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Hillary Claims She "Spoke Out Against" NAFTA Starting in 1992
March 31, 2008 7:59 AM
Campaigning in Indiana on Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, claimed to have been a 16-year vocal opponent of NAFTA.
"I spoke out against it starting in 1992 -- the president made a different decision," Clinton said. "I think now with 14 years of experience under our belt, we can see that in some parts of our country there have been, perhaps, some economic advantages, but in other parts of our country, like where we are right here in northwest Indiana, it hasn't worked as it was promised, and therefore I think we need to renegotiate it."
Given that Clinton was the headline attraction at a pro-NAFTA meeting in November 1993 and was praising NAFTA in public throughout the 90s, the claim seemed interesting. When was she "speaking out" against it?
Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson says that Clinton argued against supporting NAFTA internally on the 1992 campaign before then-Gov. Bill Clinton decided to support it.
Would you consider that to be "speaking out against it"?
- jpt
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ITS 2024 DELEGATES MR. SMARTGUY! If your going to educate you must know what your talking about.
Posted by: know what | Mar 31, 2008 10:48:15 AM
jim: The answer is no! You know that if Hillary were seen as trying to push a black man out of the race, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be in the streets complaing! Gov. Wilder on CNN said that if the Superdelegates gave it to Hillary even if she had the popular vote there would be rioting in the streets worse than 1968. Sounds like a threat to me!
Posted by: russell | Mar 31, 2008 10:47:08 AM
If you have to go back over a year to find a meaningless uplifting story about Obama lying. I would think it would have to do with something more meaningful say like lying to congress, or lying about your foreign knowledge. Call me crazy but Lying about what color cookie you took and lying about taking the cookie is two diffrent things.
Posted by: happy | Mar 31, 2008 10:45:51 AM
The Commander Guy: Now what do you think about Obama's lie about his racial awakening! He said that when he was 9yrs old his mother took him to a library in Indonesia where she took him to live,and there one day he said that he saw an articel in Life magazine about a little black boy who had disfigured himself with chemicals in order to lighten his skin. He said that when he looked at the picture his face got red and hot and he felt the heat of those chemical just like it had happend to him! Well that is a great story but there is one problem it never happened. When confronted with the fact that Life had never run such a story he told the Chicago Tribune that it was in Ebony,again no such story by them. So you see he needed a good story to explain his so called racia awakening so he just made one up! If your read more of his book "Dreams From My Father" you will find more of his lies, so don't take my word take his!
The Washington Post had a story this weekend about how he and the Kennedy's were responsibe for his father comming to America is a lie too!
Posted by: russell | Mar 31, 2008 10:38:11 AM
"Jesus like" is that your way of making your dumb logic make sense to you? If any1 says any person is "Jesus like" is a idiot. People are talking about his pastor, talk about him and not some media story say something factual. Hillary's lies and deception is factnot assumption. But like evrything else people like you are not smart enough to know when your being duped.let me guess you voted for bush, and the war is going great too ha? lmao
Posted by: roger | Mar 31, 2008 10:34:05 AM
Hillary in 2007: NAFTA we HAFTA ... we HAFTA have NAFTA.
Hillary in 2008: Shame. Shame on you NAFTA. Shame on you. Meet me in PA, NAFTA and we'll have a debate about you and the bad things you do, NAFTA. Shame.
Hillary in 2009: NAFTA we HAFTA ... we HAFTA have NAFTA.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Mar 31, 2008 10:32:53 AM
I'm guessing the Jesse Jackson comment is a black thing? Why not bring up romney or huckabee. Jesse Jackson is a terrible example. Thats like comparing Jesse Jackson to Ralph Nader. I mean they both had the same amount of popular voters. The same idiots that are saying to pick the best candidate are only voting for hillary because of her husband not. Is 1st ladie a requirement for president because thats all hillary was: A 1ST LADY!
Posted by: sarah | Mar 31, 2008 10:29:42 AM
Roger: If Obama is Jesus like you guys say why has he not been able to win the required number of delegates to be declared the nominee. I don't think that the spread of less than 200 delegates and having less than 1% lead in popular vote (excluding FL and MI)is what I would call a blowout! Given all his superiority in Money outspending her 3to1 and 4to1 in TX and Oh she still won, the same will be true in PA. The truth is that to win Mr. Obama won't be able to do it on his own he will still need to use affrimative action to get across the finish line! What does that say about how strong he is!
