Frankly, I find Penn's meeting w/Colombian officials less disturbing than Goolsbee's meeting w/Canadian officials. Goolsbee conversation was interpreted as meaning that Obama didn't mean what he was saying in public. Penn/B-M meeting w/Colombians was a "how's it going" touch-base w/ a client who has multiple issues in play, including lately how to counter Congressional opposition to the treaty(potentially including HRC). One was a "here's what he says, here's what he means" discussion, other was a "how can my company help you". Penn is in the wrong for having the conflict of interests, but nothing suggests HRC is saying one thing, and doing another on the issue of the treaty.

Are we all comfortable with Mr. Obama's assertions that he "lost" all of his records from his time in the Illinois state legislature? Sheesh....I'd love for those babies to turn up. Although the Obamaites would deny that people froze to death on the streets of Chicago because of his "advocacy" to the poor. Wake up! Obama is an empty suit and a liar. Factcheck.org makes it clear that his lies are both more frequent and severe than Senator Clinton's .

jj - What makes you think OBAMA will not make as much money as Clintons make? Infact the last 2 years Obama made more money than what the Clintons made before comming to White house.

Pennsylvania-

You have a chance to end this now!

Hillary Clinton acts like she's above the rest of us and doesn't have to be held accountable for all her poor judgements.

1. Never apologized for sending our troops into war wrecklessly. Now thousands are dead and her excuse is "if I knew then, what I know now."

2. Hillary has never accepted responsibility for all the jobs lost because of NAFTA. She lied about her support and lobbying for it and purposely blocked opposition to it!

3. And now Hillary is claiming she knew nothing about Penn and Colombia. She has a twenty year old relationship with Penn...she must have know what he was up to, and still she doesn't fire him.

4. The Clintons have made 100s of thousands of dollars from outsourcing jobs.

5. The Clintons have entered into shady dealings with middle eastern governments...why shouldn't we believe they would have one with Colombia.

PENNSYLVANIA, YOU NEED TO GET THIS RIGHT!

TO PUT HILLARY CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD BE A GROSS INJUSTICE.

YOU CANNOT ALLOW THE CLINTONS TO KEEP THUMBING THEIR NOSE AT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

It is different in many ways

1 NAFTA is all ready in effect

2 Penn wants to have C.t.d..Hill camp says she against it ..But she has known Penn for Many Years and reportedly asked him is their going to be anything that could be used against me.

3 She hired him on and gave him Advisor position

4 She really didnt out and out fire him she just had him change seats

The problem I believe lies in she was not vocal when Bill signed NAFTA.
by vocal I MEAN WENT TO THE MEDIA

This just shows how dumb and uninformed Americans are. The news won't cover it, but the NAFTA issue has already been exposed as a saboteur in the Canadian Government trying to help the Clintons. If Hoffa and the Teamsters could read they would know this already. The issue has been beat to death and is no doubt being brought back up because staunch Hillary supporters are looking at the MARK PENN issue and saying "But, but, but,b b b b but Obama had that Canadian thing! So what about that?"

PATHETIC and SAD

ROB - Pathetic and sad? Yep, that just about sums up Obama on the NAFTA issue alright. Couldn't have said it any better myself.

TRANSPARANCY - NAFTA, Wright, Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Ayers, and Obama. Now there's change you can believe in, Wright?

.....and while we are revisiting this story about the unpaid advisor let's look again at Hillary's original stand on NAFTA. Don't you people realize that she supported it? SHE JUST KEEPS THE LIES GOING ON AND ON. It's embarrassing.

Both the Canadian government and Goolsbee agree that the conversation was not as depicted. The paper acknowledged that it got the tip from a Clinton insider. This was part of the ohio/texas kitchen sink strategy, that is all. The Clinton strategy is simple, if you can't be as good as your opponent, make them look as bad as possible. the truth is optional.

the president of the powerful Teamsters union disputed Sen. Hillary Clinton's, D-N.Y., assertion that both Democratic presidential campaigns had rogue advisers on the issue of free trade but that her campaign dealt with the issue more effectively than Sen. Barack Obama's did.

More effectively really he is still on the Payroll and still a family friend.

But the former president is a different type of adviser; one with even more influence than Penn, and one who cannot be pushed out of the campaign. In a hypothetical Clinton administration, his voice would likely hold large sway in policy debates. As such, it is important to note that his ties to the Colombia trade agreement have on several occasions put him at odds with his wife's stated positions.

LOuis
What paper was that?

April - BTW, What IS NAFTA, April? What does it do? What are its obligations? Which of the three countries is the clear winner? Or do you have any idea what you're even talking about? Well?

The real Question here should be what does the AFL_CIO think and feel about this?
Where is their response?

Obama is a snake in the grass. Watch out or you will be bitten!

Obama is a liar period. He's just another politician, that claims to be the new kind of politics. He's not new nor the messiah of hope. Obama is playing the same old dirty tricks to deceive the voters, just like everyone else. Hillary lies but so does Obama, which bothers me more that he comes preaching all the crap about a clean platform and change, but the truth of the matter is that he's far from it.

Every day I read what others have to say, and I am always amazed by the hate and the insults that come from people that do not personally know the people they speak of. In regards to Hillary, why must people punish her for not opposong the war? It's like being in a marriage and your husband says that you two should do something, and it ends up being a wrong decision, is she not human? Was she wrong for supporting our so called president? Why must people punish her for others mistakes including her husbands, had she not stood by him, every one would still have some thing to say. Why attack her daughter, she was their to answer questions about her mother, maybe she could have responded different, but the fact still remains that it was her family crisis, not ours. Sure he was the president and some say it was our business, but why not stop putting these politicians on a pedestal and realize that they are human and no better or worse than you and I. I support Hillary for many reasons, just wish that we could stop all the judging and realize it is not racism just with blacks like Obama says, racism is every where towards Latino's, blacks, women,etc. Change comes within, not from someone that says or thinks he can change it. I am latina and face many challenges in my life, and it makes me sad that people do not realize what is really wrong here. Hope every one puts personal feelings to the side, and realize that our world is in trouble, and it is us the real world people that knows this better than any one.

I'm thinking that Teamster members would rather hear DIRECTLY from Mr. Hoffa that he's satisfied that this issue has been addressed to the TEAMSTERS satisfaction.

We already know that TEAMOBAMA is satisfied with their existing response - they just want the issue to go away.

Teamster members may not be satisfied though with a campaign issued statement. They'd probably like to hear directly from Mr. Hoffa.

I'm thinking that Teamster members would rather hear DIRECTLY from Mr. Hoffa that he's satisfied that this issue has been addressed to the TEAMSTERS satisfaction.

We already know that TEAMOBAMA is satisfied with their existing response - they just want the issue to go away.

Teamster members may not be satisfied though with a campaign issued statement. They'd probably like to hear directly from Mr. Hoffa.

Change we can believe in.
Housing crisis because of preditory loans we need to change them?Maggie Williams