The real problem with Hillary's speech transcripts

[TheDormouse]

Here's the deal with those transcripts of speeches to Wall Street firms that Hillary Clinton still refuses to release. It's not that there's likely to be anything anybody wasn't expecting in them. At worse, if they were released she would be mildy embarrassed for everyone to see that she gives a variation of the same speech all the time--and gets paid very handsomely for it.

No, the real problem is that her stonewalling over what's almost certainly nothing makes her look secretive and dishonest in some viewers' eyes. If she has nothing to hide, why is she hiding this information?, they will say.

Just release the transcripts, and the story goes away.

[Jarqui]

1. Hillary is going to do what she always does:

whatever course of action she thinks will get her the most votes. If a few more folks think she's dishonest, so be it. 60% of the country is there already.

[Trust Buster]

2. Her future transcripts will bear the heading: President Hillary Rodham Clinton.....LOL

You were probably one of those people that demanded to see President Obama's college transcripts. What is it with transcripts and you folks ?

[TheDormouse]

7. I don't give a flyin feck abt her speech transcripts--did u actually read the OP? nt

[panader0]

16. What is it with you people don't care about the truth?

[agracie]

3. Or maybe the story does NOT go away, and only gets more interesting...

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. The problem is that there's been plenty of time to scrub them.

I couldn't care less if they released them at this juncture, to be blunt. Even if they were legit, would anyone actually be surprised if they were chock-full of corporate brown-nosing? Or, more importantly, that they would actually change anyone's mind?

[Downwinder]

5. Watergate did not take Nixon out, the coverup did.

[Trust Buster]

9. Watergate was about public employees obstructing justice.

So few are familiar with our history.

[upaloopa]

6. No don't release the transcripts. There is no need to

Why should Hillary give her detractors more stuff to rummage through.

No you are not going to get to do that deal with it.

They are never going to bring her down

History will remember the 45th President was Hillary Clinton. Her detractors won't even be footnotes.

[TheDormouse]

8. bcz by refusing to release them ur just giving them more ammunition nt

[Trust Buster]

10. Yeah, that's what you care about. Republicans having more ammunition....LOL

Did your nose just grow longer ?

[seabeyond]

13. Next you demand her diary. Why aren't we making this demand of all candidates to be able to hear

anything, read all, regardless, just cause we want it. Ridiculous. Petulant little tantrums demanding something that is not yours and then pissed and accusatory when they do not get their way.

[upaloopa]

14. I don't know what that means but her detractors will always be

her detractors. Hillary has lived her public life with detractors. These new ones are cut of the same cloth.

[Segami]

11. What Does Hillary Clinton's REFUSAL To Release Her Transcripts And Her AA FIREWALL Have In Common?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511462831

[seabeyond]

12. She is not stone walling. Transcripts are not yours to demand. You do not get to peek in her diary

either. Or read her texts or record her phone calls, just cause you want to.

[TheDormouse]

17. You could make the same argument abt medical records & tax returns

yet most serious candidates release those pieces of personal private information.

[seabeyond]

20. I want to see what Sanders said while tlaking to staffers. I demand it. They stole data. Give me.

I want!!!

[Dem2]

15. Just submit to having your phone lines tapped

I mean - if you have nothing to hide...

Said by every Bush supporting Republican back in the day, many of whom realized the stupidity of this and supported Ron Paul, then Rand, and now many of these "libertarians" are supporting Bernie. I see irony here.

[cosmicone]

18. Some records get stuck on the "transcripts" track

when the party has long been over and cleaning staff is picking up the empty beer cans and confetti.

[anotherproletariat]

19. Except no one is talking about it except on DU. Thoses pushing here are not going to be won over...

You're right, there really is no reason for her to release them. Once the primary is over, it won't be an issue at all.

[Punkingal]

22. Well, the New York Times, who endorsed her, said she should release them.

[DanTex]

21. It's not a "story." Nobody cares about the speech transcripts. She's beating Bernie

handily in the primary, why release anything else?