In response to Barack Obama's attack on NAFTA, the Hillary Clinton campaign has gone into meltdown mode. Here's Dow Jones' Marketwatch:
"Clinton's campaign fired back at Obama, charging the Illinois senator with misrepresenting Clinton's position on trade...'Recently [Obama] falsely claimed that Hillary said that NAFTA was a 'boon' to the economy. Now, Obama is resting his argument on a single paraphrase from an article written twelve years ago,' Clinton's campaign said in an emailed statement."
The Huffington Post has followed along with a laugh-out-loud piece in which the chief architects of NAFTA (many who are now wealthy corporate lawyers and lobbyists) are now saying, no, no, Hillary Clinton was really opposed to it. These are the same people, of course, who are looking for jobs in the Hillary Clinton White House.
What a total joke, really. This campaign clearly thinks we are all just a bunch of fools.
Hillary Clinton has made statements unequivocally trumpeting NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread. The Buffalo News reports that back in 1998, Clinton attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and thanked praised corporations for mounting "a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA." Yes, you read that right: She traveled to Davos to thank corporate interests for their campaign ramming NAFTA through Congress.
On November 1, 1996, United Press International reported that on a trip to Brownsville, Texas, Clinton "touted the president's support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it would reap widespread benefits in the region."
The Associated Press followed up the next day noting that Hillary Clinton touted the fact that "the president would continue to support economic growth in South Texas through initiatives such as the North American Free Trade Agreement."
In her memoir, Clinton wrote, "Senator Dole was genuinely interested in health care reform but wanted to run for president in 1996. He couldn't hand incumbent Bill Clinton any more legislative victories, particularly after Bill's successes on the budget, the Brady bill and NAFTA."
Yes, we are all expected to just forget that, so that Hillary Clinton's campaign can manufacture supposed "outrage" that anyone would say she supported NAFTA - all at a time her chief strategist, Mark Penn, simultaneously heads a firm that is right now pushing to expand NAFTA into South America.
What a total insult to America's intelligence.
If Hillary and Bill are going to salvage any shred of a legacy at this point, they need to ramp down the campaign with dignity, sever their ties with 20th-centu
Go Obama 08'
"The economic recovery plan stands first and foremost as a testament to both good ideas and political courage. National service. The Brady Bill. Family Leave. NAFTA." -- HRC, 2002
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"I think, on balance, NAFTA has been good for New York and America." -- HRC, 2004
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The Newsday article with the "boon" statement was written in September 2006, not 12 years ago.
This is a slo mo exonomic train wreck in the making. Let's put the brakes on these trade deals and get the manufactur
I am hoping that Obama actually follows through on rebuilding America although I am a bit skeptical given some of his backers. His questionin
Can't Hillary make new crap up as she goes along too?
*snif*,... *followed up by the shedding on one, dramatic, poingant tear*
she's just being creative with the truth.
Now ordinarily I'd accept that she can have a policy difference with Bill on NAFTA---bu
As for elective experience
I would like to add one other point: We have some 250 million people in this country why is it that only a Bush or a Clinton should be president?
Barack is well-verse
These long years of experience in both DC and Illinois informed his answers in this 52-minute, uncut interview with the editorial board of the SF Chronicle that was very illuminati
Get informed and then go vote for Obama! The only choice if we want to win a governing majority in November!
This fact is not shocking.
What is shocking is the way so many HILARYFANS ignore this fact.
Apparently they want another four years of Bush.
When a Clinton says a speech is not important you know the end is near.
Thanks for the post!