Democratic non-debate Friday: Clinton, Sanders, O’Malley in televised forum

“The right wing in this country is in a war against women”, Sanders said Saturday at Winthrop University, just hours after the MSNBC nationally televised forum where he, Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley were in the national spotlight.

“I do think a number of states, predominantly but not exclusively in the South, have moved much too quickly to try people for capital offenses that carry the death penalty”, Clinton said.

But Clinton also made clear she would be ready to use the military, which a significant majority of Americans support in Syria.

“I have many disagreements with Hillary Clinton, and one of them is that I don’t think it is good enough to just talk the talk on campaign finance reform, you’ve got to walk the walk”, Sanders said. “However”, Clinton continued, “I will not- I think it’s irresponsible-to rule out force”.

But it didn’t go to plan. “If I had to present myself against him, I gain?”

Kimmel also asked her about Jeb Bush’s flailing campaign, and Clinton took the high road. Which is a nice way of saying that Hillary Clinton is bought and paid for without actually saying it.

Now Sanders is trying to correct that record.

Clinton, who was last to speak Friday night, won a few applause from the South Carolina crowd with her rebuttal. In December 2007, as the financial crisis hit, Clinton visited the NASDAQ stock exchange and “basically said, ‘You guys have got to stop it, ‘ ” she said.

“There is a counterrevolution going on” to roll back gender equality, he said, pointing to history and the role women have played in social movements. “So I said no to the Keystone on day one”. “Let the investigation proceed unimpeded”. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. There is an investigation. And, in a way, he’s right.

Clinton announced her opposition to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in September. That should tell us something about her.

Sanders, for his part, emphasized that his campaign is funded primarily by small donations from individuals and that, unlike Clinton, he has no super PAC working on his behalf. If he chooses to focus on the issues, he will remain what he is today: a favorite of a certain brand of liberal.

At the same time, Clinton made a pitch for keeping a big tent.

The only path for Sanders or anyone else is to put Clinton’s reputation and image on the ballot. And they used the bathroom issue. “I would not have run if I believed that establishment politics and establishment economics can solve the very serious problems that we face”.

Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton were jockeying on Saturday for the support of key South Carolina Democratic groups that anchored President Barack Obama’s twice-victorious coalition. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, called for an end to “our disastrous trade policies” and offshoring of profits, and spoke of the need to persuade companies to invest and create jobs domestically.