Hillary Clinton accuses GOP presidential candidates of talking in ‘coded
Most mentions of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on the app were neutral. But the GOP will host a debate here in SC in the Upstate on February 13th, days after New Hampshire and a week before the First in the South Republican Primary. That is one of the greatest accomplishments of president Obama.
“I’m going to have the very best advisers that I can possibly have”, she said.
Hours before the Democrat debate in Charleston Sunday night (another weekend debate that nobody watched, by the way), Bernie Sanders released his final solution for fixing the problems ObamaCare wrought: Instituting a single-payer health care system by giving “Medicare for all”.
The debate was held across the street from the Charleston church where a white gunman killed nine black worshippers in June, and Clinton made reference to the incident while accusing Sanders of being weak on gun control. “…We can’t start over again, and plunge our nation into a divisive, contentious debate”.
Clinton raced out of the gate touting her vast experience as former secretary of state, senator and point-woman for her husband Bill Clinton’s efforts to reform health care, saying Americans need a president who can do “all aspects of the job” and signaling that her rivals were not up to the task.
As for the existing law, he said, “We’re not going to tear up the Affordable Care Act – I helped write it”. He answered by saying that the question annoyed him, saying he could not take a walk down the street without being told how he has to attack Hillary Clinton.
Sanders’ call for normalization goes beyond President Barack Obama’s stated agenda, which is to neutralize Iran’s nuclear threat while continuing to confront its disruptions in the region through separate sanctions and diplomatic pressure.
Sanders said that he backed President Obama in winning passage of the Obamacare program of subsidized private insurance coverage sold on state and government operated exchanges, but that “right now we have to deal with the problem that 29 million Americans still have no health care”. In contrast, Secretary Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tended to share the same ideas regarding immigration and economic issues, including minimum wage. Sanders proposes dramatic solutions that will only be possible when power is wrested from “big money” interests that refuse to do “what the American people want them to”. For Clinton, embracing Obama is one way for her to try and drive a wedge between Sanders and Democratic voters.
NBC said that in addition to its TV audience, another 1.3 million streamed the debate online and more than 500,000 watched a rerun of the debate at 11 p.m. Sunday on MSNBC.
This was a battle of the two sides of the Democratic Party, Sanders, the Progressive more liberal member of the party.
The rhetoric was a notable shift from several months ago, when Clinton frequently stressed that she was not running for Obama’s third term.
At the same time, the strategy is potentially risky; should Clinton win the nomination, Republicans are eager to use her ties with Obama administration against her in a general election.
Mr. Sanders responded: “Nobody is tearing this up”.
Bernie Sanders was on the offensive, buoyed by his recent gains in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire.