Clinton stuck to her pragmatic progressive approach, but she did try to strike a more aspirational tone that could match Sanders’ idealistic call for a political revolution. “I do not expect from someone running for the Democratic nomination to succeed President Obama”, she said at the debate on Thursday.
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Here are five takeaways from the debate.
Obama, in addition to his other roles and duties, also serves as the head of the Democratic Party.
More than one-fourth of the state’s population is black, making it a more diverse state than either Iowa or New Hampshire. And despite taking in heaps of money in campaign donations from both the insurance and pharmecutical industries, she added “I took on the drug companies and I took on the insurance companies to try to get us universal health care coverage”. “A person with integrity and authenticity would run as what they are”, Reed said of Sanders, who served as an independent in Congress for more than two decades. “The truth is that sentencing for blacks is higher than for whites”.
“Do senators have the right to disagree with the president?”
“Let’s not insult the intelligence of the American people”, said Sanders.
The history lesson was an appropriate #ThrowbackThursday reference for a debate featuring the 74-year-old Sanders and 69-year-old Clinton.
Sanders has called for the creation of universal Medicare and has offered government-paid public college tuition. “I would hope that we could all agree that we are sick and exhausted of seeing videos on television of unarmed people, often African Americans, shot by police officers”.
I don’t think Sanders heard Woodruff’s question the way she meant it-as a contrast with Obama. It was the first time I had ever seen Sanders rattled.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Madam Secretary, that is a low blow.
Meanwhile, two Republican candidates made a decision to call it off this week. “My point was that when I was doing the work of civil rights, led the Voter Education Project and organized voter registration in the South in the 1970s, I did cross paths with Hillary and Bill Clinton in the field”. “So when somebody like Donald Trump and others stirs up the demagoguery against American Muslims, that hurts us at home”.
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That’s an example of the way Sanders’s laudable self-confidence, and his passionate belief in big, systemic change, is causing problems for his candidacy when it comes to the issue of Obama. “And Hillary is the very person who should know about infrastructure, because that’s how she lost to Obama in 2008 in the first place”. People aren’t dumb. Why in God’s name does Wall Street make huge campaign contributions? One of them being that if you don’t have some agreement within the system from states and from families and from students, it’s hard to get to where we need to go. In 1973, he received the Nobel Peace Prize, but Sanders was critical of Kissinger for “destabilizing the political situation in Southeast Asian countries and paving the way for the Khmer Rouge’s mass killing of three million people in Cambodia”, according to CBS News. “I don’t know what economists Secretary Clinton is talking to”, he said, defending the $500 tax for $5,000 savings equation. “I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger”, Sanders said. Mrs Clinton pointed to Mr Sanders’ record and his minimal expertise in foreign policy. Sanders told her, “Well, it ain’t Henry Kissinger”.
