Democratic Presidential Candidates Debated Foreign Policy Following Paris

These concerns were raised by Democratic rival and Bernie Sanders during Saturday night’s debate. Given that his own campaign is funded by small donations from individual supporters, the Vermont senator has been a leading advocate for campaign finance reform. And they signaled that the response would likely find its way into advertising if Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee.

“Attacking Paris, the city of light, reminds us that there is no middle ground in going after these terrorists”, she said. “We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is”, Sec. And it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.

An American politician referencing 9/11 during campaign season is always a red flag, a cheap grab at sympathy by appealing to a shared tragedy. “At worst it was the type of cynical move that Mrs. Clinton would have condemned in Republicans”, the paper wrote.

The statement immediately came off as disingenuous.

Indeed, the GOP was quick to criticize Clinton’s handling of foreign policy during the debate, especially for refusing to characterize the conflict with ISIS as a war with “radical Islam”. Clinton also invoked economist and liberal NY Times columnist Paul Krugman in defending her financial plans and suggested that reinstating the Glass-Steagall financial regulations, a popular progressive position, wouldn’t be as helpful as Sanders or O’Malley suggest.

But Martin O’Malley, who spoke after Clinton at the barbecue, continued to needle her for trying to “mask” her ties to Wall Street with an ill-timed reference to the tragedy on 9/11.

“The point she was making, is that as a senator, she did things for Wall Street, particularly after 9/11, but she also spoke out as a senator and now when she thought they were going too far”, Palmieri told reporters.

As the debate moved into the second hour, shifting to domestic concerns, Clinton found herself under attack from the other two candidates on her purported ties to Wall Street interests. “It’s just an unfair attack”. He added that Clinton’s 9/11 comments were an unplanned reaction to the attacks leveed against her.

Joined by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at a fall barbecue, the front-runner said Sunday that middle-class families “need a raise, not a tax increase” and she was the lone Democrat in the debate to commit to raising wages “and not your taxes”.

“So we pay for this by demanding that the wealthiest people and the largest corporations, who have gotten away with murder for years, start paying their fair share”, said Sanders. “I know how hard this will be but I also know that we must be resolute and use both our strengths and our smarts in combating this unusually effective threat”.