{"id":182231,"date":"2015-11-15T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/15\/the-new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-out-hillary-on-wall-street\/"},"modified":"2015-11-15T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T03:06:00","slug":"the-new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-out-hillary-on-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/15\/the-new-york-times-editorial-board-calls-out-hillary-on-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Editorial Board Calls Out Hillary on Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed the last Democratic debate, and what I think probably does not matter, I am not an undecided voter.<\/p>\n

I will review it later.<\/p>\n

That being said, what the pundits say does typically make a difference, so the OP\/ED from the Times<\/i> criticizing Hillary’s answers on her relationship with Wall Street<\/a> is significant:<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton should have seen that Wall Street shot coming. Instead, she compounded the damage.<\/span>

<\/span>The former secretary of state was off to a sound outing in Saturday night\u2019s debate against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O\u2019Malley of Maryland. Friday\u2019s terrorist attacks in Paris dominated at first, allowing her to highlight her superior experience in world affairs. But it was those attacks that made her badly muffed response to questions about her fealty to Wall Street all the more jarring. Here\u2019s the exchange:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Sanders: \u201cI have never heard a candidate, never, who has received huge amounts of money from oil, from coal, from Wall Street, from the military-industrial complex, not one candidate say, oh, these campaign contributions will not influence me. I\u2019m going to be independent. Well, why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something. Everybody knows that. Once again, I am running a campaign differently than any other candidate. We are relying on small campaign donors, 750,000 of them, 30 bucks apiece. That\u2019s who I\u2019m indebted to.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Mrs. Clinton: \u201cWell John, [John Dickerson, the moderator] wait a minute. Wait a minute, he has basically used his answer to impugn my integrity. Let\u2019s be frank here.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Mr. Sanders: \u201cNo, I have not.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Mrs. Clinton: \u201cOh, wait a minute, senator. You know, not only do I have hundreds of thousands of donors, most of them small. And I\u2019m very proud that for the first time a majority of my donors are women, 60 percent. So, I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9\/11 when we were attacked. Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York. It was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>Her effort to tug on Americans\u2019 heartstrings instead of explaining her Wall Street ties \u2014 on a day that the scars of 9\/11 were exposed anew \u2014 was at best botched rhetoric. At worst it was the type of cynical move that Mrs. Clinton would have condemned in Republicans.<\/span>

<\/span>She should make a fast, thorough effort to explain herself by providing a detailed plan for how she would promote measures protecting middle-class Americans from another financial crisis.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has to be the lamest invocation of 911 for a bad policy since Bush invaded Iraq. (Which Hillary voted for, BTW)<\/p>\n

Her attempts to don the mantle of anti-Wall Street populism are unconvincing, and this is something that her opponents should focus on with a laser like focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed the last Democratic debate, and what I think probably does not matter, I am not an undecided voter. I will review it later. That being said, what the pundits say does typically make a difference, so the OP\/ED from the Times criticizing Hillary’s answers on her relationship with Wall Street is significant: Hillary …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,977,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-presidential-campaign","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182231"}],"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=182231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}