Hillary Clinton’s well-documented ride on the New York City subway got off to a hard start on Thursday, and one former presidential candidate is poking fun at the Democratic front-runner.
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“But maybe Secretary Clinton might want to apologize to the families who lost their loved ones in Iraq or Secretary Clinton might want to apologize to the millions of workers in this country who lost their jobs because of the disastrous trade agreements that she supported”.
“I think to say that Hillary Clinton is unqualified to be president is plainly and blatantly wrong and incorrect”, Connecticut Sen.
The Clinton and Sanders campaigns are harming themselves and each of their chances of defeating the Republican nominee by descending into the gutter of charges over whether or not the other is qualified to be President.
The New York primary on April 19 is setting up as a firewall for Clinton’s bid for the Democratic nomination after Sanders scored six victories in caucuses and primaries since the middle of March, including a 13-point win in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
“This is a new low”, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said on Twitter.
With those words, the Democratic front-runner summed up why she’s such a firm favorite for the primary and her belief that the state she and her husband Bill Clinton have called home since they left the White House can help pave her way back there.
“What we are talking about is breaking up the big banks so that there are in fact more banks, not fewer banks, so those jobs will all still be in NY, but it’s a question of breaking up the economic and political power of these giant mega Wall Street firms”, he said.
As soon as Bachmann is done speaking, she swipes her metro card once and walks through the turnstile, adding mockingly, “just that easy, just that quick”.
That headline comes from a story based on an April 6 interview with Clinton on the MSNBC show Morning Joe, in which host Joe Scarborough repeatedly tried to get Clinton to say whether she believed Sanders is “qualified and ready” to be president. Essentially, his track record on national gun control policy is less than ideal because he was representing the wants and needs of those who sent him to Washington. The photo op was aimed at Sanders, who told the New York Daily News in an interview this week that New Yorkers still used tokens to pay for the train.
The Sanders campaign, however, appears to be doubling down on his remarks.
During their interview Thursday, Meyers asked Sanders if he “regrets” making those comments. We have Republicans whose values are so antithetical to what’s right for NY or right for America.
But Clinton saying that Sanders’ answers raise questions about his qualifications is very different from saying he’s “not qualified”.
In this one speech, Sanders forfeited the supposed high road and went on the kind of full-frontal negative attack he has long claimed he was above.
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Even before the current dust-up, there were signs of growing tension between Clinton and Sanders supporters. I’m not going to get lied about. “Raising questions” is a classic move that allows politicians to bring up an issue while maintaining deniability about their stance on it. Compare Clinton’s “questions” to what Donald Trump said in 2012 regarding Barack Obama’s birth certificate: “I don’t consider myself birther or not birther, but there are some major questions here”.
