A 2013 Politico article entitled "Lament of the Plutocrats" provides a second-hand glimpse into the content of one of the speeches that Hillary Clinton did for Goldman Sachs. It evidently included“a repudiation of some of the angry anti-Wall Street rhetoric emanating from liberals rallying behind the like of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).” As the article states:
But Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop.
The article also provides a glimpse into the relationship between Wall Street and President Obama. Evidently the financial community was disappointed with what they got for the money they contributed to Obama’s campaign. The article reports that Clinton spent a good amount of time reassuring the audience that she would be more responsive to their needs than Obama has been. (Just what we need, right?)
It’s an interesting read, and makes pretty clear why Hillary is going to be very reluctant to reveal the content of these speeches. Given the amount of heat that is being generated nowadays about corruption of the political process by the financial community, I think that those transcripts are going to be very damaging to the Clinton campaign, and possibly a death-blow to her Presidential prospects. I think at the very least Hillary supporters ought to look hard at what we know, and reexamine the degree of denial they have about her claims of independence.