Clinton Adviser Mark Penn Meets To Discuss Free-Trade Pact That Hillary Opposes

Just add one word, "says"...."A Pact that Hil-liar-y SAYS She Opposes".

This seems exactly like NAFTA and the message she secretly gave the Canadians. I wouldn't be surprised if Penn was the envoy for that one, too.

Have to agree that what this proves is that Mark Penn is an idiot and should definitely be fired. He really is one of the reasons the Clinton campaign has stumbled so badly.
Troutlady.., just a heads up..., but Penn was doing his work as a marketeer for Columbia, not Blackwater. Columbia is bad enough.

Not only has CNN and MSNBC not bothered mention this flagrant abuse but no one has talked about Penn's lobbyingfor Blackwater this week before congress....they got a one year contract despite their killing of citizens and other voiations

"Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist met on Monday with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement -- a pact that the presidential candidate opposes."

Apparently Senator Clinton thinks she has the votes of unions and blue collar workers in her pocket. I think they will prove to her that they are smarter than that.

Mark Penn, a chief campaign advisor for Clinton, met with Colombia's ambassador to the United States. Penn, while not representing Clinton, but was promoting his lobbying firm Burson-Marstellar Worldwide discussed a bilateral free-trade agreement WHICH CLINTON OPPOSES!! Hillary does not need self-serving advisors. THIS MAN SHOULD BE FIRED!!!!

The silence from Hillary's supporters on this issue should be omen for what's to come in PA.

The Clintons and their surrogates are no firiends of Blue collar America. After Nafta, they are hard working to oursource more of our jobs.

I can here her now, "pay no attention to that man behind the red curtain, making deals that I'm saying I'm against, it's just an illusion". Yet, people still will vote for her, because after all her husband did a good job so that must mean she will! Did her and Bush Jr. attend the same schools, the schools of smoke and mirrors?

the woman + the former president + the campaign staff + the lies + the hypocrisy = a great waste

I'm shocked! Wait, no I'm not.

Quick! Quick! Release the tax returns!

MARK PENN "MISATTENDS" COLUMBIA TRADE MEETING

Reuters
A "sleep deprived" Mark Penn admitted today that he "misattended" a meeting with two Columbian trade representatives, in a clear conflict of interest with his duties as a head adviser for the Clinton campaign. "I was sleep deprived," said Penn. "I made a mistake. I'm sorry. It proves I'm human.

Penn later regaled members of the press with a tale of how he was actually hit on the head with a hand grenade during the meeting, and how Hillary will win this race by both opposing CAFTA and assuring its passage if elected president.

Penn is expected to announce his retirement from the Clinton campaign soon, in order to spend more time with his family.

Hillary on NAFTA-gate:
"I would ask you to look at that story, substitute my name for Senator Obama. If some of my advisers had been having private meetings with foreign governments and basically saying ignore what I'm saying because it's only political rhetoric ¦ I think it raises serious questions."

What don't blue collar Hillary supporters not understand about their "low-class fighter" candidate??

Update on the Mark Penn situation from MSNBC:

Penn just released this statement: "The meeting was an error in judgment that will not be repeated and I am sorry for it. The senator's well known opposition to this trade deal is clear and was not discussed."

*** UPDATE *** Change to Win, a federation of labor unions (like SEIU and the Teamsters), that has endorsed Obama, is calling for Hillary Clinton to fire her chief strategist, Mark Penn. "We have questioned Penn's role in the Clinton campaign in the past for his representation of union busting employers like Cintas," Change to Win executive director Greg Tarpinian said in a statement. "At that time, Penn said there was a wall between him and his firm's representation of union busters. The latest revelation that Penn -- whose firm represents the Colombian government in its effort to secure passage of a so-called free trade agreement -- is actively involved in securing its passage in the middle of Senator Clinton's presidential campaign is outrageous. It also suggests that he has been playing a double role - advising the Senator on what to say to curry Democratic voters and advising the Colombian government on what to say to curry a majority of votes in Congress."

Face it guys this is a dead on arrival story.

The MSM cannot afford to have this race end as yet.

For the first time in 5 years CNN is beating Fox in the prime time ratings war thanks to this horse race. CNN et al wll not do anything to torpedo Senator Clinton's bid.

That will leave the news cycle empty and too many reporters twiddling their fingers.

The Clintons have no compunction about their top campaign manager breaking bread, for piles of cash, with governments or corporations whose interests are at odds with those of U.S. policy. Doesn't anyone remember how Hillary Clinton's brothers--the Rodham boys-- used to cause migraines in the White House because they were always meeting with shady figures who handed them fat envelopes of cash in return for their lobbying Hillary and Bill for (often granted) pardons? And Bill Clinton himself has been jetting around the world, greasing billion dollar deals for foreign industrialists with foreign governments. To the Clintons, politics is a $50 million business, not a calling. The fact that papers such as the NY Times have largely given Hillary a free pass on the bulging sack of deeply troubling conflicts of interest which she and Bill haul around the globe is truly outrageous. Of course the Clintons, in true crazy paranoid whiny fashion, blame the media for their current expiring campaign--much as Nixon did.

Hillary and Obama both supported the extension of NAFTA to Peru just a couple of months ago. They are both low-life, anti-American worker liars, just like McCain, except McCain admits he supports NAFTA while Hillary and Obama support it in deed while opposing it in word.

It's amusing to watch Hillary attack Obama for being pro-NAFTA when she is pro-NAFTA. And it is amusing to watch Obama attack Hillary for being pro-NAFTA when he is pro-NAFTA.

But it's even more amusing to watch their partisans attack each other based upon their candidate being anti-NAFTA while claiming the candidate they oppose is pro-NAFTA, when both are pro-NAFTA. The lyingometer broke when measuring the partisans' reactions on NAFTA.

I remember when the Clintons ran on the "NAFTA platform." Ross Perot was against it. The Clintons and the Bush machine were for it. Al Gore did the "slap down" of the "funny little man" who stood up for your jobs. It was a pitiful sight to see Ross Perot treated in that fashion. If you want more of the same, Hillary will give the double talk to you. She has a hand in everyone's pocket. You know she's lying when her lips move.

Wow! Penn is a stupid ass. He couldn't have waited until after November to do this?

Here is what Hillary said in Ohio:

Here is what she said:

"If you come to Ohio and you go give speeches that are very critical of NAFTA¦ and then we find out that your chief economic adviser has gone to a foreign government and basically done the old wink-wink " "Don"t pay any attention, this is just political rhetoric" " I think that raises serious questions¦

"I would ask you to look at this story and substitute my name for Sen. Obama"s name and see what you would do with this story¦ Just ask yourself [what you would do] if some of my advisers had been having private meetings with foreign governments."

http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=998

In Obama's case it was an unpaid advisor, in Hillary's it is the guy who make more money than anyone else in her campaign and from all reports runs it.