she pointed to the reality that ISIS will be toppled only if there is an uprising by fellow Sunnis. There has to be a Sunni Awakening against ISIS in 2016, like the Sunni Awakening that toppled Al Qaeda in Iraq starting in 2007.
.. She seems to understand that if we end up allying with Russia in a common fight against terrorism, we will end up preserving Assad, preserving ISIS and making everything worse.
Hit by Sanders over Wall Street Ties, Clinton Invokes 9/11 Attacks
“Why, over her political career, has Wall Street been a major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton?” the Vermont senator asked. “Maybe they’re dumb, and they don’t know what they’re going to get. But I don’t think so.” “There has never been a candidate — never — who has received huge amounts of money from oil, from coal, from Wall Street, from the military-industrial complex, not one candidate is like, ‘Oh, these campaign contributions have not influenced me, I’m going to be independent,’” Sanders said. “Why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something. Everybody knows that.”
.. Sanders — who has refused donations from large corporations and super PACs — said Clinton’s Wall Street support explains why she’s unwilling to carve up the largest banks or reinstate the limits imposed by Glass-Steagall. “I’m not asking Wall Street for money,” he said. “I WILL break up these banks.” Accusing Sanders of “impugn[ing her] integrity,” Clinton tried to defend herself. “I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9/11,” she said, referring to her time in the U.S. Senate. “When we were attacked, where were we attacked? We were attacked on downtown Manhattan, where Wall Street is.
“I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild,” she explained. “That was good for New York, it was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists that had attacked our country.”
Jeb and Hillary: A Tale of Two Establishment Favorites
On Friday, as Hillary Clinton was basking in the reaction to her marathon appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, her communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told reporters that the hour between nine and ten o’clock on Thursday night, after the hearing finally finished, was the campaign’s best fund-raising hour yet.
.. Meanwhile, the campaign of the supposed Republican front-runner, Jeb Bush, was letting it be known that it was laying off people and slashing its payroll by forty per cent.
.. In virtually monopolizing media coverage and subjecting Bush to months of public criticism, the New York billionaire has transformed the dynamics of the G.O.P. race in a way that almost nobody anticipated—a point the managers of the Bush campaign acknowledged in an internal memo announcing the cost cuts. “We would be less than forthcoming if we said we predicted in June that a reality television star supporting Canadian-style single-payer health care and partial-birth abortion would be leading the G.O.P. primary,” the memo said.
.. If Bush were wowing the world with innovative and substantive policy proposals, his verbal shortcomings could perhaps be overlooked. But he isn’t. His tax-cutting economic plan, which he claims will increase G.D.P. growth to four per cent a year, is largely based on wishful thinking. His foreign-policy speeches are so vague that they’re hard to evaluate. On social issues, such as guns and abortion, he has said little to distinguish himself from the G.O.P. pack. In 2000, his brother George ran on the platform of “compassionate Conservatism,” which was his way of distinguishing himself from Newt Gingrich and other Republican bomb throwers. Jeb’s only memorable slogan is “Jeb!”
.. Indeed, it now appears possible that his entire campaign is based on two false premises.
The first is that Republican voters want a shift to the center.
.. The second shaky premise is the notion that Republicans are keen on restoring the Bush dynasty.
The Hillary Hearing
The Tampa BayTimes’s PolitiFact Web site noted recently that it was largely accurate to say that all the investigations found things that could have been done better (such as intelligence sharing) but none found “overt wrongdoing.” (Meanwhile, the Obama Administration’s larger Libya policy and its real failures have hardly been discussed.
.. Gowdy was also bothered by the fact that one of Clinton’s aides, Huma Abedin, had sent her an e-mail about milk.