1.0 link 52064 <![CDATA[Attention All Candidates: On Trade, Ignore the Editorials, Just Keep Listening to the People]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-paul/attention-all-candidates-_b_52064.html What happened after Sen. Hillary Clinton announced in Detroit on Saturday that she would oppose the proposed US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, based on her careful analysis of the deal? Why, swift condemnation from the mainstream media editorial pages, of course.

This is one of the oldest pieces of political theater in Washington.

There were howls of protest when Sen. Barak Obama opposed the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2005.

And when former Sen. John Edwards criticized outsourcing...

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