“And we knew there was going to be an extended, as it turned out a 32-minute discussion of [terrorism], which would follow immediately thereafter”.
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Clinton struck a sharp contrast to Obama’s comments in an interview aired on Friday that ISIS had been contained, saying it “cannot be contained, it must be defeated”. But she stood by her opposition to seeking a formal declaration of war against the Islamic State. Sanders failed to deliver in small and large ways at the Democratic presidential debate Saturday that would have either cast positive attention on him or negative attention on her.
As a US senator she voted to authorize the war in Iraq, though she has since called that decision a mistake.
“Let’s not be naive about it. Why over her political career, has Wall Street been a major – the major – campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton?”.
While Clinton has been a polarizing figure nationally over the years, she has so far seen most of the Democratic Party happily coalesce around her ahead of the 2016 elections.
“That was one of the real contributions, despite all the other problems, that George W. Bush made after 9/11”, Clinton said Saturday, “when he basically said after going to a mosque in Washington, we are not at war with Islam or Muslims”.
Mr. Kofinis identified one vulnerability: Mrs. Clinton’s ties to Wall Street, exemplified by an answer to a question about accepting donations from rich bankers that has been widely mocked. But on Saturday they both got a chance they weren’t hoping for.
Later in the debate, when the moderators took questions from Twitter, Clinton was asked to respond to a message that suggested it was inappropriate for her to invoke September 11th in connection with a Wall Street fundraising question.
Many members of the delegation have gone beyond just endorsing her candidacy and have taken to stumping for Clinton in New Hampshire with its first-in-the-nation primary.
On gun control, Sanders received the most criticism from his two rivals for his more conservative position on the matter.
“Well, I’m sorry that whoever Tweeted that had that impression because I worked closely with New Yorkers after 9/11 for my entire first term to rebuild”, she said.
On Sunday, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon elaborated, saying in a statement that her work to help the financial industry rebuild after 9/11 “did not mean she ever hesitated to call out and seek to reform the abuses and excesses that led to the economic crisis”. “That is why we have troops in Iraq that are helping to train and build back up the Iraqi military, why we have special operators in Syria working with the Kurds and Arabs so that we can be supportive”. Marco Rubio of Florida. “But this can not be an American fight, although American leadership is essential”. “And it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was represented by a surrogate, the former Princeton professor Cornel West.
O’Malley delivered several strong one-liners throughout the night, notably when he slammed Republican front-runner Donald Trump as a “carnival barker” for his immigration policies.
But O’Malley also missed a couple of key moments where he could have shined.
His central contention is that it’s time for a new generation of leadership – meaning no more baby boomers like Clinton.
In one of the debate’s most tense exchanges, Sen.
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O’Malley’s response conceded that he is untested – that nothing he’s been through as mayor of Baltimore or governor of Maryland comes close to the crises he would face as President.
