He memorably defended Clinton over criticism she had received about her private email server while at the state department – declaring “enough with the damn emails”.
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Friday night Rachel Maddow asked Hillary Clinton to weigh in on Houston’s just-defeated HERO equal rights ordinance, and to explain comments she had made two weeks ago in a previous interview with the MSNBC anchor about DOMA. “If the Supreme Court said, ‘No, it violates the 8th Amendment, it’s cruel and unusual punishment, ‘ I would breathe a sigh of relief about that”.
Sanders: When we started this campaign we were 3 percent in the polls, 4 percent in the polls and I think nobody thought we were capable of mounting a serious campaign. But I also want to make sure you got a second chance and it shouldn’t be that you are denied a job that has nothing to do with, as I understand working for the Birmingham newspaper would have, with your credit score or your credit situation.
“What we haven’t yet done is to deal with the discrimination that still exists”, she said, adding that gays can “get married on Saturday and get fired on Monday”.
Sanders was speaking the truth.
Clinton vowed at a town hall in heavily African-American Orangeburg to tackle problems important to black voters, from improving historically black colleges and universities to curing sickle cell anemia, an inherited blood disease that disproportionately affects African-Americans.
“I’m just not well known in the African-American community”, he said in an interview with NPR this week. “And people who think they should have a missile launcher in their backyard as a constitutional right may not have that”. “I am a Democrat”.
“I’m a Democrat. I’m not a former independent, I’m not a former Republican”, he said, knocking Vermont Sen.
The former Secretary of State “has credentials above and beyond anything on the Republican side”, he said. And I’ve never once rejected the nomination of the Democratic Party.
“I want us to use diplomacy which is why I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table”, Clinton told Maddow. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was called the country’s first black president during his time in the White House.
Maddow cited financial support she’s gotten from Wall Street executives, including paid speeches for Goldman Sachs totaling more than $600,000 after she left the Senate.
I think if you look at my history and what I am saying in this campaign, we need a political revolution. “They are impatient and they deserve to be impatient”, Clinton said of the protesters.
Clinton also sounded a much softer tone on the death penalty than a few of her rivals.
“People rightly believe the corporations and the powerful have stacked the deck”, she said, also citing her support for ending tax preferences for hedge fund managers. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, right, after a democratic presidential candidate forum at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., Friday, November 6, 2015.
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Clinton is trying to tie herself to Obama in this state – where the president remains extremely popular – but, as she regularly says, is noting that she will not be his third term.
