Clinton urges war on Islamic State, not Muslims
Former President Bill Clinton, who was in Des Moines for the debate and accompanied his wife to the barbecue, called the charge that Clinton is too cozy with Wall Street is “a stretch”.
The second democratic debate, airing on CBS news on November 14, pivoted to terrorism and battling ISIS.
Showing his first signs of political life of this campaign, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley distanced himself from Mrs. Clinton, saying “This actually is America’s fight”.
“The attacks in Paris, as I said last night at the debate, are a sobering reminder of the challenges and threats that we face”, Clinton said. “(But) It can not exclusively be America’s fight”.
Hillary Clinton, who proclaimed support for medical marijuana without backing full legalization, won traditional polls following the debate and seems to have strengthened her position in national polls.
Meanwhile, on Saturday night’s debate stage, Sanders was aware he was scoring points and followed up Clinton’s defense of her Wall Street donors by saying, “Who are we kidding?” Where Clinton was weakest was on Wall Street. He addressed the Paris terrorist attack but quickly moved on to talking about Wall Street and income inequality. She cited President Barack Obama’s recent remarks about containing the Islamic State militants and said it “cannot be contained, it must be defeated”.
But O’Malley said advocating for border walls is an “old way” of thinking about immigration.
The Democratic candidates will square off next in Manchester, N.H., December 19.
Clinton made the statement after moderator John Dickerson, referencing the Friday terrorist attacks in Paris, asked her if the Obama administration-in which she served-underestimated the threat from ISIS. And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you’re going to see countries all over the world – this is what the Central Intelligence Agency says – they’re going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, used the comment about “responsibility” to say Clinton does share responsibility as she voted to authorize the war in Iraq, which Sanders said led to the growth of ISIS.
The Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) campaign, meanwhile, is letting Clinton take the blows without attacking her directly for it.
While Clinton has a majority of support from many superdelegates, a few are still undecided and have questions about her trustworthiness. One issue on which he did not go after her, though: her private emails as secretary of State.
“And then”, she said, “with the revolution against Assad: and I did early on say we needed to try to find a way to train and equip moderates very early so that we would have a better idea of how to deal with Assad because I thought there would be extremist groups filling the vacuum”. It was clear during the debate that Sanders is having a major impact on the Democratic agenda.
“I coughed to death”, hes said.
“I don’t think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the level of instability that we have now”, he said.
The conversation revealed how Mr Sanders’ message has helped shift the party to the left on a few economic issues. That’s not really a criticism of Sanders – he’s a one-issue candidate, and one-issue candidates like to talk about the one issue that most animates them.