Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused oil companies of manipulating energy markets to enhance profits and decried a lack of national leadership for a plan to free the country from dependence on foreign oil.
"I want to go after the oil companies and the oil speculators and the manipulators of the money, because they're the ones who I think are really behind this," Clinton told an audience in Elmira Heights on Thursday. "You have a hurricane, and all of a sudden you see prices going up like that. That has . . . everything to do with people trying to make money off the backs of this tragedy."
"You just cannot convince me that they are not manipulating this market," she told another audience near Newark, N.Y.
"I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in our entire economy that they're being watched," she said in explaining her call for an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission. "I think human nature left to itself is going to push the limit as far as possible, and that's what you need a government regulatory system for: to keep an eye on people to make the rules of the game fair, to make a level playing field and not give anybody some kind of undue advantage."
"I am tired of being at the mercy of people in the Middle East and elsewhere, and I'm tired frankly of being at the mercy of these large oil companies," Clinton said.
Hitlery was convinced there was a vast, right-wing conspiracy making false accusations against her husband, too, if I recall.
So, how's that VRWC workin' for ya, Blondie?
You just cannot convince me that they are not manipulating this market," she told another audience near Newark, N.Y. ""
This statement from a woman who lived with the greatest manipulator of all time.
Where is the "profit" she made off her "cattle futures investments"??????? How about Whitewatergate profits?????
What a total hypocrite she is. Someone please fumigate everywhere she has been.
"I think human nature left to itself is going to push the limit as far as possible,""
I think this statement describes her more than anything else.
Does she plan on divorcing Bill and marrying Hugo Chavez????
So it's true! When the Socialist Hilary Clinton said "We will take things away from you on behalf of the common good" she really meant it!
Being one of those speculative people who use their money to make more, I intent to do what I can to see she never gets elected to any thing again.
An Old Man
""I am tired of being at the mercy of people in the Middle East and elsewhere, and I'm tired frankly of being at the mercy of these large oil companies," Clinton said.""
MSM Question of the day. So, Senator Clinton, you are in favor of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and using the oil profits to support drilling ANWR?
/crickets
What was it she said?
"and the manipulators of the money"?
Do I dare to go there? Do I dare to ask what she just confessed with her own mouth in the context of what we already know about her?
She has a point. Yet, the root cause of this is the government and the answer she proposes is ... well... more government.
This woman does not want to be president. She want to be the Grand Commissar.
President Clinton will decree the end of OilCo profits and will spend many billions in government efforts towards "alternative fuels" which will effectively abort progress towards actually viable alternatives while driving the US oil companies offshore and driving up the price of fuel by multiples. She will blame the resulting economic collapse on the Republican waste and Bush's refusal to decree that all gas autos must be replaced by electric cars in 2 years.There will be a "National Emergency" and controls on everything, especially a limitation on mobility. People will have to get government permission to go further than 10 miles from their homes in order to save fuel.
I,I,I, me, me, me. She sounds like a megalomaniac. "I will end the war", "I will take those profits" .
She will take things away for you for your own good. And she will hgave the Patriot Act to do it with.
If you are not convinced by now that Hillary and her HINO are the greatest threat to America, our way of life, and the Free World, WAKE UP!!!
She has the makings of a true dictator...all she needs is the power.
"I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in our entire economy that they're being watched," she said...
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You mean someone is actually keeping an eye on all of those politicians like Hitlery?
Thanks for posting the transcript, BTW. (Dial-up here.)
nutmeg, Have you seen this???!!!
kcvl has posted the remarks at #27, so you don't have to go to the video clip.