Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee take the stage before the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, October 13, 2015, in Las Vegas.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic candidate challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, effectively stole a question from the former Secretary of State about whether she’d been politically targeted for her private email server by voicing a well-received opinion: “Enough with the damn e-mails!” The showdown will give Sanders his first broad national exposure and offer Clinton a chance to ease the concerns of a few Democrats about her. After two raucous Republican debates that drew big television audiences attracted by the fireworks generated by front-runner Donald Trump, the Democratic encounter, hosted by CNN and to be held in Las Vegas, is likely to be a tamer affair.
On November 15, 2012, in Adelaide, Australia: “This TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) sets the gold standard in trade agreements, to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field”.
For example, the USA had pushed for 12 years of legal protection from generic drugs for advanced pharmaceuticals, but the final agreement provides only up to eight years. “Me too”, she replied.
Hillary Clinton was head and shoulders above the rest in her command of policy, her foreign policy chops, for example. standing out against opponents, who could not match them. And that they would depict her as a Washington insider, as a political ally of the fat cats on Wall Street, as a member of the wealthiest “1 percent” of Americans, and as political opportunist.
“Like most human beings, I do absorb new information, I do look at what’s happening in the world”, Clinton said. Both Sanders and Webb are afflicted with severe cases of Senatoritis, talking about congressional procedure and co-sponsors instead of policies that sound good to voters. The former secretary of state reiterated her call for more robust US action to stop the Syrian civil war and defended her judgment on worldwide issues, despite having voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. “I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone”, Clinton said. Her only response was the only word a politician enmeshed in scandal needs to know: “No”. O’Malley has the governor version of it.
Chafee had perhaps the most cringe-worthy moment of the night. That didn’t fly, and challenged twice to justify his vote, he finally cracked.
“O’Malley, as former Mayor of Baltimore, has very little chance”. “I’d just arrived at the United States Senate”. My dad had died.
Webb used his limited time to complain that he didn’t have enough time – four times he complained to moderator Anderson Cooper that he had waited 10 minutes to speak, rather than going on the offense or lay out his own vision.
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The candidates were behind five debate podiums – but there could have been six.
