Here's the Las Vegas Gleaner (which the LA Times calls "Nevada's best known progressive blog") on Obama's exchange with Hillary on Social Security:
Obama's strongest moment was when he unpacked the disingenuousness of Clinton's Social Security triangulation by noting that only 6 percent of households have income of more than $97,500, so raising the cap on earnings that are taxed for Social Security would not touch the middle class, but the upper class...... Obama is clearly right. And Clinton's strategy on Social Security, both in the campaign and as a matter of policy, clearly does not extend much beyond whispering the occasional sweet nothing.
Obama's strongest moment was when he unpacked the disingenuousness of Clinton's Social Security triangulation by noting that only 6 percent of households have income of more than $97,500, so raising the cap on earnings that are taxed for Social Security would not touch the middle class, but the upper class...
... Obama is clearly right. And Clinton's strategy on Social Security, both in the campaign and as a matter of policy, clearly does not extend much beyond whispering the occasional sweet nothing.
Watch the video of the exchange:
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