Bernie was right about suing gun makers and "We're America" is no answer to Bernie's praise for Scandinavian social democracy.
She was wrong about Iraq, she is wrong about Putin, and she is going to be as bad as GW in foreign affairs.
She is who she is, after all.
But she is unlikely to undermine and won't seek to abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, unlike the Republicans.
Thank God for small favors.
Which is not to say this is unreasonable.
She reportedly said Bernie voted 5 times against the Brady bill.
It's been so long I have forgotten what it did.
She can't flank him on the left on foreign policy or core progressive issues so she's hammering him on this one social issue.
When asked if the Vermont senator was strong on gun control, she said, "No, not at all," before vowing to go after the makers of guns used in shootings.
She is flat wrong on that, I think.
Per BBC
The two also argued over the merits of capitalism.
If they did, the reported squabbling does not include or show it.
Mr Sanders called for a "political revolution", arguing that "Congress does not regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress".
But when he suggested that the US should look to Nordic countries because of "what they have accomplished for their working people", Mrs Clinton responded: "We are not Denmark. I love Denmark. We are the United States of America.
"I'm a progressive, but I'm a progressive who likes to get things done," she said.
Hillary waves the flag in opposition to Bernie's social democratic criticisms and they call that a defense of capitalism?
It was a dodge.
To my knowledge, Bernie has never explained his talk of a "political revolution."
Is that his inner Leninist speaking out?
I think she's more right about this than Bernie.
Clinton was unmoved by public approbation for Snowden, who exposed the depths of US and UK surveillance to media including the Guardian in 2013.
“He broke the laws of the United States,” she said.
“He could have been a whistleblower, he could have gotten all the protections of a whistleblower.
He chose not to do that.
He stole very important information that has fallen into the wrong hands so I think he should not be brought home without facing the music.”
Snowden has said he did not believe he was granted adequate protection from reprisal under whistleblower laws.
Laws protecting whistleblowers in intelligence agencies are written differently from laws protecting others who oppose their employers – including in the government – on grounds of conscience, and are generally considered comparatively weak.
Sanders – Clinton’s main challenger for the Democratic nomination – was more lenient.
“I think Snowden played a very important role in educating the American public,” the Vermont senator said.
He, too, said that Snowden had broken the law and suggested that he ought to be tried.
“I think there should be a penalty to that,” he said.
“But I think that education should be taken into consideration before the sentencing.”
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