I am sincerely anticipating the start of this Presidential election cycle, I may wish it was over soon after but I think it will be a hoot for awhile at least, The Hildebeast has so many targets of opportunity for Trump to hit, even his missed attempts will be classic.
Sanders is trying to get her to release the transcripts of the speeches she gave to Wall Street audiences. Why? “When everybody agrees to do that, I will as well, because I think it’s important we all abide by the same standards.” What bullshit. Democratic primary voters see the obvious: Hillary is hiding behind a standard she invented.
What the other candidates have said to bankers isn’t the issue. No one expects Donald Trump to have been anything other than fulsome in his praise of Wall Street. He probably spoke mainly about himself anyway. What Sanders wants to know is if Clinton said one thing to the financial services industry and another to the public.
It’s also a question that Clinton could settle rather easily in her favor. Other than the most committed of Bernie Bros, does anyone really think the Hildebeast offered to sell her soul to Lloyd Blankfein, at least on stage? The transcripts won’t contain bombshells but platitudes—thank you so much for having me, it’s great to be here, Bill and I really appreciate the socially conscious investment and work you’re doing for young people around the world, diversity, inclusion, hot sauce, Chelsea built a clinic in Haiti, climate change, I’m a grandma, blah, blah, blah. You won’t be shocked by what she said. You’ll be bored.
The act of concealment transforms the banal into the insidious. I sometimes wonder if the Hildebeast does this just to give her rather humdrum and lackluster public life an infusion of excitement and danger, or to goad her enemies into overreaction. Well Trump is the right guy for that job, overreaction is his middle name. Thus the result of Hilde’s actions may turn out to be the very opposite of her intent.
“It is a vicious circle.” And the person responsible for keeping the circle going is none other than the candidate herself: circumspect, wary, so damaged by her years in the public eye that she trusts no one. And receives no trust in return.
( wrote Sarah Ellison last year in Vanity Fair)
Just think, If Trump wins the election it'll be the first time in history that a billionaire moved into public housing vacated by a black family! jus sayin'
