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   From: multiple.felonies@hillaryclinton.com   
      
   It is the nature of our political environment that the best   
   performance of one’s career can be ignored — and ruined —   
   because of a single remark. Hillary Clinton was sailing along in   
   the Democratic town hall hosted by CNN Wednesday night, sounding   
   thoughtful and at ease when — bam! — the viral disaster ensued:   
      
   ANDERSON COOPER: One of the things that Sen. [Bernie] Sanders   
   points to and a lot of your critics point to is you made three   
   speeches for Goldman Sachs. You were paid $675,000 for three   
   speeches. Was that a mistake? I mean was that a bad error in   
   judgment?   
      
   CLINTON: Look. I made speeches to lots of groups. I told them   
   what I thought. I answered questions.   
      
   COOPER: But did you have to be paid $675,000?   
      
   CLINTON: Well, I don’t know. That’s what they offered.   
      
   And if her feigned obliviousness to the access-buying game were   
   not infuriating enough, she let out yet another whopper:   
      
   CLINTON : You know every secretary of State that I know has done   
   [paid speeches].   
      
   COOPER: But (inaudible) for office they’re not running for an   
   office…   
      
   CLINTON: Well, I didn’t know…   
      
   COOPER: … have known.   
      
   CLINTON: To be honest I wasn’t — I wasn’t committed to running.   
   I didn’t know whether I would or not.   
      
   COOPER: You didn’t think you were going to run for president   
   again?   
      
   CLINTON: I didn’t. You know when I was secretary of State   
   several times I said you know I think I’m done. And you know, so   
   many people came to me, started talking to me.   
      
   Really? Even while secretary of state, as we know from her   
   emails, her political antennae were on high alert. And certainly   
   those who paid her exorbitant sums and donated to her foundation   
   believed that she would run for president. That is what drove up   
   her price.   
      
   The good Hillary Clinton — knowledgeable, occasionally   
   thoughtful (as when expounding on the centrality of gratitude in   
   her life) — is inseparable from the bad Hillary Clinton — often   
   dull and entirely incapable of hiding her greed. When she is   
   hitting her stride, one can imagine how impressive she might be   
   in a general election, but then fairly or not, she can be so   
   unforgettably awful that her strengths are ignored.   
      
   It is not surprising that Republicans pounced as soon as the   
   words “That’s what they offered” escaped her lips. “With her   
   incredibly tone deaf answer on her exorbitant speaking fees,   
   Hillary ‘Dead Broke’ Clinton gave New Hampshire voters a good   
   reason not to support her next Tuesday,” Jeff Bechdel of America   
   Rising said in a prepared statement. “The Clintons have lived at   
   the nexus of money and politics for the last quarter century,   
   and it’s one of the main reasons she is struggling so mightily   
   in the areas of trust, ethics, and honesty.”   
      
   Clinton likes to fancy herself as an innocent (Oh, gosh, they   
   just wanted to pay me a lot because what I say is so   
   interesting) or a victim. She insisted that the vast right-wing   
   conspiracy is still going strong: “Yes. It has gotten even   
   better funded. You know, they brought in some new multi-   
   billionaires to pump the money in. And, look, these guys play   
   for keeps. They want to control our country. . . . They salve   
   their consciences by giving big money to philanthropy, and, you   
   know, getting great pictures of them standing in front of   
   whatever charity they donated to.” Well, that’s an apt   
   description of her Wall Street backers as well.   
      
   Clinton sees herself as the put-upon do-gooder. She is entitled   
   to bend or disregard the rules because her motives are so pure,   
   you see. We cannot question her motives or her shortcuts since   
   she is, in her own mind, above reproach. Those motives always   
   entail her acquisition of great power and wealth. Coincidence?   
   Hardly.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-   
   turn/wp/2016/02/04/hillary-clinton-blind-to-her-own-greed-makes-   
   another-blunder/   
        
      
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