Bill Clinton weighs in on Wall Street attacks against his wife
Both Sanders and O’Malley knocked Clinton for her vote to authorize the war against Iraq.
Sen. Sanders added in the debate, “I don’t know and with all due respect to the secretary, Wall Street played by the rules?”
The debate’s moderators asked her to respond to one Twitter user who took issue with her comments.
Clinton referenced this 2007 speech before the 2012 campaign as an example of her being tough on Wall Street, but no recording of the speech was available until this weekend when ProPublica posted a full video of the December 7, 2007, speech.
Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri told Yahoo News after the debate that she didn’t think Clinton was getting a lot of criticism for remarks. Therefore, Bernie Sanders walked up a victor, but Clinton is still in “pole position” to be the Democratic nominee.
The issue of Clinton’s ties to Wall Street are getting a fresh look after last weekend’s Democratic presidential debate.
During the debate, Sanders called out Clinton for her relationship with Wall Street bankers in the past, specifically the multiple super PACs she has, according to Mic, which can “take limitless sums of money from corporations”. The Independent senator from Vermont said he thinks such a raise would stimulate the economy, yielding more benefits than potential harm. GOP strategists, and the ads they make, can now accurately say Democrats will not recognize radical Islam, even after the carnage in Paris; will insist that climate change remains the nation’s greatest security threat, even after the carnage in Paris; and remain determined to admit large numbers of Syrian refugees into the United States, even after the carnage in Paris. They expect to get something.
The union is already plotting how it can mobilize to help the Clinton campaign beat Sanders in the Iowa caucus.
It was a part of the Central Iowa Democratic Fall Barbecue Fundraiser.
“I represented NY on 9/11”, she said. Instead of answering a question about what we should do about the Paris attacks, Mr. Sanders abruptly shifted his answer to his standard complaints about millionaires and billionaires. “I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild”. “She was hit today by The NY Times editorial board”, explained Halperin. And it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.
O’Malley said Clinton “sadly invoked 9/11 to try to mask” the influence that Wall Street has had on her. “But she doesn’t have to mask it. It is what it is”, he said.
Democrats regularly challenge Republican economic policies on grounds of fairness but fail to provide an explanation of how to move the economy forward and create prosperity.
Sanders, who met earlier in the day with family caregivers, also called on Clinton to support legislation he’s co-sponsored that would provide three months paid leave if an employee has a child.