2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Seriously - was Wall Street attacked on 9/11? [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Senators don't represent a street or an industry, but humans.
Trying to exploit the emotions that voters have around the deaths and other destruction of 911 to defend yourself for being funded by Wall Street (even as you descry Citizens United) is horrific and dumb.
Why dumb? Rudy Giuliani's attempt to exploit 911--and he was actually in NYC that day--has already been ventilated and mocked and worked against him. Thanks to Biden, Giuliani's name has practically become noun verb 911. Finally, at this juncture, she is trying to appeal to Democratic voters, who were the most critical of what Giuliani attempted with 911. So, yes, I think it was dumb. It's this kind of thing that was the reason she requested only four debates and why the Coronation Central DNC made it so. (Quick--what are the dates of the last two debates.)