Clintons Paid $153 Million for speaknig fees (Obama, financial crisis, state, support)

[Clark Park]

News Flash:


All politicians of national stature rake in millions of dollars in speaker's fees, book deals, etc.


ALL.

[carcrazy67]

I have no problem with Clinton or other politicians speaking and being paid to do so. That being said, I don't believe that there is anything she could have said to Goldman Sachs to "earn" $675,000 for a few speeches. However, as President, she would be in a position to be "helpful." If she had charged, say, 25k, nobody with give this a second thought, however at $675,000, there is the appearance of impropriety. With some politicians you might just chalk it up as poor judgement but with Hillary (who I believe to be dishonest to her core), I can't help but believe there is a lot more to it.

[jamies]

All career politicians are corrupt criminals. All. No exceptions.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by carcrazy67

I have no problem with Clinton or other politicians speaking and being paid to do so. That being said, I don't believe that there is anything she could have said to Goldman Sachs to "earn" $675,000 for a few speeches. However, as President, she would be in a position to be "helpful." If she had charged, say, 25k, nobody with give this a second thought, however at $675,000, there is the appearance of impropriety. With some politicians you might just chalk it up as poor judgement but with Hillary (who I believe to be dishonest to her core), I can't help but believe there is a lot more to it.

EXACTLY. Theres nothing she could say in a speech thats worth that much. Period.

I could see 100K at the most. These sorts of numbers? Only a fool would think theres nothing inappropriate going on.

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Polling is what the people want.
That doesn't mean the people will get what they want.

They are still discovering "discrepancies" in the Iowa caucus results.
And by golly, by gosh, all those "errors" were in Clinton's favor !!!

Clinton is going to be on the ballot, not Bernie.
TPTB will see to that.

Actually, many were in Bernie's favor and that is why the Clinton campaign was actually the first to contact the Iowa Democratic Party about them.

This the problem with having such a deep bias, You report what you believe rather than what you know. Then again, that Coin Flip lie was reported by the media for like 4 days straight before it got corrected.

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by carcrazy67

I have no problem with Clinton or other politicians speaking and being paid to do so. That being said, I don't believe that there is anything she could have said to Goldman Sachs to "earn" $675,000 for a few speeches. However, as President, she would be in a position to be "helpful." If she had charged, say, 25k, nobody with give this a second thought, however at $675,000, there is the appearance of impropriety. With some politicians you might just chalk it up as poor judgement but with Hillary (who I believe to be dishonest to her core), I can't help but believe there is a lot more to it.

Originally Posted by greywar

EXACTLY. Theres nothing she could say in a speech thats worth that much. Period.

I could see 100K at the most. These sorts of numbers? Only a fool would think theres nothing inappropriate going on.

Sarah Palin's speaking fee is 100,000. If she can charge that as a governor and VP nominee, I would assume Hillary can charge much more as a First Lady of a state/nation, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State.

As others have pointed out though, that fee can be negotiated at a premium and Clinton's team got as much as possible out of Banks that obviously had the money to pay.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by dsjj251

Sarah Palin's speaking fee is 100,000. If she can charge that as a governor and VP nominee, I would assume Hillary can charge much more as a First Lady of a state/nation, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State.

I'm a new member, but I've been reading threads for a long time. I can't remember agreeing with anything in any of your posts that I've read. I also think Hillary is one of the most vile human beings on the planet.

That said, I have to give you credit where credit is due. I 100% agree with the above, the first paragraph of your post. Also...Palin's 100k fee...a sad commentary on that industry. She's so inarticulate. The speech she gave endorsing Trump (I'm not a Trump fan)....cringeworthy. I couldn't listen to it for very long.

[Wintergirl80]

It seems like an outrageous amount of money for speaking fees in my opinion, both for Hillary and Palin. How can anything they say be worth that amount of money?

[GregW]

I believe that Wall street is OWNED by the Republicans and these same financiers, through PACs and speaking fees rent the Democrats. That way the financiers control both sides of the politics to their benefit and our cost. The Clintons will never be accepted, no matter how much money the acquire, by the financial upper class. To these people the Clintons are nothing more than hired help.


FWIW and that is quite a lot, I have never heard of senator Sanders taking huge speaking fees.

[le roi]

the speaking fees alone are not a big deal

but when you consider who they're from -- and her generous attitude towards policy issues that impact those firms -- it just looks like she is blatantly ought and paid for.