Clinton’s Not-So-Shiny Moments During The First Debate

Thought I’d blog about Hillary Clinton’s not-so-great moments in the first Democratic debate of the 2016 presidential election. The debate took place on October 13, 2015.

• When discussing banks that are too big to fail, Bernie Sanders said his plan was to break up the big banks. Anderson Cooper then asked Hillary Clinton how her plan was better. She said:
  

  …The plan that I have put forward would actually empower regulators to break up big banks if we thought they posed a risk.

  If they posed a risk? How about now? The largest five banks control 45% of the industry’s total assets!

• After Bernie Sanders brought up the deregulation that happened under the Clinton administration and how we need to break the big banks up, Anderson Cooper asked Hillary Clinton to respond. She responded by saying:
  

  I represented Wall Street, as a senator from New York, and I went to Wall Street in December of 2007 — before the big crash that we had — and I basically said, “cut it out! Quit foreclosing on homes! Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors.”

  Clearly that worked.

• When Anderson Cooper asked how would a Hillary Clinton administration not be a third term from President Obama, Hillary Clinton responded by saying:
  

  Well, I think that’s pretty obvious. I think being the first woman president would be quite a change from the presidents we’ve had up until this point, including President Obama.

  Wow, that is new!

• Anderson Cooper asked if Hillary Clinton regretted her vote on the Patriot Act of 2001 (you know, the one that took away liberties such as habeas corpus, Hillary Clinton said this:
  

  No, I don’t. I think it was necessary to make sure that we were able after 9/11 to put in place the security that we needed.

  Aww, come on, really?

• When talking about the DREAM act and instate tuition for undocumented immigrants, Anderson Cooper asked where Hillary Clinton stood on providing it since both Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley are in for it. She said this:
  

  My plan would support any state that takes that position, and would work with those states and encourage more states to do the same thing.

  Anderson Cooper then interjected and asked if she believed undocument immigrants should get instate college tuition, she replied:

  …If their states agree, then we want more states to do the same thing.

  So she’s for STATES RIGHTS? WTF?

• Anderson Cooper said Hillary Clinton plead guilty to being kind of moderate and center and asked her if she changed her identity depending on who she was talking to. She replied:
  

  No. I think that, like most people that I know, I have a range of views, but they are rooted in my values and my experience.

  A “range of views?” Clearly, yes, her views are whatever is politically popular at the time. She helped negotiate the TPP and is now against it. She also switched her position on the Keystone XL Pipeline, free college tuition, gay marriage… the list goes on.

• When Martin O’Malley said Hillary Clinton was against Glass-Steagall, Hillary Clinton responded with this:
  

  Well, you know, everybody on this stage has changed a position or two.

  How original. And that came from a real presidential candidate!

The full transcript can be found at the Washington Post’s website. Please note that it is subject to change since big media has been changing things all over the internet since the debate. Their online polling said Bernie Sanders won, focus groups said Bernie Sanders won, he got the most google searches, the most followers on social media; yet all the news outlets claim Hillary Clinton won.