Winners and Losers from the the Second Presidential Democratic Debate (Washington Post)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Oh dear Hillary was the loser!

Losers
* Hillary Clinton: No, the former secretary of state wasn't bad. In fact, she was quite good for much of the debate. The problem was that Clinton made a few verbal and/or policy mistakes that will likely haunt her in the days to come. The biggest was her attempt to downplay the number of donations she receives from Wall Street by citing the work she did to help rebuild the financial sector of New York City following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. That's, um, not a very good response


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/14/winners-and-losers-from-the-second-democratic-presidential-debate/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b

[Kalidurga]

1. Bernie's opening remarks were terrible.

I seriously cringed. I am not by far the only one. But, then he proceeded to dominate the debate like nothing I have ever seen before. I almost forgot about the stinker at the beginning of the debate. I have a better idea how he will handle foreign policy now and I am all in favor of making this more of a thing where we spend more than 10% MIC budget to fight terrorism. That was the winning foreign policy position IMO.

[tammywammy]

2. They mentioned that as another Loser

Foreign policy Bernie Sanders: Sanders knew that the first question in the debate was going to be about the attacks in Paris — and what America should be saying and doing about them. And yet, he simply offered condolences to the people of France before moving on to his standard stump speech excoriating the "millionaires and billionaires." It felt very off. Sanders regained his footing somewhat when the topic turned to the vote on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq (he opposed it, Clinton supported it). But, the moment had passed, and Sanders had swung and missed at a chance to show that he could be a statesman as opposed to simply a domestic policy revolutionary.

[Kalidurga]

3. Yes he earned that mark.

But, he also earned being the overall big winner. I won't shy away from that assessment it wasn't just me either 30 other people deeply inhaled when he made his opening remarks, this was in real time.

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. Holy cripes top O'Malley staffer smacked down Hillary Clinton on Twitter

Lis Smith ?@Lis_Smith

My dad worked in WTC from the day it was built to the day it went down. @HillaryClinton, never invoke 9/11 to justify your Wall St positions

https://twitter.com/Lis_Smith/status/665727911085797376

Lis Smith ?@Lis_Smith

Deeply, deeply offensive to families--including mine--that were forever changed by that tragedy.

https://twitter.com/Lis_Smith/status/665731029936685056