As Sanders points out, “Judgment matters as well”. And he made it clear he’s not a fan of Henry Kissinger.
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CLINTON: “He wrote a foreword for a book that basically argued voters should have buyer’s remorse when it comes to President Obama’s leadership and legacy”. She tried to show Democratic voters she is a progressive, yet a pragmatist.
The Colorado Democratic party says Hillary Clinton and Sanders will be at its annual dinner on Saturday. Last I heard, a United States senator had the right to disagree with the president, including a president who has done such an extraordinary job.
Sanders also indulged in several asides of a historical nature, tipping his hat to Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and ripping into former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whom Clinton had cited as someone she listened to. “I was not that candidate”. But what about a President Bernie Sanders? And he criticized the Dodd-Frank financial reforms. “The domino theory, you know, if Vietnam goes, China, da, da, da, da, da, da, da”, he said.
Clinton said that under Obama there had been a “lot of advances” that had helped African-Americans but warned that thanks to social media “we are seeing the dark side of the remaining systemic racism that we have to root out in our society”.
Bernie Sanders made two unequivocal statements on race tonight. His campaign says that people making less than $16,000 a year would end up receiving $1,300 more a year. They loved Clinton’s two potshots at the state’s Republican governor, Scott Walker. She needs African-American voters to get behind her now. The first type is better at the micro-debate. Clinton said she did so because she wanted to “send a message to families and communities” not to send their children on unsafe journeys to America.
She challenged Sanders specifically on his implication that Clinton is part of a political establishment corrupted by campaign contributions, noting that Obama “was the recipient of the largest number of Wall Street donations” in history. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seemed to slip up on their foreign policy.
As the race expands to new states, including upcoming clashes in Nevada and South Carolina, Clinton said it was time “both of us are held to account for explaining what we are proposing because, especially with health care, this is not about math; this is about people’s lives”.
Questioned about accepting campaign contributions from Wall Street, she noted that Obama had done the same in 2008 and yet still enacted laws Wall Street opposed.
What Clinton and Sanders agree on wholeheartedly is that they want, at the very least, to protect the program that exists now from any effort to privatize the fund, reduce benefits, or raise the age at which Americans receive the entitlement. Jeb Bush, in an email interview with Bloomberg BNA in July, wrote that “the climate is changing”, adding, “I don’t think anybody can argue it’s not”. On Thursday night, so did Clinton.
Clinton responded with one of her most cutting lines of the night, playing on a complaint among her supporters that he is weak on foreign policy and is unwilling to disclose who is advising him on national security.
Getting testy at one point, Sanders shot back, “Secretary Clinton, you’re not in the White House yet”, after Clinton talked about how she could get things done once in office. Clinton was happy to brag about her support of both Planned Parenthood and NARAL at Thursday’s CNN/PBS debate, yet neither Gwen Ifill nor Judy Woodruff followed up on her comments. But both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen.
Much of the debate lacked the bitterness of earlier forums as Clinton and Sanders laid out differences on policy questions.
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Kissinger, now 92, served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
