Joe Biden for president? Ted Kaufman letter gives further hints at platform

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday she will “not be silenced” about gun violence, renewing her debate-night tangle with rival Bernie Sanders on what could be a bellwether issue for Democratic primary voters.

Sanders said the campaign should focus on issues of more importance to middle-class and poor Americans. Sanders provided the most memorable moment when he urged Clinton’s critics to stop obsessing about her use of private emails while she was America’s top diplomat.

Most of the media will spin the Democratic debate as refreshing and new, but it was stale, old and uninspiring, like the candidates.

“Leading us into Iraq under false pretenses and telling us as people that there were weapons of mass destruction there was one of the worst blunders in American history”, O’Malley said during Tuesday’s Democratic debate, raising his voice.

Mr. Cooper grilled Mrs. Hillary Clinton: “Will you say anything to get elected?”

Given the chance again to address her judgement in the matter, Clinton reiterated (as she’s done many times before) that the information that “nothing I sent or received was marked classified at the time”.

By the far the most experienced debater, Hillary Clinton faced high expectations for the first Democratic debate of the 2016 presidential race.

“I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone”, she said, ignoring the fact she has said she was “inclined to approve” it when she was secretary of state.

So Clinton probably has nothing major to worry about with Sanders’s strong debate showing.

At the same time, she refused to go along with Sanders’ call to break up Wall Street banks, reiterated her support of the Patriot Act, and said she would not hesitate to use military force if necessary, at times obliquely criticizing President Barack Obama’s White House – and by proxy, Biden – for failing to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and for doing too little about the civil war in Syria. Cutter, who worked for President Obama’s re-election, said Biden could now “risk a backlash” from Democrats if he runs.

After months of deliberating on the issue, Biden is expected to announce this month if he will seek the nomination, as he did in 2008 and 1988, and a political action committee has been urging him to do so. She referenced Republicans a dozen times during the two-hour debate, even putting the party alongside the Iranians and National Rifle Association on a list of enemies she was proud to have made. Clinton stayed in Vegas for two events aimed at mobilizing the labor and Latino groups that loom large in the state’s Democratic politics.

“Sorry, there is no STAR on the stage tonight!” he wrote. The Democratic debate had a substantially lower audience, largely because ratings magnet and Republican front-runner Donald Trump didn’t participate, but viewership of the CNN-sponsored encounter was still huge. “I even turned around to Bernie Sanders at one point and said, ‘Bernie!”

WCDP County Chairwoman Dorothy Engelman noted it was important that the candidates discussed the disparity between economic classes but would have liked to have seen more brought up about equal pay for women. Most importantly for Democrats and Clinton, the candidates did a much better job of turning the tables on Republicans when the going got tough. He knows that. Of course a few will say that this is precisely why he will win, and I will disagree.

Clinton’s backers in Las Vegas were elated, suggesting that her performance offered an unspoken rejoinder to those Democrats calling for Biden to make a late entry into the race.