“Therefore we must choose resolve”. Clinton formally kicked off her campaign at New York’s Roosevelt Island last spring in a speech that touched on her “four fights”, a reference to the “four freedoms” Roosevelt laid out in 1941.
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“What I see is a candidate that, before, was sort of teetering”, said J. Ann Selzer, whose firm conducted the poll, “There was this undercurrent of, ‘Things were not as solid as you think.'” Now, Clinton is not only leading the race for the Democratic nomination, but “has a solid majority saying, ‘She’s my choice.’ She wasn’t close to that before”, Selzer added. Clinton has endorsed paid family leave in concept, but has yet to explain how she’d pay for it.
Overall, the speech was as fluid and comprehensive as any Clinton speech usually is.
“She will say that not only should we protect middle-class families from a tax increase, but she thinks those families should get tax relief to deal with rising costs and boost their incomes”, a Clinton aide said Friday.
But, she added, the U.S. needed to “be prepared to deploy more” special operations forces than Obama had authorised and give USA troops in Iraq more leeway to embed with Iraqi units engaged in combat.
Sanders is that he is becoming more known nationally, and his support is growing.
Clinton spoke less than a week after a shooting and bombing attack in Paris killed 129 people in Paris and wounded hundreds more.
Clinton has pointed out that former President George W. Bush once stressed that the USA was not at war with Islam and she doesn’t want “us to be painting with too broad a brush”. Claiming that the government of President Bashar Assad “slaughtered civilians”, Clinton urged the establishment of a no-fly zone in northern Syria, so that the US-backed rebels could create a “safe zone” for civilians.
Her command of the subject matter sets her apart from numerous Republican candidates who still struggle to speak with confidence about foreign policy issues.
She rebuked Saudi Arabia for not stopping its citizens funding extremist groups and chided Europe for not sharing intelligence on extremists.
“There is not going to be a successful military effort at this point to overturn Assad”, Clinton said. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) have been stepping lightly around one another’s diverging policy ideas.
“No, I am not a pacifist”.
Her situation is not unlike that of Hubert Humphrey, running as LBJ’s vice president in 1968 and having to gingerly discuss a Vietnam War that was not going well without openly breaking with the White House.
Still, Clinton’s appearance also reflected the contradictions of her presidential bid.
“Across the world, the Obama-Clinton foreign policy lies in tatters”, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee said in a statement that hinted at a major general election vulnerability for the former top USA diplomat.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the United States is at war with radical Islamic terrorism.
While Clinton wants the U.S.to lead the fight against ISIS, she is not in favor of troops being on long-term deployments in Syria.
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Offering a detailed assessment of the conflict in Syria, the Democratic presidential front-runner said America must lead the effort to fight against IS but called on Arab nations to supply much of the military force on the ground. GOP strategists, and the ads they make, can now accurately say Democrats will not recognize radical Islam, even after the carnage in Paris; will insist climate change remains the nation’s greatest security threat, even after the carnage in Paris; and remain determined to admit large numbers of Syrian refugees into the United States, even after the carnage in Paris.
