Bill Clinton weighs in on Wall Street criticism

“I would argue that the disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, unraveled the region immensely, and led to the rise of Al Qaeda and to ISIS”, said Sanders, a USA senator from Vermont.

Sec. Clinton had an obvious advantage during the beginning of the evening when the discussion centered on terrorism and foreign affairs, but all three candidates disavowed the Republican assertion that America is at war with “radical Islam”.

“It’s truly stupid, because if you look at the way things have worked, if you look at what Obama got in 2008 and what we then did, if you look at those of us who pushed through a bill over the greater objection of the financial industry, there’s no argument there”, said Frank, who was joined on a conference call set up by the Clinton campaign by Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and now a Clinton campaign adviser. It’s become more complicated. “And numerous fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in”, she said. The base indecency of using 9/11, the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans, to justify your greedy money grab can not and will not stand.

Sixty-seven percent of of the 510 voters surveyed said that Clinton won the debate, according to Public Policy Polling.

“This will help the anti- immigration cause and hurt efforts to bring in Syrian refugees”, predicted Vin Weber, a leading Republican strategist.

“It’s an intersection between stupid and offensive, and I think that’s going to be a big problem as the campaign heads into the general election”, said Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee’s chief strategist.

Fleming said it is no surprise that both Sen.

Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, may have been largely overshadowed by the previous night’s deadly Paris terrorist attacks, but nevertheless it marked a shift to a more contentious phase of the nomination race.

The debate opened on a sombre note, with the candidates bowing their heads in a moment of silence for the Paris victims.

Clinton has always been from the more hawkish wing of the Democratic Party.

The Democratic contenders also debated economic issues. Sanders criticized Clinton for takingWall Street donations and noted her opposition to reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, the 1933 law that established a firewall between investment and commercial banking. A few financial watchdog groups have said the repeal was part of the financial deregulations that worsened the 2008 financial crisis.

In the 24 hours since the Democratic presidential debate in Iowa, Hillary Clinton has faced a wave of criticism for saying the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, somehow justified her huge haul of Wall Street campaign cash.

“She doesn’t have to mask it. It is what it is”, O’Malley said.