Clinton goes after Sanders on taxes, health care

Hillary Clinton entered the second debate of the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with far less to prove than she had in the first, and, in the end, she probably achieved far less as well. Clinton, who had plenty of stories of her work with activists, chose to go with biography.

“I come from the ’60s, a long time ago”, she told moderator John Dickerson. A spokesman for Sen.

O’Malley also won cheers from the crowd for his reference to “that immigrant-bashing carnival-barker Donald Trump”, a reference to the candidate leading most polls among Republican candidates for president.

“Debate recap”, tweeted Rubio spokesman Alex Conant. “Everybody knows that”, Sanders said.

The missteps are emblematic of a concern that has dogged Clinton’s candidacy.

“The revolution never came”, she said, in a knock on his call for a “political revolution”.

The three Democrats vying to be the next commander in chief delivered tough talk Saturday night on how to deal with the Islamic State group, but held back on plans that would put significant numbers of US troops in harm’s way. Of course, as with many issues associated with Clinton, there’s not enough data to either confirm or deny Clinton’s experience with a Marine recruiter. They agreed that President Obama had been right to offer a path to citizenship for young people brought to the US illegally while still minor children. Almost 7 million fewer people tuned into the broadcast compared with the October debate on CNN.

“I thought that moment, frankly, was pretty shameful”. “I don’t want us to be painting with too broad a brush”. We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. Where were we attacked? Where were we attacked? I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton’s successor as NY senator, to provide 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. “Does that fly?” former Obama adviser David Axelrod asked on Twitter. That rationale drew a decidedly mixed response from the audience in the hall and on social media, with many questioning whether it fully explained the generous contributions she still receives from the financial industry more than a dozen years later. She doesn’t need to invoke 9/11 to make her point there. “And it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”.

“Well, I’m sorry that whoever tweeted that had that impression because I worked closely with New Yorkers after 9/11 for my entire first term to rebuild”, Clinton said.

Saturday’s gaffes were reminiscent of one from January 2013, when Clinton first testified before Congress on the 2011 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, and Sen. Clinton alluded to her 11 hours of testimony before a House investigative panel last month as an indication to the contrary. You might not agree with everything Bernie says, but you know he’s at least honest and not beholden to special interests.

Now, Republicans believe they have a new round of ammunition.

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, ripped Clinton, saying she had reached a “new low”.

But rival Martin O’Malley disagreed and said the U.S. had to “stand up to evil” and lead from the front.

A self-described Democratic Socialist, Sanders also contrasted his reliance on small donors with the Clinton campaign’s donations from the wealthy of Wall Street: “Maybe they’re stupid about what they’re going to get [in return], but I don’t think so”. Ten syllables. Say it with me: “‘Radical Islamic terrorism'”. “I saw it as an explanation for why she received money from them”.

Clinton defended her comments later in the debate after a viewer on Twitter criticized the answer. “I think what they are really going to care about is that she’s focused on raising incomes for the middle class” and other pocketbook issues.

After the debate, the Sanders team appeared to make a conscious decision to lay off Clinton on the 9/11 remark.

Saturday night, Clinton faced criticism of her national security record, when Sanders traced the current instability in the Middle East to the U.S. Senate’s vote – including Clinton’s – to authorize military action in Iraq in 2002.

Like Cornel West states, Bernie’s strength is his “integrity and moral consistently”.