--- title: Democratic Debate: O'Malley Age Shames Clinton, Sanders description: O'Malley asks to "offer a different generation's perspective" during debate canonical: https://time.com/4156180/democratic-debate-omalley-clinton-sanders/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-20T02:48:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:31:31.597Z article:section: Politics og:title: Democratic Debate: O'Malley Age Shames Clinton, Sanders og:description: O'Malley asks to "offer a different generation's perspective" during debate og:url: https://time.com/4156180/democratic-debate-omalley-clinton-sanders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9912db13bf634a5/6988763b5f570f2fd9b1ee93/omalley-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3200 og:image:height: 1800 og:image:alt: Dem 2016 Debate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Democratic Debate: O'Malley Age Shames Clinton, Sanders twitter:description: O'Malley asks to "offer a different generation's perspective" during debate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9912db13bf634a5/6988763b5f570f2fd9b1ee93/omalley-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Martin O'Malley Age Shames Clinton and Sanders > Sponsored content. 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Martin O’Malley speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Jim Cole—AP by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 20, 2015 2:48 AM UTC Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley played the youth card during the Democratic presidential debate on Saturday, offering up a “different generation’s” perspective on foreign policy. “Can I offer a different generation’s perspective on this,” the 52-year-old candidate asked during a discussion on whether or not regime change is the solution to the ongoing war in Syria. The crowd in New Hampshire responded negatively to the age-charged comment, with some boos audible in the hall. Both Clinton and Sanders are about two decades older than the former governor of Maryland, a fact the candidate likely hopes to exploit as the primary elections rapidly approach. Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton responded to O’Malley’s comment by noting that the candidate had made a number of charged comments during the evening’s debate. O’Malley, she said, had been making “all kinds of comments” with a significant pause strategically injected in the sentence. **Read More:** [_Democrats Clash in Last Debate of 2015_](http://time.com/4155432/democratic-debate-third-data-breach/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4156180/democratic-debate-omalley-clinton-sanders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4156180/democratic-debate-omalley-clinton-sanders/"},"headline":"Martin O'Malley Age Shames Clinton and Sanders","datePublished":"2015-12-20T02:48:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:31:31.597Z","description":"O'Malley asks to \"offer a different generation's perspective\" during debate","url":"https://time.com/4156180/democratic-debate-omalley-clinton-sanders/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","Syria","Bernie Sanders","Martin O'malley","Democratic debate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9912db13bf634a5/6988763b5f570f2fd9b1ee93/omalley-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9912db13bf634a5/6988763b5f570f2fd9b1ee93/omalley-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dem 2016 Debate","caption":"Dem 2016 Debate","creditText":"Jim Cole—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4156180/democratic-debate-omalley-clinton-sanders/","name":"Martin O'Malley Age Shames Clinton and Sanders"}}]}] ```