Clinton: I "Raised A Big Yellow Caution Flag" On Nafta

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New York Times   |  Katharine Q. Seelye   |   April 1, 2008 09:43 PM


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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton told a labor group here Tuesday that she "raised a big yellow caution flag" against the North American Free Trade Agreement while she was first lady, even though others say she actually promoted the trade deal.

And Gerry McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, vouched for her opposition, telling the labor leaders that the day Nafta was approved, she called him and said, "We lost."

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Oh no, Hillary!
There you go again ...
Don't you realize, we already caught your hands in the cookie jar!
And by the way, where are your tax returns?
You promised us to show them more than a week already ....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:31 PM on 04/02/2008

Hilary,
Liar, Liar, pants on fire!!! You pushed and supported NAFTA, you lie about Bosnia, you voted for a war to fall in line with the GW BS and by your own admission failed to read to paperwork and now you tell people in PA that you had issues with NAFTA, how convenient is that??
Where are your taxes??? STOP playing games and show the people in PA where the money came from, it is perhaps that these pardons that Bill provided before he left the white house help open the cash coffers??? We want to know, so does the people in PA.
PEOPLE IN PA, DEMAND THAT HILARY RELEASE HER TAXES
PEOPLE IN PA, DO NOT GET FOOLED BY LIES, IE.. BOSNIA, NAFTA AND THE WAR BY WHICH YOUR CHILDREN ARE DYING FOR
WHERE ARE YOUR TAXES HILARY????

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:09 PM on 04/02/2008

"Liar, liar, pants on fire"? Is this the mentality of Obama supporters?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:25 PM on 04/02/2008

Fool me twice shame on Bill.

ABC News,
Clinton attended NAFTA meetings to work for its passage. True statement. Period. End of story.

As we reported yesterday, on November 10, 1993, Clinton headlined a briefing and rah-rah session for businesswomen to support NAFTA.

And as the AP reports today, the recently released 11,000-plus pages of her First Lady "schedules show her holding at least five meetings in 1993 aimed at helping to win congressional approval of the deal."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:48 AM on 04/02/2008

I "Raised A Big Yellow Caution Flag" On Nafta It Wasn't My Fault Nobody Heard Me.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:39 AM on 04/02/2008

I remember the NAFTA fight well and Hillary is a liar. And, McEntee never cared about NAFTA because it doesn't affect his members. As for her call, was she hooked up to a lie detector Gerry? Maybe the both of you could submit to a test.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:08 AM on 04/02/2008

Hillary Clinton is proving it more and more each day that she is a pathological liar.......
She just does not stop.............I for one do not want another liar in the White House.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:32 AM on 04/02/2008

Pay no attention to what her WH schedules says and, ignore the video from Bosnia. just read her lips. Nixon in a pants suit!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:37 AM on 04/02/2008

Hillary's stance on NAFTA has been validated so often that it's clear that Obama's attack on this is nothing more than dirty politics.

Good that the union leaders remember the real deal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:21 AM on 04/02/2008

Why did she (and Obama) support the extension of NAFTA to Peru just a couple of months ago if she (they) oppose NAFTA? They are both lying loads who are willing to see union scale manufacturing jobs performed offshore at slave wages, many times by the same companies that performed them here.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:49 PM on 04/03/2008

Do you actually think the press is against Clinton when they call her on these lies. It's a huge conspiracy against Clinton I guess. They use computer graphics I guess to supper impose her face on these videos that prove she lies.

During the last debate Hillery said she support NAFTA when it first came out but has changed her position. Now she says she never approved of it. Haven't you been listening to her?

I would really like to here more from these Clinton supporters that actually feel Clinton is running a clean but tuff race and that feel it's Obama that is throwing cheap shots. I really need to understand what your reasoning is and where your information comes from. I watch MSNBC, FOX NEWS, CNN and what ever else I can get my hands on. I just don't see it.

Please, try to convert me to Clintonism. Give me some reason to consider her other than this vast amount of experience she says she has that she really can't prove.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:02 AM on 04/02/2008

AnninCA can't help you out.

She is a Rove Troll posing as a Hillary Clinton supporter.

Check out her profile.

She has never written one word against Bush's War of Choice, Bush, Cheney, etc..

While Clinton and Obama supporters write the pros and cons about the

candidates, we, all, have plenty to say against BushCo and we do.

Not AnninCA.

She represents the GOP promoting Hillary because they fear Obama.

She is a TROLL.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:16 PM on 04/02/2008

I've always thought AnninCA was [Ann] Lewis [in] [C]linton [A]pparatus or someone working for her.

She is not a Rove Troll posing as an HRC supporter she is a Clinton supporter. That she might seem like a Rove troll is because she is so totally "inside baseball": across the aisle there is this mutual respect society among the usually suspects/campaign consultants. She just the Mike Murphy of Democratic Party. Always running a loser campaign. But at least she has her candidate to blame this time around.

Richardson and/or Dodd were my first choices, but I'll enthusiastically vote for Obama. I will not vote for HRC because she cannot win. She is just not likeable. And basically that is what most of this all comes down to, do you like the candidates style, personality, character, plus some good organizing skills.

O has the style, personality and character. C doesn't. Negatives through the roof.

O can organize. C has surrounded herself with people who couldn't organize there way out of a paper bag.

Maybe Nader's correct. If Obama gets ripped off at the convention, then the Democratic Party should close down and start all over.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:53 PM on 04/02/2008

TALES OF NAFTA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG00SWAqcvw

"I have been a critic of Nafta from the very beginning." ( HRC)
"I was one of the voices in the administration warning about NAFTA". (HRC)

When questioned by Sen. Obama, through mailers sent out in Ohio, concerning claims Clinton made that she opposed NAFTA as first lady, HRC responded by claiming Obama used dirty tricks: "Shame on you, Barack Obama. It is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public."

