2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton Turns, Repeatedly, To A Democrat Not On The Debate Stage: Obama
Hillary Clinton may have been flanked by Martin O'Malley and Sen. Bernie Sanders at the presidential primary debate Sunday night in South Carolina, but she wanted voters to see her as shoulder-to-shoulder with another Democrat: the one living in the White House.
Seeking to stabilize her 2016 campaign in the state where her 2008 contest with Barack Obama took its nastiest turn, Clinton linked herself to the president again and again. And again.
She praised Obama for having "led our country out of the Great Recession."
She praised Obama's nuclear deal with Iran: "I was very pleased to be part of what the president put into action."
She praised Obama's handling of the Assad government in Syria even though she fought with him over whether to arm and train Syrian rebels when she was his secretary of state.
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jfern
(5,204 posts)For being too much for gun control, for criticizing her on universal healthcare, and for not getting the votes of "hard working white people", and she told him that lobbyists are people too.
But now he's convenient to hide behind.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)to answer that 3:00 a.m. phone call.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)MrWendel
(1,881 posts)were the only ones on stage proud of Obama's accomplishments.