Debate Strategies for Democrats

Listed here are the top eight belongings you’d by no means hear come out of a republican candidate’s mouth throughout a debate: 1.

But, with the Islamic State showing itself a far great threat than the Obama administration – of which she was an integral part – anticipated, Clinton found herself having to explain just how complicated the world is, without getting very specific about what she would do.

“I agree completely”, Clinton says in response.

John Dickerson, usual host of “Face the Nation”, moderated the debate from behind a small curved desk, standing for the two hour event. Trying to blame Obama for ISIS would be like blaming FDR for the Great Depression. She emphatically said ISIS must be destroyed, not contained. Clinton agreed with Sanders that numerous countries have to make up their minds on their role in the fight against ISIS.

Almost 30 minutes of the debate was dedicated to a discussion of ISIS and radical Islam.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that it must be defeated not contained. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) only lingered on the attacks for a brief moment. While Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley dedicated their opening statements to addressing the situation in Paris, Sen.

In the aftermath of Friday’s attacks in Paris, the debate will focus in part on foreign policy differences among the candidates and strategies to fight extremist groups overseas. He produced the revealing response that Clinton is unwilling to name “radical Islam” as the enemy.

“Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism”, he said. O’Malley woke up the crowd when he called Donald Trump an “immigrant bashing carnival huckster”. Hillary Clinton backed him up and said that it is a fact.

Sanders said his disagreement with Clinton runs deeper than just the Iraq War vote, and pointed to a long US history of pushing for regime change in countries like el Salvador and Guatemala. Net immigration from Mexico previous year was zero, he said. “It also give her a way of contrasting herself with her Democratic opponents who have not had the kind of experience that lends to foreign policy credibility”, Goldford said. She replied that most of her Wall Street donors were women and then she bizarrely invoked 9/11. He said that Democrats must lead by example.

Sanders accused Clinton of being too close to Wall Street as he promised to break up the country’s largest banks.

The Democratic candidates finally disagreed on something.

Clinton points to her role in advising President Obama to initiate the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Martin O’Malley didn’t have a crisis. The United States was best when it was standing up to evil in the world, he said.

Sanders calls for “major reform in the military making it more cost effective but also focusing on the real crisis that faces us”.

Sanders challenged Clinton’s argument that the “bulk of responsibility” for the destabilization of the Middle East belonged to regional governments.

Here are the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Democratic debate.