NAFTA Facts:

1. White House documents reveal that HRC was actually a NAFTA supporter. Documents reveal she held at least FIVE strategy meetings to win Congressional NAFTA approval.

2. Hillary Clinton helped the white house block opposition to NAFTA from environmental & labor groups.

3. HRC was the featured speaker at a meeting on 11/10/93 where 120 women leaders were asked to lobby the senate for passage of NAFTA. Participants present at that meeting said: " Her remarks were totally PRO-NAFTA." "There was no equivocation for her support for NAFTA at the time."

Clinton now suggests David Gergen"s assertions guide questions concerning Clinton"s pro-NAFTA position. Gergen, former Clinton advisor, claims Clinton was "unenthusiastic" about NAFTA, despite Clinton"s five strategic meetings, keynote address on 11/10/93 giving PRO-NAFTA remarks, lobbying key leaders for pro-NAFTA support, and statements by meeting participants who attest to Clinton"s PRO-NAFTA position in aiding her husband in the passage of Nafta.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:17 AM on 04/02/2008

You are totally wrong on all counts.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:02 AM on 04/02/2008

Are you sniffing glue?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 AM on 04/02/2008

whats a big yellow anything got to do with it? the lights either red or green.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:03 AM on 04/02/2008

A president needs to be able to lie. Clinton and Bush just suck at it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:46 AM on 04/02/2008

She lies with such ease....Just like Bush.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:39 AM on 04/02/2008

Just like Clinton.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:09 AM on 04/02/2008

Do we want a president who takes half measures?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:34 AM on 04/02/2008

I'm from Western PA. HIllary's bullshit on NAFTA won't wok this time around as it did in Ohio.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:33 AM on 04/02/2008

SURE you did, Hillary.

Sure you did.

You also invented fire, too. Remember?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:25 AM on 04/02/2008

While serving on the Walmart Board, Hillary, with Chelsea present, took it hostage while under fire, put up a yellow flag and demanded that her husband stop pushing for NAFTA. That was just before facing sniper fire in Bosnia.

And after supporting the extension of NAFTA to Peru a couple of months ago (along with Obama), she attacked NAFTA (along with Obama). What a couple of lying loads.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:09 AM on 04/02/2008

note to those not affiliated with AFSCME: Gerald McEntee vouching for you means nothing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:07 AM on 04/02/2008

She figures the more lies she can tell, the more she can say the press is picking on her when they call her on it.

Hillery needs to stay the victim in order for her supports to feel the need to defend her. After all, she is sensitive and the press and Obama are mean.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:56 AM on 04/02/2008

Hillary is bashing Bush now but has she tried to stop him - NO! She has given him everything he
ever asked for and that is proof enough. Along with her lies, her sly answers about bringing the
troops home when the security of that country allows that - what, why are people reading things into
her speech. That means she won't bring home the troops. We do not owe her the coronation.
Vote Obama - the lesser evil. Kucinich was the man with a plan for change.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:01 AM on 04/02/2008

Gerry McEntee has been with Hillary on her Campaign since before it started.

Today is the FIRST TIME HE HAS REMEMBERED HER TELEPHONE CALL?

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Was he, also, at her side in Bosnia taking sniper fire?

When Hillary was campaigning in Iowa, Texas and Ohio, isn't it strange that Gerry

didn't recall this very important phone call?

Hmmmmmmmm

Perhaps it took HIllary's recollection of it to "remind" Gerry?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:47 AM on 04/02/2008

She's lies for the sport of it. Here more proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BrPZYbCdJ4

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:38 AM on 04/02/2008

This lady poses a serious threat to the lying record of George W Bush.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:04 PM on 04/02/2008

Hillary displays a pattern of lying and being unethical, why are they suppressing this story. The Republicans were just saving this to use in the general, won't happen now. posted 04/01/2008 at 23:01:43
Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding " as if the Douglas case had never occurred.

The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.

Zeifman says that if Hillary, Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar had succeeded, members of the House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied the opportunity to even participate in the drafting of articles of impeachment against Nixon.

http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm

Please do not vote for Hillary, she is a liar and would lie and do anything to win, even break the law. One more straw on the camel's back. When this professor hits the MSM, Hillary is done.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:35 AM on 04/02/2008

Here we go again. She should be required to provide citations in her speeches.

In any of those "first lady papers" was there any mention of her being against it? Sounds like she promoted it!

Here's the thing. She can't just say this was a mistake in some ways, and here are my ideas for balancing it for us, and foreign countries. Noooo, instead its this total unsubstantiated farce, that she was the lone voice of reason.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:34 AM on 04/02/2008

I'm sorry, she must have misspoken here, since we all know that the evidence (and everyone involved) shows she was a big proponent of NAFTA. I think what she meant here was that "I raised a big yellow flag" on Bosnia, because she didn't want it to get in the way of her health care pet project:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/04/hillary-weighed-political-ambition-vs.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:30 AM on 04/02/2008

Except there is actual footage of her promoting NAFTA.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:00 AM on 04/02/2008

"I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again," he said with a clenched jaw and stern expression that day. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. These allegations are false."

A Clinton Family Trait

Nafta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BrPZYbCdJ4

Bosnia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6JN7ALF7Y

Ireland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCmKkLdCuA


October 11, 2007
Flashback: Does Michigan Matter to Clinton?

Hillary Clinton, during which she was asked about the Michigan primary:

"I personally did not think it made any difference, whether or not my name was on the ballot. You know, it's clear, in this election they're having, it is not going to count for anything."

http://www.youtube.com/user/MDRUDGE

Over By February 5th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saBU6ux0hsQ

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:58 AM on 04/02/2008
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