“I demand that Wall Street start paying its fair share of taxes”, he said during a fiery tirade against wealth redistribution that he claimed has seen trillions of dollars move from middle class hands to America’s wealthiest citizens.
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Calling for tax hikes is not new for Democratic candidates.
Bernie Sanders, who is polling ahead or even with Hillary Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, said he is showing some momentum in another early nominating: SC. Though she leads in national polls, she risks losing the state again, with Sanders having made large gains in recent weeks.
Obama, who won the Democratic nomination over Clinton in 2008, lauded her experience, saying it will help her govern if she wins but described her campaign as “cautious”. While the questions she faced where less specific on policy, she emphasized that the tough challenges a president faces – an implicit suggestion that Sanders is proposing unrealistic ideas.
“It just seems to me that the problems we have are so serious that we have got to go beyond establishment politics and establishment economics”, Sanders said.
“I have the greatest respect for the vice president”, she said.
US President Barack Obama is not officially endorsing a Democratic candidate to replace him just yet, but he had some high praise for “wicked smart” Hillary Clinton.
Hillary further said, “I have been fighting to give kids and women and the people who are left out and left behind a chance to make the most out of their own lives”.
Clinton was immediately put on the defensive by a young voter who said many of his peers view her as dishonest.
“I’ve been at the front lines of change and progess since I was your age”, she told the college student.
Conservative Valley-based political expert Stan Barnes said Bernie Sanders stood out at Monday’s Iowa town hall of the Democratic presidential candidates with his authenticity and comfort level onstage.
Rather than choosing her husband, Bill Clinton, Mrs Clinton responded unhesitatingly: “Sorry President Obama, sorry Bill, Abraham Lincoln”.
However, he has handed the Clinton team an easy point of attack with an admission this would come from raising taxes.
At the CNN “town hall” meeting at Drake University, the former secretary of state, senator from NY and first lady touted her resume.
When asked whether he would tell his supporters which of the two other candidates to back, he simply replied: “Hold strong at your caucus”. Her supporters have suggested Sanders would lose in a landslide to the Republicans.
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“What I said on a television program, and I did not say it well, is that sometimes the base of an organization looks at the world a little bit differently than the leadership”, Sanders said.
