Clinton, who is vying to be the nation’s first female chief executive, will host an afternoon rally in heavily African-American Orangeburg.
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Clinton made the remarks during a Democratic presidential forum when host Rachel Maddow asked the candidate whether she stood by her characterization of DOMA as a “defensive action” that President Bill Clinton signed in 1996 to stave off a USA constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage entirely. When the Clinton-Sanders back-and-forth happened, I wondered aloud (I talk to myself a lot) whether he had been misunderstood, whether accidentally or, more likely, on goal, by Clinton.
“It kind of should be a no-brainer that two people doing the same work should get equal pay”, Sanders told the southeastern regional meeting of the National Federation of Democratic Women, at which activists from a dozen states were represented. This led to a discussion regarding the increasing number of people being denied jobs because of credit reports and whether or not Clinton supports Waters’ legislation, which will fix and wipe out credit scores as a job requirement. On many, many issues.
That’s comparable to the 19-point, 50 percent to 31 percent advantage Mrs. Clinton had over Mr. Sanders in a CNN/ORC poll taken in August.
“You’re in low single digits everywhere, and that’s after months of campaigning”, Maddow said. Bernie Sanders and former Gov. Martin O’Malley cast themselves as the party’s liberal standard-bearers, questioning Clinton’s commitment to the causes Democrats hold dear.
While others were looking for more from information from the Senator about his gun control policies.
“I don’t think it’s good enough just to talk about campaign finance”, he said. “You have to walk the walk”. Sanders noted that he is the only one of the Democratic candidates not being supported by a sanctioned super-PAC. Categorized by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule 1 drug (the highest – no pun intended – categorization for drugs with “with no now accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse”), marijuana is now classified alongside such substances as heroin – something fellow Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has already called out as “absurd”.
Then, in a swing not only at Sanders but also at Clinton, who identified as a Republican when she got to college, he added: “I’m a Democrat. I’m not a former Republican”.
How often do you see politicians admitting that they got it wrong? And Clinton as to her personality type, Clinton claimed she was an “extro-introvert” who liked to be around people but also liked her alone time. “So, yeah, I want people to be responsible”.
Clinton, meanwhile, moved to consolidate her support with minority voters at the “First in the South” showdown with her top rivals for the party’s nomination, who have struggled to gain traction with black and Hispanic voters crucial to electoral success across the region.
Mr O’Malley put in perhaps the most consistently strong performance of the three candidates: he seemed both relaxed and professional, delivering eloquent, hard-hitting and catchy answers. “Two of them [are] from our party’s rather divided past”. “It never made sense to me from day one”.
Clinton, who has surged recently in the polls, was the last to speak. She mentioned neither of her opponents, directly or indirectly. “This is one of the reasons that I am so passionate about gun safety”, she says.
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“You get 12 seconds to say these things”, Sanders told the Journal Wednesday. She also voted for the war in Iraq and was the only candidate not to make an impassioned case against the decision to invade the country as based on false pretenses. And when it came time for lighter questions, O’Malley was game – and even acknowledged the he owns a kilt, but said it was a gift. He’s rolling out a new series of radio ads aimed at black voters in South Carolina and Spanish-language spots targeting Hispanics in Nevada.
