Cutler hid his work in preparing the daily economic briefings during the Clinton years by making himself visibile in “market-based solutions” for the health care this time out.

However, he’s running as if he isn’t an ambitious politician who would ever do a hit job.

Pretty funny…

When I said, you must stay focused on the greater danger….

How is focusing on Nader, when Bush is the enemy (and he is) the proper use of one’s time and effort?

Isn’t this like Bush going into Iraq when he had Bin Laden targetted in Afghanistan? He took his focus off Bin Laden in Afghanistan, and jumped towards Iraq, put all his cards there, and look what it got us, Iraq the quagmire, Afghanistan the forgotten war.

Just a thought.

I said Obama actually supported NAFTA at one point because I was given materials that said he did have a support of NAFTA. His camp denies that he ever said this, so I double checked, and dropped it, and admitted here that I was mistaken. He did support expansion to Peru and other areas are in question, but the facts do matter. And the fact is, Bill Clinton didn’t originate this policy, he wasn’t the “Champion of NAFTA” as someone on another blog coined him. And the history shows many many Democrats sided with them.

In 1992 I voted for Ross Perot, simply because of NAFTA and the idea that he would understand the economics of America. I admit that was not my best candidate, but he was the only one of 3 candidate who dared challenge this package. He has been vindicated by history on this position.

I consider him a wingnut now, and really didn’t personally like him then. But because he told it like it was about NAFTA, I was on board.

What are we debating?
Obama is engaged in the debate on NAFTA by bringing it up. He has placed a good portion of that responsibility at the feet of his opponent improperly, and should be held to account.

Posted by D. Cupples (photo from Senate.gov ) | Lately, Barack Obama has been attacking Hillary Clinton for her alleged support of NAFTA, the trade agreement that ended up reducing blue-collar jobs in our nation. FactCheck.org indeed finds a mailer tha…

I just read this on the Wes Clark blog, but it is almost a universal belief if you google NAFTA:
“do they clearly understand that Bill Clinton originated the NAFTA anti-democracy policy”

This is patently false and part of why we cannot have an honest discussion about who is responsible. George Herbert Walker Bush signed a NAFTA treaty with Mexico and Canada on December 17, 1992, just more than a month before Bill Clinton was inaugurated. So, if you want to Bash Clinton for continuing this, fine, fair game. But you should also add all the Democrats who signed on, including all the house members who signed:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1993/roll575.xml

and all the democrat senators:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00395

I voted for Ross Perot that year explicitly because of the NAFTA agreement, so I won’t tolerate a lecture from either party about NAFTA, but don’t distort the record. NAFTA was the evolution of two trade deals that were forged in the Reagan and Bush Years. It evolved from the “North American Accord” and a trade deal we established with Canada.

I have a loyalty to accurate history over pundits and politicians. If you distort our past, then you cannot predict our future.

Among the Democrats that we don’t hear Obama criticizing are his buddy Dick Durbin who is his colleague, Carol Mosley Braun and Paul Simon who are former senators of Illinois, and countless others who thought this was the right thing to do. No, it is politically convenient to add to the well coddled RightWing attack on Hillary Clinton and others to prop oneself up as Morally Superior. How can you, or he be morally superior if you distort the record for your own political gain.

I have so many criticisms of Bill Clinton, I could weigh this blog down for months, but I cannot tolerate the distortion of history by revisionists of myopic hatred who pick and choose to fit their paradigm.

READ THIS, then retort:
http://www.fina-nafi.org/eng/integ/chronologie.asp?langue=eng&menu=integ#alena

That is rich coming from the Senator.

Now I’m not much for Mr. Naders timing of late, but to say that he is dummy is bizarre.

I was hitchhiking as kid and got out to see across the freeway a Covair burning up…Nader was one of the first people to call for auto saftey and for getting that car off the road permenantly. errr.