Aside from one public appearance, Hillary Clinton has completely vanished for more than a week. The media says she's been off fundraising, but in all honesty, they don't know where she is.
Her disappearance is highly unusual in the midst of such a heated presidential race and has given Donald Trump the opportunity to have the spotlight completely to himself.
Despite his public flap with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, he's pulled closer to Hillary in the polls. In fact, two polls now have Trump leading in the general election.
I'm not really sure what's going on with Hillary. Allegedly she will emerge on Labor Day and begin travelling with the press corps on her plane, which she hasn't been doing. This is supposedly intended to give the media more access to her.
We'll see if it really happens.
In the meatime, her absence is leading to quite a bit of speculation.
My thought is that she understands how deep her problems are, and that the nation can't bear four years of continuous scandal. She's been holed up strategizing with her closest confidants on how best to do the patriotic thing and bow out of the race.
The Republicans have already set the stage for her to use serious health problems as an acceptable excuse.
There's just a smidgen of a chance that that's what's happening, but we will never really know. Hillary has been as non-forthcoming as her opponent, who's so far declined to release his own health records--and more importantly, his tax returns.
This segues nicely into the topic of those three speeches Hillary gave to Goldman Sachs for $675,000.
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| This seems like a lot of cash, but it's only a fraction of what Hillary Clinton personally "earned" from Goldman-Sachs to "talk" to them three times. Who says bullshit walks? |
You're probably aware that she's repeatedly refused to release the transcripts, which raises the question, why? What could be in those speeches that she wants to hide from the public?
Perhaps the question should actually be: Were there really any speeches?
Is it possible that Goldman Sachs just slipped Hillary the money, and had her invoice them for the three exorbitant honorariums to cover their derrieres?
Surely by now, some enterprising reporter would have found someone who heard any of those three presentations and was willing to spill the beans.
That hasn't happened yet. But in this leaky world, I say it's virtually impossible for nothing to have come out.
You can't tell me that Goldman Sachs is such a tight ship that no one's ever talked anyone about those speeches for what's amounted to years now. Not one person who heard any of them has said a peep. Nonsense!
As an investigative reporter for decades, I know how ridiculous that really is.
It makes me believe there weren't really any speeches. And that makes it pretty easy not to talk about them.
Goldman Sachs simply gave Hillary two thirds of a million dollars for...well, it was obviously not for nothing. They wanted something.
If you can live with what that is, vote for her.
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