Sanders Whiffs On Giving Example Of Wall Street Money Influencing Clinton

[redstateblues]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sanders-clinton-wall-street-answer

That is the centerpiece of his campaign- just shows how it is empty rhetoric.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Perhaps Sanders was not prepared, again.

It's happened before.

[MoonRiver]

21. Ya think?

[CrowCityDem]

2. Swing and a miss. Strike three. The game is over.

[bobbobbins01]

3. OK, I got this:

[lagomorph777]

6. I'm a big Bernie supporter, but I was disappointed by this missed opportunity

Bernie should have known this question would be asked (again). It was asked in a way that was a beautiful gift, wrapped in a bow. But he didn't do his homework and didn't have a response. I had heard the Warren clip recently; his staff should have heard it too. Or they could have picked through her record and no doubt found plenty. Oh well.

[bobbobbins01]

7. Yeah, he could have nailed her.

But the Clinton people here are acting like because he missed the opportunity, it never happened. They are of course terribly wrong.

[lagomorph777]

16. Hillary Clinton Told Wall Street To ‘Cut It Out’—Not So Much, the Record Shows

Her legislation on banking and housing finance stalled as crisis escalated.
By Jeff Gerth
November 15, 2015

...described herself as going to Wall Street and saying, “Cut it out! Quit foreclosing on homes! Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors.”
A review of that 28-minute talk at an office of the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York shows Clinton ... gave a shout-out to her “wonderful donors” in the audience, and ...praised Wall Street for its role in creating the nation’s wealth...She said the brewing economic troubles weren’t mainly the fault of banks, “not by a long shot,”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-told-wall-street-to-cut-it-out-not-so-much-the-record-shows-213363

[EndElectoral]

19. Lots of examples -he just blanked on this. Not empty rhetoric at all. Just caught him off guard

Hurt him in the debate and I'm sure it's one of those things where he said afterwards - why didn't I mention the bankruptcy bill?

[lagomorph777]

22. He needs to start injecting these easily findable facts into his speeches and debates

This ain't rocket science. C'mon, Bernie!

[redstateblues]

9. Unfortunately for Sanders supporters

he couldn't do the lifeline thing like on that "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" show.

[lagomorph777]

14. 2 seconds on Google gave me this:

As a senator, Hillary Clinton was hands-off on Wall Street

...She took a mostly hands-off approach to Wall Street regulation. With banks enjoying a new era of deregulation that her husband helped create, a neutralized Clinton represented a win for the financial services industry and its perpetual effort to free itself from Washington’s hand.

The Boston Globe reviewed eight years of lobbying disclosure forms for the four financial services firms that donated the most money to Hillary Clinton while she was in the Senate. The review examined which banking and finance bills those banks cared the most about, and whether she took a position on them.

The junior senator from New York rarely signed on to bills related to the financial services industry ...


https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/01/16/clinton-record-wall-street-laissez-faire/Z2a3iOsj40wryeRN2iT6qK/story.html

C'mon Bernie, you can do better!!

[lagomorph777]

17. Should have been unnecessary - this is one of his main topics

and a few minutes with my buddy Google would have left him much better prepared.

[senz]

4. Hey little army: is this today's talking point?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511740784

[redstateblues]

8. Nope- I was still asleep when that was posted

Although it is worth repeating since Bernie has made such a big effen deal about it

[IamMab]

5. An empty (rumpled) suit. nt

[Sheepshank]

10. Its all about sound bites, and reality has nothing to do with it. n/t

[NorthCarolina]

11. It's a set-up question and he knows it.

Were he to commit then he would be asked for proof, and how do you "prove" beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's a trap, and he isn't falling for it. He does communicate quite well the association of corporate money in DC and the resultant pro-corporate legislation that comes out of DC. That influence is plainly evident. Now all you have to do is follow the corporate cash to the "elected public servants" to see who's in on the game.

[reddread]

12. whats a few million dollars, anyway?

wouldnt turn my head.

[R B Garr]

13. So he can't or won't name names of evil Wall Street

execs he would prosecute, although his campaign platform is based on calling some anonymous people frauds. Who are they? What are their crimes?

He can't describe how he would break up the banks although that is one of his key platform applause lines.

He can't name one example of Wall Street influencing Clinton, although he has attacked her for months with his generalized smears.

Those are just basic vetting questions based on his OWN talking points, yet he cannot back up his own attacks! He obviously just wants to hear the applause his lines get. He cannot or will not provide any substance to them. What a phony!

[Jefferson23]

15. She takes the money, that's all you need to know. To listen to your arguments, we should not

bother with campaign finance reform..we just need to believe in Democrats.

This is the most infantile head in the sand attempt I have witnessed thus far from
Hillary supporters.

Dodd Frank is not strong enough to prevent another crisis, nor was anyone at
the top prosecuted..yet they paid 5 billion in fines.

[pdsimdars]

18. I liked the one someone posted yesterday

It boiled down to

(1) She said single payer was inevitable.
(2) She got something like $14 million from the lobbyists
(3) and now she says we will NEVER have single payer.

Hmmmmmm. . . .

I personally like that story Elizabeth Warren told about Hillary and the Bankruptcy Bill.

If you can simply dismiss those, you're not paying attention.

[EndElectoral]

20. Becasue Bernie blanked, they believe the issue does not exist when a ten second search on Google

is all one needs for plenty of examples.

[Stallion]

23. ...And She Nailed Bernie on Changing His Vote for the NRA AFTER Getting their Support

funny as hell