{"id":108701,"date":"2015-10-22T22:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T04:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/unraveling-the-democratic-presidential-debate\/"},"modified":"2015-10-22T22:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T04:03:34","slug":"unraveling-the-democratic-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/unraveling-the-democratic-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling the Democratic presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O\u2019Malley, and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee take the stage before the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.<\/span>The Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAfrican-American youth unemployment is 51 percent,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cHispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent.\u201d Sanders didn\u2019t make clear that he was referring to a non-standard unemployment rate that counted not just unemployed workers, but those were working part-time due to the weak economy. Half True.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton announced last week that she no longer supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, despite once calling it the \u201cgold standard.\u201d \u201cI did say, when I was secretary of state, three years ago, that I hoped it would be the gold standard,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cIt was just finally negotiated last week, and in looking at it, it didn\u2019t meet my standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton correctly hit Sanders from the left during a lengthy discussion about gun policy after the country\u2019s latest mass shooting in Oregon. \u201cSen. Sanders, you voted against the Brady bill that mandated background checks and a waiting period,\u201d Clinton said. Before it became law in 1993, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which mandated a five-day waiting period for back-ground checks for gun purchases, underwent many transformations. Sanders, then Vermont\u2019s sole representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, voted against the bill in its entirety five times.<\/p>\n

Sanders and Clinton both correctly brought up ending mass incarceration. Sanders said, \u201cToday in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth. It seems to me that in-stead of building more jails and providing more incarceration, maybe, just maybe, we should be putting money into education and jobs for our kids.\u201d The latest federal census found more than 2.2 million people behind bars in the United States. Based on population size, America has an in-carceration rate higher than any other nation.<\/p>\n

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O\u2019Malley highlighted Clinton\u2019s \u201creversals on positions on Keystone and many other things,\u201d but Clinton defended herself on the pipeline project in particular.\u201d You know, we know that if you are learning, you\u2019re going to change your position,\u201d Clinton said in response. \u201cI never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone.\u201d Clinton did not indicate her position on Keystone until she announced that she opposed it in September 2015. No flip flop.<\/p>\n

Sanders defended his record as a democratic socialist by calling for the United States to bring its family leave policy in line with other countries. His claim that \u201cevery other major country\u201d offers paid family leave rates Mostly True, with the only caveat being that family leave isn\u2019t a universal benefit in some countries, due to exclusions on certain workers. Otherwise, the United States is absolutely an outlier among economic peers.<\/p>\n

CNN moderator Anderson Cooper pressed the candidates to offer their view of Edward Snowden, the government contractor considered a traitor or a hero for revealing the existence of massive national security databases of Americans\u2019 email and phone data.\u201dHe broke the laws of the United States,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cHe could have been a whistleblower. He could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower.\u201d<\/p>\n

That claim rates Mostly False. While American law does shield government whistleblowers, experts said it wouldn\u2019t necessarily apply in Snowden\u2019s case. A key 1998 law called the Intelligence Community Whistlblower Protection Act does lay out a pathway Snowden could have followed. However, there is at least a significant legal debate over whether the issues Snowden wanted to raise would fall under that law.<\/p>\n

Chip Tuthill is a resident of Mancos. Website used: www.politifact.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O\u2019Malley, and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee take the stage before the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.The Associated Press \u201cAfrican-American youth unemployment is 51 percent,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cHispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent.\u201d Sanders didn\u2019t make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5758],"tags":[44],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-108701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columnists","tag-dolores"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108701"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=108701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}