Clinton Gets Caught Again On NAFTA
by: David Sirota
Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 17:19

Barack Obama is today criticizing Hillary Clinton on her efforts to pretend she never supported NAFTA. Just as a follow-up to my post on Friday, I want to remind folks who claim Hillary Clinton never praised NAFTA that, in fact, she did praise NAFTA - repeatedly.
According to NBC's Meet the Press, in 2004, Clinton said, "I think, on balance, NAFTA has been good for New York and America."

In her memoir, Clinton trumpeted her husband's "successes on the budget, the Brady bill and NAFTA."

And in 1998, Bloomberg News reports that she praised corporations for mounting "a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA." Another direct quote.

I went over two of these three quotes - and some more - in my recent syndicated column, which you can read here. And, as predicted, this issue has now become the central focus in the Ohio primary - the primary that could decide the Democratic nomination.

However you feel about NAFTA - and if you are a typical American, polls show you likely do not like it - Clinton now trying to lie and say she never really supported NAFTA is an absolute insult. It further suggests that on really important economic issues, she's more than happy to lie about provable facts when it suits her political needs.

UPDATE: Here's another direct quote from Hillary Clinton on NAFTA. The Associated Press reported on 3/6/96 that she said, "NAFTA is proving its worth" and later praising NAFTA as "a free and fair trade agreement."

UPDATE II: Here's another direct quote from Hillary Clinton on NAFTA from a speech she gave to the DLC in 2002:


"We all know the record of the DLC, the Progressive Policy Institute and, of course, the Clinton-Gore Administration. The economic recovery plan stands first and foremost as a testament to both good ideas and political courage. National service. The Brady Bill. Family Leave. NAFTA. Investment in science and technology. New markets. Charter schools. The Earned Income Tax Credit. The welfare to work partnership. The COPS program. The SAFER program. All of these came out of some very fundamental ideas about what would work. The results speak for themselves. Those ideas were converted into policies programs that literally changed millions of lives and, I argue, changed America."
Yes, that's right. NAFTA is cited by Clinton as a shining example of successful "ideas [that] were converted into policies programs that literally changed millions of lives and, I argue, changed America."

Well anyone that has the hillary hard on should know all of this that is part of there problem they think like she does. It was and is a good thing. It scary to think that , that many people think that way in America.

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NAFTA is one of the biggest mistakes of the Clinton presidency. But of course Bush just kept pushing it along when he took office so IMO there's no difference in the Dems and Pubs on this issue.

NAFTA...

Mrs. Clinton was for it before she was against it.

Maybe.

Depends on which way the wind blows.