{"id":181983,"date":"2016-01-24T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/24\/well-isnt-that-special\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:45:00","slug":"well-isnt-that-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/24\/well-isnt-that-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Isn&#8217;t That Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"197\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/152786370?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In response to a request for transcripts of her extremely well remunerated speeches to Goldman Sach is <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/01\/23\/clinton-goldman-sachs-laugh\/\">a dismissive laugh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">After Hillary Clinton spoke at a town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday, I asked her if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. She laughed and turned away.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Clinton has recently been on the defensive about the speaking fees she and her husband have collected. Those fees total over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/16\/us\/politics\/clintons-reportedly-earned-30-million-in-the-last-16-months.html?_r=0\">$125 million<\/a> since 2001.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Her rival Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has raised concerns in particular over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/22\/us\/politics\/in-race-defined-by-income-gap-hillary-clintons-wall-street-ties-incite-rivals.html?_r=0\">$675,000 she made from Goldman Sachs<\/a>, an investment bank that has regularly used its influence with government officials to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2013-09-04\/how-the-bank-lobby-loosened-u-s-reins-on-derivatives\">win<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/how-wall-street-defanged-dodd-frank\/\">favorable<\/a> policies<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">During one of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Clinton reportedly  reassured the crowd and told them that banker-bashing was unproductive  and foolish, according to a <i>Politico<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2013\/12\/wall-street-white-house-republicans-lament-of-the-plutocrats-101047\">report<\/a> based on accounts offered by several attendees. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">When asked by the Des Moines Register on Thursday if she regretted her decision to make money from speaking to various interest groups, Clinton compared herself to President Barack Obama, noting that significant campaign donations from Wall Street did not stop him from passing the Dodd-Frank reform law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the Obama administration did in fact go easy on Wall Street by refusing to criminally prosecute the major financial institutions responsible for the 2008 economic crisis. And Dodd-Frank, many critics say, does not go far enough in preventing systemic risk.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clinton does not want a transcript of that speech released. <\/p>\n<p>It is almost certainly something that she does not want to see the light of day, because it almost certainly a declaration of common cause with the banksters.<\/p>\n<p>I rather do hope that someone recorded a cell phone video of her speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a request for transcripts of her extremely well remunerated speeches to Goldman Sach is a dismissive laugh: After Hillary Clinton spoke at a town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday, I asked her if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. She laughed and turned away.Clinton &hellip;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-hillary-clinton","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181983"}],"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=181983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}