O Malley's Role In The Cold War

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Standing in the stage with four men in the small democratic field, Hillary was up against an angry 74-years old grumpy socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who practically yelled all throughout the debate. The youngest candidate in this democratic field is O’Malley, 52-years old, who struggled to gain any traction of exposure during the debate but gave a strong closing remark. He also had a slip up when talking about the recent situation occurring with Russia and Syria by confusing the Russia President with the Syria President that went unnoticed by his rivals on stage. But some media pundits caught the statement and posted on twitter “I think Assad’s invasion of Syria will be seen as a blunder.” Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee was just a confused candidate as voters were wonders how he was elected as a Senator and Governor. His answers to the questions such as changing his party affliction over the years, his vote of Glass-Steagall in the Senate, and if Edward Snowden is a traitor or hero had everyone including himself confused to what was he talking about. The little known candidate is former Virginia Senator Jim Webb; a decorated combat vet who probably scared the democrat viewers when he said his biggest enemy was a guy he killed who made the mistake of throwing a grenade at him in Vietnam. Receiving hardly any applause for his answers, liberals consider Webb an enemy due to the fact he can appeal to Republicans and is the most conservative out of all of them. I mean how dare he be pro-Keystone and have an A rating from the NRA? …show more content…
He surprisingly did a great job moderating the debate compare to Jake Tapper who moderated last month’s GOP debate. I personally expected Cooper to be soft on questions to protect the Democrats and make sure they don’t look bad but he proved me wrong and I will go on record to say Cooper won Tuesday’s

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