4
all talk. that's hillary and unfortunately at time, Mr. Obama. Talking is cheap roguevalley Dec 2015 #6
They have accomplished a hell of a lot more than Sanders. And they do not play off seabeyond Dec 2015 #7
Yes we are crazy for wanting to end big money in politics. End poverty and reduce rhett o rick Dec 2015 #10
Ending big money is a Democratic issue, not a Sanders issue. He doesn't own it. Others in front! seabeyond Dec 2015 #11
Clinton is grabbing big money for her campaign, for her foundation, and for her personal wealth rhett o rick Dec 2015 #13
Not anymore it isn't AgingAmerican Dec 2015 #15
Who will Hillary betray? Surely not the billionaires who back her campaign. That leaves us. Scuba Dec 2015 #5
Very logical, Mr. Spock. nm rhett o rick Dec 2015 #9
Hot Topic is the top donor? melman Dec 2015 #8
Donors. Plural. Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2015 #12
Hillary Goldman Sachs Clinton promises to pull up the ladder... 99Forever Dec 2015 #14
Cheryl Saban NOT EMPLOYED $1,000,000. pangaia Dec 2015 #16
Panhandling? Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2015 #17
LOL :>)) pangaia Dec 2015 #18
The Sabans are LA movers and shakers CoffeeCat Dec 2015 #19
Guess I forgot the sarcasm thingy. pangaia Dec 2015 #20
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Dec 2015 #21
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
2. Clinton and Obama were talking about taking on citizens united well hefore Sanders ever uttered a
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 12:51 PM
Dec 2015

Word on the issue. I have no problem our candidate playing by the same rules to win.... while recognizing the need to address the issue. Seems merely pragmatic and smart to make sure a win, than to cut off the nose to spite the face.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
4. No one can do anything until the Supreme crt is in place to readdress the issue. Hence, Sanders fail
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 01:07 PM
Dec 2015

And his continued fail all along the way. He is the one that is all talk, and no follow thru. There is a process that must legally be followed. Him standing up and waving a wand accomplishes nothing.

He is all talk on most all his issues, which is the reason I trust him least.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
6. all talk. that's hillary and unfortunately at time, Mr. Obama. Talking is cheap
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 01:26 PM
Dec 2015

and that is why I will vote for Bernie. Obama and Clinton pushed through the TPP. How's that for action?

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
7. They have accomplished a hell of a lot more than Sanders. And they do not play off
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 01:29 PM
Dec 2015

discontent with grandiose promises that will never come close to see the light of day.

I can stand at the podium and make all kinds of declarations, too. Doesn't mean anything will even reasonably happen.

In all the decades Sanders has been doing this, he has accomplished little to nothing.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
10. Yes we are crazy for wanting to end big money in politics. End poverty and reduce
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 02:06 PM
Dec 2015

infant moralities. We are crazy because 22 veterans commit suicide every single day and we don't like it. We are crazy to want to stop the fracking for Chevron profits while destroying the environment. We are crazy because we want to save SS and not turn it over to Goldman-Sachs. Crazy to not want our family and friends (the 99%) being sent to die in foreign lands for corporate profits. It will be a hard fight but we are willing to fight. Sadly we have to fight Democrats that want to keep the status quo that put us where we are.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
13. Clinton is grabbing big money for her campaign, for her foundation, and for her personal wealth
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 02:31 PM
Dec 2015

which has grown tremendously in the last 15 years making her a member in good standing of the 1% club. The club that has brought us 50,000,000 Americans living in poverty. She says she is against big money but she is sure using it.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
14. Hillary Goldman Sachs Clinton promises to pull up the ladder...
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 02:43 PM
Dec 2015

... right after she gets done using it. It is HER turn, after all.

So all you prols kindly, shut the fuck up about HER gawd given RIGHT to rake in the cash.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
16. Cheryl Saban NOT EMPLOYED $1,000,000.
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 03:18 PM
Dec 2015

Where does somebody who is unemployed get $1,000,000 to give to somebody else, to another multi-millionaire, to boot?

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
19. The Sabans are LA movers and shakers
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 04:11 PM
Dec 2015

They are among the wealthiest in the state of California.

Edited to add:

This is interesting: Saban National Political Leadership Training Seminar
Saban sponsors the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee's Saban National Political Leadership Training Seminar, a series of semiannual seminars in Washington to provide college student activists for three days of intensive pro-Israel advocacy training.[31] The seminars provide up to 300 students from a hundred campuses with training in order to "prepare for challenges and opportunities on their campuses and [the students] left Washington prepared to mobilize for legislative and electoral impact during the next school year and into campaign '08."[32] Among the prominent figures to have addressed the seminars are Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Mark Kirk and academics David Makovsky, Robert Satloff and Dennis Ross.[32]



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