Hillary's Candid Motto for Democratic Party: 'Represent Banks'

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/hillary-clinton-banks_b_5584870.html

In 1992, a 44-year-old attorney made the following remarkable assertion: "For goodness' sake, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks."

The attorney was Hillary Clinton. She made the statement to journalists during her husband's first campaign for president. Her legal representation of a shady savings and loan bank while working at a top corporate law firm in Arkansas (and her firm's relations with then-governor Bill Clinton) had erupted briefly into a campaign controversy.

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Members of elite media didn't make an issue of Clinton's bank comment probably because it set off no alarm bells. It sounded right to them, non-controversial, almost a truism.

Having been an attorney briefly myself, my reaction upon hearing her comment was: "I know nearly a hundred lawyers, but not one represents a bank." My lawyer friends worked for unions, tenants, immigrants, indigent criminal defendants, civil liberties, civil rights, battered women, prisoners on death row, etc. (Which explains why I wasn't a great fit in corporate media.)
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More importantly, Clinton's comment speaks to the decline of the Democratic Party as a force that identifies with the broad public, those who often get stepped on by big banks and unbridled greed. Her remark is an apt credo for a party leadership that has spent the last quarter-century serving corporate power (through Wall Street deregulation, media dereg, NAFTA-style trade pacts, etc.) as persistently as it spews out empty rhetoric about "the needs of working families."

[awake]

1. Please, taking something someone said 22 years ago out of context

and calling it a "Candid Motto for Democratic Party" is just Bull S*it. There are more than enough issues around Hillary that could be discussed today but I for one find this a none issue

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3. Since she's already gotten $7M from Goldman-Sachs alone...

... I'd say she's doubled down on representing banks.

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4. Lloyd Blankfein: "I held fundraisers for her."

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/wall-street-republicans-hillary-clinton-2016-106070.html?hp=t1

But the private consensus is similar to what Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said to POLITICO late last year when he praised both Christie — before the bridge scandal — and Clinton. “I very much was supportive of Hillary Clinton the last go-round,” he said. “I held fundraisers for her.”

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6. +100

K&R

[DURHAM D]

2. huff drivel

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5. The 1% have spoken.

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7. now up on consortiumnews--Hillary Clinton’s Corporatist Party

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/14/hillary-clintons-corporatist-party/