There is something profoundly wrong when a Democratic candidate for President has a long and sordid history of charging more for one speech than many Americans earn in their entire lives. There is something profoundly wrong when her pandering voice commands millions of dollars while the voices of working Americans are silenced by the people handing her those huge corporate checks. And there is something obscenely wrong when she angrily portrays herself as the victim when her greed for exorbitant “speaking fees” and Super PAC cash is exposed and justifiably criticized.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
When Hillary was initially confronted about the big paydays she enjoyed for her Goldman Sachs speeches and was asked whether she would release the transcripts, she claimed she would “look into it.”
She looked into it for a few microseconds of a Friedman Unit, then pointed her finger at every other corrupt corporate politician and said she’d come clean when they did.
Inspiring progressive leadership of such magnitude is why Clinton supporters have to keep clapping louder. It’s getting to be a tedious chore, but if they don’t clap louder, who will?
Thanks for the hint, Bill.
If Hillary is concerned about billionaire control of the political process, about billionaire control of the legislative process, about billionaire control of the courts and the corporate media and the regulatory agencies of the government, she has a very strange way of showing it. She’s been in the “leadership” of the Democratic Party since 1992 and hasn’t done a damn thing about any of it, she’s never going to acknowledge her complicity in it, she’s never going to admit her responsibility for the consequences of it.
Corporate politicians never suffer the consequences of their destructive agenda.
That’s our job.
It’s the job of students in debt for life to suffer the consequences of it, it’s the job of children with lead in their drinking water to suffer the consequences of it, it’s the job of the dying Middle Class to suffer the consequences of it, it’s the job of homeless veterans sleeping under bridges and minorities being hauled off to prison and elderly women eating cat food out of a can to suffer the consequences of it.
Have you seen enough of this corporate paradise YET?
Bernie’s observation that Wall Street and powerful corporate interests don’t just hand hundreds of millions of dollars to politicians for nothing was deeply offensive to the Queen of K Street. Hillary huddled with her campaign team, then huddled with her lobbyist friends, then huddled with her Super PAC check writers, then piously proclaimed, “All of this insinuation, innuendo is getting really old.”
I’ll tell you what’s getting really old, Hillary. 20 years of Clinton triangulation is getting really old, 30 years of military misadventures all over the Middle East is getting really old, 50 years of punching hippies is getting really old, 70 years of CIA crimes and coups and catastrophes is getting really old, 100 years of ravaging the environment is getting really old, 150 years of demonizing labor unions is getting really old, 200 years of Wall Street greed and fraud and economy-killing-crashes is getting really old.
THAT IS WHAT’S GETTING REALLY OLD.
The revolution starts now. Write it here, write it on social media, write it everywhere, write it across the sky so every American will see it.
The revolution starts now,
When you rise above your fear,
And tear the walls around you down,
The revolution starts now . . .