Posted by: russell | Mar 31, 2008 10:27:30 AM
It is refreshing to see the Hillary Fans saying that it's OK to Lie. And not only that, they imply skill at lying makes one a better politician.
But at the same time the HillFans can't be happy about Hillary going one Bosnian Bridge Too Far. And they can't be too happy that Ol'Hills has been exposed as supporting NAFTA in the odd numbered years while being starkly against NAFTA in the even numbered years.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Mar 31, 2008 10:26:39 AM
ITS NOT ABOUT CHEATING ON YOUR WIFE .ITS ABOUT BEING IMPEACHED FOR LYING.OMG!! The writing is on the wall..no matter what hillary has done the point is she is LOSING and can not win mathmatically.
Posted by: tom | Mar 31, 2008 10:21:26 AM
Tony: No one ever tried to force Jesse Jackson out! Like Jesse says it ain't over till it's over, then it ain't over! So saddle up!
Posted by: russell | Mar 31, 2008 10:21:10 AM
OMG!!!!! Did everone forget Bill Clinton was impeached for lying? Exactly what Hillary did on the Bosnia story. lie until you get caught then lie somemore. What can Hillary do that her husband didnt? And if Hillary is the best candidate why is she losing in every stat? If you truely vote for the best candidate, it has to be a new family. The previous 2 families have not done anything. HELLOOOOO PEOPLE!
Posted by: roger | Mar 31, 2008 10:18:38 AM
HOW PATHETIC! If Hillary was winnning in the popular vote and delegates and states she would be asking Obama to step out too. Entitlement is whats going on here. She realizes shes going to lose so she starts the political games instead of saying the obvious. Obama is "suppose" to win regardless of the rest of states. Mathmatically impossible. GET OVER THAT!!!!!
Posted by: tony | Mar 31, 2008 10:14:58 AM
firefighter: I heard that!
Posted by: russell | Mar 31, 2008 10:14:48 AM
I think if everyone put aside their self righteousness and voted for the best candidate they would vote for Hillary. The biggest issue facing the country besides the war is the economy. There is no argument that Hillary knows policy, she is tough and will do what it takes to make the country prosperous for everyone. Also, stop blaming Hillary for Bill's infidelity. How many women out there have been cheated on? Are you responsible for letting it happen? How many men can say they NEVER cheated? Get off the soap box and lets get this country back to something we can be proud of!
Posted by: Firefighter | Mar 31, 2008 10:11:52 AM
Hillary is a frraud. She cares about herself.Would she be saying all that nonsense about letting everyone vote..How pathetic, the only way to win is to do a G.W. Bush. STEAL IT! She is losing in delegates and states and popular vote need I say more.
Posted by: anthony | Mar 31, 2008 10:09:19 AM
John wrote: "hillary is a liar"
John:
So is Obama and so is McCain
get over it.
Posted by: LB | Mar 31, 2008 10:08:31 AM
SoSad: Obama tells the people of Ohio that he would scrap NAFTA then tells the Canadians that he was just saying it to get elected! I know Obama doesn't lie no thats to common for him what he does is use "verbal camouflage"! Now doesn't that sound much better!
Posted by: russell | Mar 31, 2008 10:03:06 AM
NAFTA
Hillary wasn't against NAFTA, it's fully known. If she was and didn't speak out with conviction, than she was a yesman!
Economics
Secondly, she can't pay off her campaign debt in a timely manner...How in the or why in the world would we want her to tackle our Economy.
Foreign Policy
She flat out lied...No other way of saying it! She wanted to boast her experience and she flat out and made a Blatant Lie. Even my kids figured that out! My son in the heat of excitement during a school activity said "sc*** Y**" and tried to get out of it by telling the teacher he said something different. Then he said he mispoke The pricipal called me and told me he was getting detention because he lied. I said yep you did and your punishment fair.
Posted by: BigBusiness | Mar 31, 2008 10:02:58 AM
The Commander Guty: Sounds like John Kerry?
Posted by: russell | Mar 31, 2008 9:57:41 AM
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