{"id":181874,"date":"2016-02-24T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/24\/what-an-unbelievably-transparent-cop-out\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:05:00","slug":"what-an-unbelievably-transparent-cop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/24\/what-an-unbelievably-transparent-cop-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What an Unbelievably Transparent Cop-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is why, if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination, she is likely to get beaten by Donald Trump<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton again refused to release transcripts of her paid speeches to big banks, telling a CNN town hall audience Tuesday night that she will only release her transcripts if her Republican opponents release theirs.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cEarlier tonight, I asked Senator Sanders: Will you give your transcripts of speeches?\u201d said host Chris Cuomo. \u201cHe said he doesn\u2019t have the bank speeches. If he can find any of the speeches that he did give for money, he will gladly give the transcripts up. So: Will you agree to release these transcripts? They have become an issue.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span> Clinton replied: \u201cSure, if everybody does it, and that includes the Republicans.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span> She continued: \u201cBecause we know they have given a lot of speeches.\u201d She then went on to offer a defense of her Wall Street regulatory plan.<\/span>

<\/span> And she asked: \u201cWhy is there one standard for me, and not for everybody else?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because you are claiming that you are not<\/b> in Wall Street’s pocket, and the Republicans are in Wall Street’s pockets as an article of faith?<\/p>\n

Because you have made a specific claim that you told them to “Cut it out”?<\/p>\n

Because you got over a half a million dollars<\/span><\/b> for your speeches?<\/p>\n

Because that answer makes you look like a whiny self-entitled jerk.<\/p>\n

Because you are f%$#ing running for f%$#ing President of the f%$#ing United f%$#ing States<\/span><\/b>?<\/p>\n

Even if you believe Hillary Clinton’s argument that she is likely to be more successful at getting things through Congress, which means that you have to ignore the fact that Bernie did more in the House and Senate than she did, this means that she is pretty damn near hopeless as a candidate.<\/p>\n

She is the Martha Coakley of Presidential campaigns.<\/p>\n

Letting her get the nomination likely to make Donald Trump President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is why, if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination, she is likely to get beaten by Donald Trump: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton again refused to release transcripts of her paid speeches to big banks, telling a CNN town hall audience Tuesday night that she will only release her transcripts if her Republican opponents release …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,965,978,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-hillary-clinton","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}