Democratic debate kicks off as Clinton and Sanders one-up each other on gun control and health care

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Source: UK Daily Mail

Sunday's Democratic Party presidential primary debate was promised as a long-awaited bare knuckle brawl between Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and it didn't disappoint.

While both White House hopefuls – and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley – have near-identical economic positions, squabbles have broken out between the Clinton and Sanders camps over gun control and the future of Obamacare.

Hours before the debate, the last one before the upcoming Iowa Caucuses, Sanders released a health care proposal that generated instant controversy because of tax-increase proposals buried in it – despite his earlier pledge not to tax middle-class Americans to pay for it.

Clinton twisted the knife Sunday night, saying she would 'build on the Affordable Care Act and improve it' by putting private insurance 'on a more stable platform that doesn't take too much money out of the pockets of hard-working Americans.'




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3404326/Democratic-debate-kicks-Clinton-Sanders-one-gun-control-health-care-reform.html

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1. So if I read this correctly

Hillary twisted a knife in a practicing Jew on live TV???

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

3. It is a good night for Democrates

A very good night.

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4. Yeah

I wouldn't touch that line either.....Have they no editors, no proofreaders?

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

5. Big hurry to get it up on line

Polls will no doubt be very interesting to look at in the next ten days.

Daily mail is a UK tabloid ,they like sensationalism because it sells ! However it is a visual tabloid meaning the photography is about as good as it gets .
It ran into some serious troubles back in 07/08 as did the London Times and other Murdoc papers over there. They got sued actually !

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7. He doesn't have to practice anymore. He's had it down pat for years!

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

2. CNN

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/17/politics/democratic-debate-2016-highlights/index.html

Clinton, Sanders clash at debate on guns, health care and Wall Street

CNN)The final Democratic presidential debate before voting begins quickly turned personal Sunday as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton traded barbs on gun control and health care.

Clinton slammed Sanders for voting "with the NRA, with the gun lobby numerous times," and reeled off a list of occasions when she said the Vermont senator sided with gun manufacturers and gun rights backers in Congress. She also said she was glad that he had "reversed his position on immunity," after Sanders backed away from a 2005 vote that gave gun manufacturers immunity from prosecution. He announced Saturday that he supports a proposed bill to amend that vote.

But Sanders hit back hard, arguing that he had a D-minus voting rating from the National Rifle Association and rejected her list of charges.

"I think that Secretary Clinton knows that what she says is very disingenuous," Sanders said.



The exchange was a powerful moment, unfolding on a debate stage just a block from the Charleston, South Carolina, church where a self-proclaimed white supremacist went on a shooting rampage last year that left nine African-Americans dead.

The debate came as Sanders is surging in some early state polls just two weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, handing him a realistic chance to beat Clinton in both the Hawkeye State and New Hampshire.

Health care read more at link.

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6. Well, hardly a

"bare-knuckled brawl."

I believe that all of our Dem candidates like and respect each other even though they have policy differences.

That is why I am proud to be a Democrat.