FOCUS: 19 Great Moments From the Sixth Democratic Debate
Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone
Stuart writes: "If it were an old-timey boxing match, promoters might have called it the Melee in Milwaukee, or maybe the Wis-Confrontation. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders walked into Thursday evening's debate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a primary win a piece to their names, and a lot to lose."
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Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone
Stuart writes: "If it were an old-timey boxing match, promoters might have called it the Melee in Milwaukee, or maybe the Wis-Confrontation. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders walked into Thursday evening's debate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a primary win a piece to their names, and a lot to lose."
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Thursday's debate brought references to "doing" marijuana, and a fight over who is least friendly with Henry Kissinger
f it were an old-timey boxing match, promoters might have called it the Melee in Milwaukee, or maybe the Wis-Confrontation. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders walked into Thursday evening's debate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a primary win a piece to their names, and a lot to lose. Clinton was clinging to the edge she's managed to hold over Sanders in national polls, while Sanders was anxious to maintain the momentum he gained from a landslide victory in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
The folks watching at home could tell it was going to be a good one when, as Clinton was laying out the plans for her first term, Sanders offered a sharp rebuke. "You're not in the White House yet," he said. But the gloves really didn't come off until the very end, when Clinton compared Sanders to a Republican. "Madame secretary, that is a low blow," Sanders bristled.
The next proving ground for the Democrats will be the Nevada caucuses, on February 20th, followed by the South Carolina primary a week later.
- "Before it was called Obamacare it was called Hillarycare." -Clinton
- "We are not England. We are not France." -Clinton on the United States' employer-based health care system
- "Secretary Clinton, you're not in the White House yet." -Sanders
- "This is the first time there have been a majority of women on stage." -Clinton, referencing the fact that both of the debate moderators were women
- "I think a Sanders victory would be of some historic value as well." -Sanders
- "I'm not asking people to support me because I'm a woman. I'm asking people to support me because I think I'm the most qualified, experienced and ready person to be the president and the commander in chief." -Clinton
- "When it comes to a woman having to make a very personal choice ... in that case, my Republican colleagues love the government, and want the government to make that choice for every woman in America. If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what is." -Sanders
- "Both the African-American community and the white community do marijuana at roughly the same rate." -Sanders
- Moderator Gwen Ifill: "I want to talk to you about white people."
Sanders: "White people?!" - "Hopefully after the 2016 election, some of our Republicans will come to their senses and realize we are not going to deport 11 or 12 million people in this country." -Clinton
- "Let's not insult the intelligence of the American people. Why in God's name does Wall Street make huge campaign donations? I guess just for the fun of it! They want to throw money around." -Sanders
- "I don't believe that a vote in 2002 is a plan to defeat ISIS in 2016." -Clinton
- "I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend.... I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state." -Sanders, distancing himself from Clinton, who called Kissinger a "friend" in the last Democratic debate
- "If you're going to quote me from 2008, Sen. Sanders, quote what I said." -Clinton, taking issue with Sanders' characterization of her disagreement with President Obama on Iran
- "It's easy to talk to your friends. It's harder to talk to your enemies." -Sanders
- "The kind of criticism we have heard from Sen. Sanders about our president, I expect from Republicans, I do not expect from someone running for the Democratic nomination to succeed President Obama." -Clinton
- "Have you ever disagreed with a president? I suspect you may have." -Sanders
- "One of us ran against Barack Obama. I was not that candidate." -Sanders
- "I am not a single-issue candidate, and I do not think we live in a single-issue country." -Clinton
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