In December 2007, as the financial crisis hit, Clinton visited the NASDAQ stock exchange and “basically said, ‘You guys have got to stop it, ‘ ” she said.
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In individual interviews with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, both Sen.
In her comments on DOMA, Clinton was trying to clear up a controversy that began last month, when the former first lady told Maddow in an interview that she and her husband had backed DOMA because they believed that it would be a way to prevent congressional Republicans from pushing for a change to the Constitution.
“No, here’s why”, Clinton said.
Sanders took the same shot. All three candidates oppose it but Sanders and O’Malley focused on Clinton’s timing. “It never made sense to me from day one”.
One answer Clinton gave that might make LGBT activists less happy was her defense of President Bill Clinton’s support of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1993.
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 blacks.
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton would run for the White House again if he could, his wife and current presidential nomination contender Hillary Clinton said on a late-night talk show, predicting that in a head-to-head election she would best him. “And what is motivating the kind of violence we’re seeing?”
Clinton also sounded a much softer tone on the death penalty than a few of her rivals.
“The people want to know why the middle class of this country is disappearing”, Sanders said. “I’ll certainly consider people who have the energy and the intellect and the experience to be on the Supreme Court, and probably on the younger side, because I want them to be there a long time”.
Sanders was asked what his dream job would be if he weren’t a politician, he said he would be president of CNN because the way the media talks about politics would immediately change. “But it should always be the last resort, not the first choice”. Fifteen percent chose Sanders while 2 percent chose O’Malley.
Asked about Clinton, Paul said: “I see her as a neoconservative”. Whether or not she will go on to implement the panel’s ideas into her campaign approach remains to be seen, but it’s easy to imagine a savvy Republican having something to say about Clinton enthusiastically writing down “free stuff” in her notebook.
But speaking to reporters after the 90-minute event, which ended with the candidates on stage together, O’Malley was optimistic about his prospects.
“We are at a point in history right now where both our democracy and our economy are not working for the majority, they are working for a select minority very, very well”, Clinton said.
Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, was bullish, too.
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“We’ve only recently set up full shop here in South Carolina, but we are here, and we’re committed to this state”, he said. Sanders and O’Malley used the night to try and cut into an African-American electorate strongly in favor of Clinton.
