President Clinton said he watched the second Democratic debate from a hotel, as he did with the first one in Las Vegas last month.
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O’Malley, 52, a former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, took issue with Clinton, saying, “This actually is America’s fight”. Sanders said, later calling the business model of Wall Street “fraud”. [Cheers and applause.] So I- I represented NY, and I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked.
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio was quick to pounce on Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for refusing to say that the United States is “at war with radical Islam” following the Paris attacks.
“My guess is she probably regrets it”, O’Malley responded, adding that Clinton’s debate answer was a “very distasteful way trying to pump out a smoke screen for her coziness for the big banks of Wall Street by invoking the tragedy of 9/11 and those attacks especially so fresh after so many were murdered in Paris”. She talked of using airpower, training and equipping forces in the region and pushes our allies – especially Turkey and the Gulf States – to make up their minds about how much they’re going to help in this effort. “It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”.
After his remarks, O’Malley was asked whether Clinton should apologize for her 9/11 comments. Unsurprisingly, she did this at a moment of fresh shock and anger over the latest jihadi attacks on civilians.
“Well, John, look, I think that what happened when we abided by the agreement that George W. Bush made with the Iraqis to leave by 2011 is that an Iraqi army was left that had been trained and that was prepared to defend Iraq”, she said.
Mainstream NY politicians do tend to represent the interests of the financial sector in Washington as reliably as those from Texas boost the oil industry.
Clinton responded, “I agree completely”. I like how you stand up.
Amid the backdrop of global anxiety over Friday’s attacks in Paris, Mrs Clinton found herself fending off questions about not only her foreign policy record but her economic ties.
Clinton also took heat from her debate opponents Sen.
“My son is not a pair of boots on the ground”, Mr. O’Malley said. “Maybe they’re dumb and don’t know what they’re going to get, but I don’t think so”, he said.
With the political clock ticking to the first nominating contest in Iowa on February 1, Clinton has opened a commanding lead over Sanders, her prime challenger, in national and Iowa polls. Bernie Sanders trailed with 20 percent and Martin O’Malley got 7 percent.
Her two rivals were more assertive about USA leadership. A backtrack? Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said the former.
Meanwhile, on Saturday night’s debate stage, Sanders was aware he was scoring points and followed up Clinton’s defense of her Wall Street donors by saying, “Who are we kidding?”
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Sanders, in a brief interview following a town hall meeting at Simpson College in Indianola, said he could pay for his agenda without raising taxes on middle-class families.
