Is the GOP Really the Party of Free Trade?
Obama is highly intelligent, highly trained -- and he knows full well that the nation as a whole benefits from free trade, even if substantial minorities are harmed by it.
Obama is highly intelligent, highly trained -- and he knows full well that the nation as a whole benefits from free trade, even if substantial minorities are harmed by it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
An article from Fortune Magazine, entitled "Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all," captures the Democratic candidate walking back his previously stated p...
Jim Goldgeier and Derek Chollet | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Free trade, democracy promotion, and use of force comprised the core of Clinton's foreign policy -- and Obama falls squarely within this tradition. Yet these positions will be even harder for him to maintain.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business
For the past 15 years, anyone who opposed a so-called "free trade agreement" was labeled a protectionist. And that was the end of the story. The TRADE Act allows us to present an alternative.
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
A bit of a veer off topic on the Obama conference call to press Clinton to drop Mark Penn. Teamsters President James Hoffa, asked about Austan Goolsb...
David Sirota | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
The person running a major American presidential campaign is simultaneously on the payroll of a foreign government pushing a bill that the next president would have to confront.
RJ Eskow | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
The Clinton campaign is pressing on with arguments for her nomination that are not only illogical, but are likely to cause further lasting harm to the Party's prospects in November.
ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
I have now talked to three former Clinton Administration officials whom I trust who tell me that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton opposed the idea of i...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
*** NEW UPDATES BELOW *** Yesterday, with the release of Sen. Clinton's schedule as the former first lady, ABC reported: One interesting event in Se...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
The threshold Clinton crossed was to all but endorse the Republican presidential nominee, if the Democratic nominee should turn out to be Barack Obama.
Globe and Mail | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton never gave Canada any secret assurances about the future of NAFTA such as those allegedly offered by B...
David Sirota | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
Hillary has made the entire NAFTA debate about an uncorroborated report from the right-wing Canadian government designed to embarrass Obama. Even more incredibly, the media followed right along.
Lecia Shorter | Posted 03.05.2008 | Home
Why then did Senator Clinton, an attorney with so much "experience," resort to using statements, the veracity of which are highly questionable, and amount to double hearsay to boot?
Politico | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
For four days after a news report alleged that Sen. Barack Obama's economic adviser had told Canadian officials to ignore the Democrat's tough talk on...
Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: Canada's parliament took up the issue of Obama's position on NAFTA today, with Liberal leaders angrily accusing conservative Prime Minister St...
Scott Paul | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Congress and the administration have the power to stop China's cheating and unfair trade practices, but so far, they have sat on their hands. What would a President Obama or a President Clinton do?
Derek Shearer | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Democrats are in danger of repeating history unless they think strategically about the international economy and frame the issue of trade in a progressive context.
CTV | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and Clinton campaigns dominated the U.S. political landscape on Thursday. On Wednesday, CTV report...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
It's probably unfair to expect the Senator to understand US history. But couldn't he just lift his ideological blinders to take a side glance at the world we're in?
ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Responding to a Canadian Television report that an aide to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, had reached out to the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. to re...
David Sirota | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Is Obama genuine in his opposition to NAFTA? Or as a Canadian news report claims, is it all just campaign rhetoric?
New York Sun | Josh Gerstein | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Canada and Mexico are rebuking the top Democratic presidential candidates, senators Clinton and Obama, for vowing to renegotiate the North American Fr...
David Sirota | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
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.
David Sirota | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
I've been troubled by some of Obama's votes on trade, and I've made no bones about that. But his rhetoric on NAFTA in his victory speech tonight was encouraging.
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William Bernstein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics