“This was a middle-of-the-road approach, even though I’m a strong Bernie (Sanders) supporter”, she said. On terrorism, she tried to hone an edge from her experience as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, knowing her rivals Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley would fault her for USA foreign policy failures.
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The official said Clinton dedicated herself to rebuilding Wall Street after the terrorist attacks, but clarified the allegiance has no bearing on whether the presidential candidate would crack down on financial institutions if elected president. “You know, maybe they’re dumb and they don’t know what they’re going to get, but I don’t think so”, the senator continued.
Clinton ultimately used a few form of the word terrorist, jihadist, or extremist 15 times, compared to three times for Sanders, who spent much of his opening statement railing against the “rigged economy”, and once for O’Malley. “We were attacked in downtown Manhattan, where Wall Street is”, she said.
The former president did not respond to questions about Hillary Clinton’s assertion that one of the reasons she has received millions of dollars in donations from Wall Street is because she “represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”.
“Bringing people into this country from that area of the world, I think is a huge mistake, because why wouldn’t they infiltrate them?”
During the debate, Ms. Clinton highlighted that she received many contributions from women, and that her Wall Street connections sent a message to al Qaeda.
The Democratic machine may have enough clout to drag her to the nomination, unless Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire bail them out by rejecting Clinton again.
The rally – which drew 1,500 attendees, according to the Clinton campaign – marked Clinton’s second campaign event in Texas since she launched her second presidential bid. She says no venue has been picked out just yet.
We can see that in the people who run presidential campaigns and then wind up working for the White House, if their candidate wins. Where were we attacked?
Clinton’s ties to Wall Street have come under scrutiny in the past months and both her challengers, O’Malley and Sanders, have sought to distinguish themselves from the former Secretary of State on this issue. We are at war with violent extremism.
Clinton noted that she introduced legislation to reign in compensation and looked at ways that the shareholders would have more control over what was going on in that arena.
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“I thought last night was a pretty disgraceful moment, when she tried to put out a smoke screen, invoking 9/11 to hide the fact that she’s taken millions in contributions from the big banks on Wall Street, not to mention all the hundreds of thousands in speaking fees”, O’Malley told Bloomberg at the barbecue.
