Posted on 10/14/2015 5:27:51 AM PDT by CASchack
On Tuesday night, after months of political heartburn, things finally started cutting Hillary Rodham Clintons way.
Her performance at the first Democratic presidential debate was so commanding that even her greatest vulnerability the lingering controversy over her private email practices as secretary of state ended up redounding to her benefit.
After she crisply explained that she made a mistake using a private email server and defended her judgment, the moderator, Anderson Cooper of CNN, turned to her biggest threat in the primary campaign so far, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in hopes that he would attack her. Mr. Sanders instead came to her aid.
Let me say something that may not be great politics, but I think the secretary is right and that is that the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails, Mr. Sanders said to cheers and a standing ovation from the Democratic audience.
Thank you! Mrs. Clinton said, reaching out and shaking his hand. Me, too! Me, too!
Highlights From the Debate
Catch up on analysis of the first Democratic presidential debate featuring Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin OMalley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee.
All night, the debate played to Mrs. Clintons advantage and to her opponents limitations. From gun control and banking regulations to debt-free college and Social Security benefits, Mrs. Clinton positioned herself as a champion of liberals, young people, and the elderly the very voters who make up the Sanders coalition while also repeatedly reaching out to women, as an advocate for families and children (and as, potentially, the nations first female president).
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Old Cankles held up well- her facelift looked great- nice plumped up cheeks. Less shrill -only one big cackle- but no sign of all her dire medical issues. Interesting.
This is insane. Almost every day Judge Napolitano is on Fox Business spelling out all the laws Hillary has broken. If an ordinary citizen had done what Hillary has done, he would be indicted. America is becoming a lawless country. If you are rich and powerful, you can do anything and get away with it.
You just now figuring that out?
Yes I’m being sarcastic...
And you are right. The media is very unfair, have been for a long time. I just didn’t know how bad it had gotten until fairly recently. I didn’t have TV at all for 30 years, and didn’t miss it at all. I got news from the internet mostly since 1995 or so, newspapers before that.
But since watching the so called debates the past couple of months, I’m just disgusted. Fox is the only one trying to tell the whole story, and they lean toward conservative, but the fact is NONE of them should have any political bias at all.
And that’s why most people don’t now what’s actually going on. The so called news is so skewed in one direction or the other nobody is actually telling the whole truth, and it is their damn job to tell the truth. If we didn’t have the internet i think 90% of the people in this country would have never even heard about Hillary and her email server. Nobody would even be questioning the Democrats onstage last night about HOW they intend to pay for all of this.
You are completely correct, if a Republican said that the press would want them crucified. But Democrats don’t have to explain a thing...
I think they also made a big mistake shutting out Hillary’s email problems, that would have let the other candidates hammer her on credibility and dishonesty. Since they didn’t do it, I’m pretty sure the others already know she’s the “anointed one” and they are jockeying for cabinet positions.
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