– ‘She never wavers’ –
“As secretary of state, she stared down some of the toughest dictators in the world, and so I have no doubt that she can take on the Tea Party, and the gun lobby,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, the influential US women’s health care provider.
“She never blinks, she never wavers.”
The message Clinton and her team sought to drive home was that her proposals are more realistic than those of Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist who has put taking down the financial elite and Wall Street at the heart of his campaign.
He has repeatedly attacked Clinton over what he says are her close ties to some big banks, and has chastised her for giving paid speeches to Wall Street firms.
But Clinton fought back Sunday.
“I have taken on Wall Street for years!” she said. “I have a better plan to do it.”
“No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too big to jail,” she added.
She also insisted on her foreign policy bona fides and the “very specific steps” she would take to defeat the Islamic State jihadist group.
Clinton devoted a long section of her stump speech to her role in the Osama bin Laden raid in 2011, which several of President Barack Obama’s aides considered to be too dangerous and risky. She said she encouraged Obama to go ahead with it.
“The person who sits in that (White House) situation room has to be able to weigh intelligence and evidence to be able to really dig deep in these details, and I offer you my experience and my judgment,” she said.
“We need to chart a steady course,” she concluded – suggesting that a Sanders administration would lack such stability.
Her candidacy on Monday got the backing of The Boston Globe, a newspaper with thousands of subscribers in New Hampshire, which follows Iowa next month as balloting gets underway to choose the two major parties’ presidential nominees.
“This is Clinton’s time and the Globe enthusiastically endorses her,” the daily wrote.
Over the weekend, she got the endorsement of The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest circulation daily.
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