Sanders commented after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at a separate appearance in SC on Saturday, offered her own proposal to loosen restrictions on marijuana. Bernie Sanders in more than just the polls for the 2016 Democratic primary.
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Clinton brought a similar message to the MSNBC’s “First in the South Democratic Candidates Forum” on Friday night. “I’ve supported a lot of Democrats over the years”. Yet, former President George W. Bush “didn’t even have the nerve to ask us to pay for” the Iraq War, he said, citing Republican complaints about the spiraling USA national debt.
In the meeting, she says that her goal for marijuana right now would be to change it from a Schedule I classification (drugs that are considered to have no medical benefit and can not be tested) to Schedule II (drugs like painkillers that are heavily researched for their medicinal properties).
With black voters accounting for more than half of the Democratic primary constituency in the state in 2008, the presidential hopefuls are vying for credibility with those voters on the key issue of criminal justice reform and policing.
“Everybody evolves on issues – nothing wrong with that”, he said.
Yet both of her rivals took the opportunity to say she was late to the party. “It seemed like the other candidates wanted to accomplish something else”.
After seeming to set aside the issue of what he described as her “damn emails” in the first Democratic debate, he appeared to reopen the saga in an interview with The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, saying there are “valid questions” about her correspondence.
Over the weekend, Clinton called for marijuana to be rescheduled as a Schedule II drug, “so researchers can research what’s the best way to use it, dosage, how does it work with other medications”.
But the focus on the Sanders remark, which can easily be taken as harmless or ham-fisted at worst, raises the risk Clinton may come off as thin-skinned or too politically correct. “African Americans constitute one of the most important constituencies for the Democratic Party”.It was the most memorable line of the Democratic presidential debate.
“It’s not about punching up”, campaign manager Jeff Weaver told reporters after the event.
“I do not want to see us getting sucked into a quagmire of which there may be no end”, Sanders said in opposing Obama’s Syria policy.
Clinton later joined with environmentalists in Nashua, where she credited Obama’s decision last week to reject the Keystone XL pipeline and recent decisions to cancel lease sales in the Arctic.
So do I agree with Hillary Clinton on this or that issue?
Last month, Clinton met with Black Lives Matter activists to discuss race and the Black Lives Matter movement. It is an idea that already has bipartisan support in Congress and the endorsement of President Barack Obama.
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden had been at 12 percent in the August poll. Bernie Sanders, has decided not to spend time raising money in Silicon Valley, Politico reports. Im just proud to be a Democrat and Im proud that Ive worked so hard for the Democratic party.Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, filed paperwork in New Hampshire last week declaring that he was a Democrat.
