Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) on Sunday took issue with Hillary Clinton’s refusal to call the terrorists who attacked Paris representatives of radical Islam.
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Clinton countered, saying her relationship with Wall Street was forged in the wreckage of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“I represented NY and I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”, she said. “We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is”. “At the same time, a lot will go back to when she was Secretary of State and the things she did while the Secretary that helped ISIS develop more in the middle east”. In her defense, it was partly because the questions from CBS moderator John Dickerson didn’t allow for much nuance – including a particularly pointless question about whether she used the expression “radical Islam” to describe jihadist terror.
They gave a few fodder to their Republican critics, who coupled condemnation of the Paris attacks during the day with sharp criticism for Obama and his former secretary of state, Clinton.
“It is a stretch”.
“I would argue that the disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region completely and led to the rise of Al-Qaeda and to ISIS”, Sanders said.
Mr Sanders and Mr O’Malley both said 15 dollars (£9.85) an hour – the rate being pushed by a campaign of fast-food workers and unions. “But Obama and his staff realized that going after Hillary Clinton was the only road they had to the White House”.
“The business model of Wall Street is fraud”, Sanders said. “Our agenda is the most progressive in terms of demanding that Wall Street, large corporations and the wealthy finally start paying their fair share of taxes”, he said.
O’Malley, a former Governor of Maryland and Baltimore Mayor, replied: “This actually is America’s fight”. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was represented by a surrogate, the former Princeton professor Cornel West. “It can not be an American fight”.
Clinton’s response was met with collective shock, as people wondered about the appropriateness of citing the very bad 9/11 attacks to justify being a huge recipient of Wall Street cash. I know that Senator Sanders had a different vote than I did when it came to giving immunity to gun makers and sellers.
The night also included a lighter moment, after Sanders brought up his plan to remove marijuana from the federal government’s list of unsafe drugs, a step that would allow states to legalize marijuana without impediments from Washington.
Just as in the first debate, Clinton showed the depth of her experience in politics over the last 30 years. “When we put money into the hands of working people, they’re going to go out and buy goods, they’re going to go out and buy services, and they’re going to create jobs in doing that… that is the kind of economy I believe, put money in the hands of working people”. “Now maybe they’re dumb, but I don’t think so”, said Sanders, who favors reinstatement of the act. While criticizing Clinton as “the candidate of Wall Street”, O’Malley also hit Sanders for his opposition to certain gun control measures and questioned whether his economic problems are realistic.
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The debate created a challenge for Clinton, magnifying her public split with Obama on his approach to Syria.
