“All three Democratic candidates have strong records”, he said.
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In response, Clinton laughed and widened her eyes. Still he felt like the warm up act before the main show, with his campaign remaining in serious trouble. As she filed her official candidacy in the state’s storied primary, Clinton reminisced about the previous three times she’d been present for that ritual: twice in the 1990s when her husband, former President Bill Clinton, ran for election and re-election, and once for her own first presidential run, in 2007. “I don’t want to get rid of it, I want to supplement it”, he said about the agency.
“Now, I have many disagreements with Hillary Clinton”. “I know that doesn’t sound good”, he added. “You’ve got to walk the walk”, he said. Then she laid off over 40,000 people. They know Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are on the other team; what they don’t know is why the GOP team is better or more noble, or what exactly binds it together.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at the VFW Post Tuesday in Derry, N.H.
Clinton said, “As we work to improve the VA, I will fight as long and hard as it takes to prevent Republicans from privatizing it as part of a misguided, ideological crusade”.
Clinton said Monday at a Windham, New Hampshire, town hall she doesn’t support a Medicare-for-all system. “I am not running for my husband’s third term and I am not running for Barack Obama’s third term, but I am a proud Democrat and I am going to build on the progress we have made together”.
At the Bridge Cafe in Manchester, Clinton was asked if her reaction was appropriate.
Clinton’s answer – crammed with qualifiers – suggested an extreme ambivalence in her position.
Clinton also pointed to the recent Russian plane crash, saying if an affiliate of the Islamic State group “put a bomb on that charter plane, that raises the stakes not just for the United States but for others”.
Clinton supporters at the event were more focused on her plan for Veterans which calls for a “new culture of accountability”. Both Sanders and O’Malley have recently disagreed with Clinton on deploying troops to Syria.
The incident may be contrasted with a similar one in September, when Clinton said she was “appalled” that Donald Trump did not condemn an anti-Muslim questioner.
“If this happened with a conservative candidate the liberal media would be all over and asking to apologize and all the rest of it”, she said.
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Update: Saturday Night Live’s take on the Democratic Forum can be seen here.
