Clinton Double-Speak Explained

The Washington Times has a quote from one of Hillary Clinton's 2013 speeches to a Wall Street audience, perhaps Goldman Sachs, derived from a recently released John Podesta email. You can readily understand why this comment would be well-received by that audience.

If everybody’s watching, you know, all of the backroom discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So you need both a public and a private position. You just have to sort of figure out how to — getting back to that word, ‘balance’ - how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that’s not just a comment about today.

Translation: she tells them one thing, and us another. She cons Bernie Sanders' supporters that she's anti-Wall Street (public position), when she is taking Wall Street money and promising them covert support (private position). Now we know how she thinks of it, as her "public and private positions" between which balance needs to be maintained.

Actual truth has nothing whatsoever to do with it.