VIDEO: Clinton Thinks NAFTA Is Hilarious

In the video above, you will find a very short clip I put together after tonight's Democratic presidential debate. Please forward the link on to as many folks as you can. Regardless of which candidate you support, you will likely find this video truly stunning. This was by far the most insulting comment of the evening - and likely the one that will come back and haunt Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

Really, what an offensive statement Clinton made to the millions of American and Mexican workers who lost their jobs and saw their wages destroyed thanks to NAFTA - a deal pushed by the Clinton administration (for some more data on NAFTA, see this report from the Economic Policy Institute). You want to talk about showing how utterly out of touch you are, that's how you do it - you laugh and say you barely remember the debate over the very trade deal that is destroying America's middle class. And then after you stop laughing, you go to the Senate floor to vote to expand NAFTA, as Clinton says she's going to in the next few weeks.

Comments

[CajunCountry]

Bravo!

Forwarded to my whole address book.

'The US is on a path to economic Armageddon. Shorn of industry, dependent on offshored manufactured goods and services, and deprived of the dollar as reserve currency, the US will become a third world country.'
Greenspan and the Economy of Greed
As the Empire Slips
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09202007.html

[FracasFutile]

Hey Dave, congratulations on getting the rights for "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who. I'm been trying for years to clear the rights to put it in a production of mine. How did you do it?

[klondiker]

David, I appreciate your effort, but I think you're over-reacting and mis-interpreting.

First of all, it wasn't just Hillary who laughed; the entire audience laughed. And the laughs had nothing to do with NAFTA, but with Wolf Blitzer's ridiculous question, "Was Ross Perot right?"

Blitzer asked her a specific question about the Gore-Perot debate, pointedly asking if Perot was right. Her coy, silly answer about charts was meant to diffuse that question. She understandably did not want to be seen criticizing Al Gore.

If she had said, "Yes, Ross Perot was right," no doubt someone would have made a YouTube video titled "Hillary attacks Gore."

And, she did say, "NAFTA was a mistake to the extent that it failed to realize the goal" or something like that.

I think you would be much better off criticizing her for something more substantive (for instance, her answer on Iran, which was VERY troubling to me.)

[Robert Naiman - Huffpost Blogger]

nice rapid response!