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(Updated with link) Hillary and NAFTA

by anujtron, Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:23:10 PM EST

So it looks like Hillary wasn't being so honest when she said she never really supported NAFTA. Heres an outtake of whats on political wire

This from the AP: "She was also involved in helping her husband win congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal she now criticizes and says she would try to change."

No wonder why she waited until after Ohio to release these documents. Just reinforces my feeling that shes a lying, SOB. She went after Obama when he's been consistent on the issue even before he got into the senate. And for those of you who choose not to remember the call to Canadian embassy was from the Clinton camp, not the Obama Camp.

Update : Forgot to post the link so here it is http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/5633274.html

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Re: Hillary and NAFTA (none / 0)

Link? This sounds like nothing more than someone's interpretation of her schedule.

by americanincanada on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:25:28 PM EST

Re: Hillary and NAFTA (none / 0)

Link

Her schedule for Nov. 10, 1993, shows her speaking at a NAFTA briefing closed to the media, with 120 people expected to attend.

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by thezzyzx on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:27:43 PM EST
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Re: Hillary and NAFTA (none / 0)

Then anything more than just that line from her schedule is an interpretation. Nothing more. It was a briefing.

by americanincanada on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:30:40 PM EST
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That raises a legitimate question (none / 0)

She needs to respond.

However, it's easy to imagine scenarios where her appearance at the briefing does not signal full-throated support for NAFTA. Just as an example: perhaps she gave a presentation on some of the changes her husband had managed to negotiate with Canada and Mexico. She could speak at length about how such changes improved the deal without ever having to compliment the overall deal.

That's all speculation, but saying she went in there and told those 120 folks that NAFTA was better than sliced bread is speculation, too. Fact is we don't know.

by Trickster on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:29:44 PM EST
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Re: Hillary and NAFTA (1.00 / 1)

sorry here it is

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/p olitics/5633274.html

by anujtron on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:28:16 PM EST

Meh, It's Been Confirmed... (none / 0)

...that she had reservations on NAFTA and made some challenges to it, mostly behind closed doors. That said, she was the First Lady, and it's a policy the administration was pursuing. I don't hold against her that she gave it some public support at the time. That doesn't mean she didn't have objections to it.

by TooFolkGR on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:31:05 PM EST

Re: Meh, It's Been Confirmed... (2.00 / 0)

That sounds like she was against it but didn't do anything to stop it (and in fact, publicly supported it). Yet I'm supposed to give her the benefit of the doubt when so many people here absolutely savage Obama for basically doing the same thing with Wright.

by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:36:28 PM EST
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Re: Meh, It's Been Confirmed... (none / 0)

The meeting in question was a behind-closed-doors affair in preparation for the NAFTA vote where it appears she delivered the closing remarks. It's quite a stretch to assume she was delivering a challenge to NAFTA.

by Piuma on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:43:17 PM EST
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That Would Be Quite a Stretch (none / 0)

That's probably why I didn't say or imply anything like that. What I mean is that members of Bill's administration have come forward and said she expressed reservations about NAFTA at the time "behind closed doors." Not during this meeting mentioned in her schedule. As you say that would be pretty ridiculous.

by TooFolkGR on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:53:09 PM EST
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Re: (Updated with link) Hillary and NAFTA (none / 0)

I guess we should start digging in about Goolsbee again if we are now looking at her appointment log. Is it any wonder the Clintons don't want to release anything when twits like this abound.

by coolofthenight on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:45:11 PM EST

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Who freaking cares? Everyone acknowledges that at the beginning they hoped NAFTA would work, and it has in some ways. But we have now seen that it needs to be reworked to be a better trade agreement. I don't get all the anti-NAFTA/trade agreement stuff. Are we supposed to work toward isolationism again? That doesn't seem very progressive.

by JustJennifer on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:46:11 PM EST

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::yawn:: maybe he asked her to help.

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by owl06 on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 04:50:48 PM EST

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Wait! You mean Hillary and the old line democratic leadership favor corporations over workers and the middle class? I thought Hillary was a progressive. But she's still more progressive than Obama, right?

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by obsessed on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:02:10 PM EST

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I really don't think the Obama camp wants to bring up NAFTA again.

99% perspiration

by DaveOinSF on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:06:35 PM EST

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Okay ... sorry ... she had "objections" ... that's the important thing. I'm thankful that she probably also had objections to raising my health insurance from $60/month to $600/month. I sleep better know that Hillary objects ... renounces ... denounces the destruction of the middle class on her watch.

Don't worry though ... her "plan" is better this time (wink wink).

McCain housing policy shaped by lobbyist.

by obsessed on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:07:20 PM EST

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1993. Fifteen years ago.

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by RJEvans on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:08:07 PM EST

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