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'NAFTA briefing drop-by'

Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:14 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Mark Murray
With a hat tip to the Politico's Ben Smith, will this end up being the biggest news from the release of Clinton's White House schedules? The AP writes: "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."

Here's the entry from the schedule on November 10, 1993:
NAFTA BRIEFING DROP-BY
Room.450, OEOB
CLOSED PRESS
PARTICIPANTS: Approx. 120 expected to attend (See briefing book for further info]
FORMAT:
- Alexis Herman intros HRC for brief remarks
- HRC concludes program
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Oh SNAP!

Hillary is a NAFTA lover and a straight up liar!

She's not only TOAST but she's actually melting right in front of our eyes.

Hillary where the hell are your 2006 tax returns?
I have a problem with Hilliary Clinton challenging Obama to hold up the constitution for people to vote and it is a civil rights issue. Excuse me Hilliary, were you thinking about voters civil rights and the constitution when you signed the memo agreeing to not let the delegates in Michigan and Florida to be seated in the convention. This flip flop with the voters and Clinton is a problem. Hilliary's statements about her foreign policy experience has been debunked and the release of her white house papers as first lady also strengthens the aforementioned statement. She flipped-flop on the war on Iraq and the seating of the MI and FL delegates. Voters have said that they don't want a liar in the white house which is why they won't vote for Obama. Then why vote for Hilliary? First, Obama did not lie because the media has proven he was not present during the videos that show the inflammatory comments of his ex-pastor. I am not comprehending the logic of the voters that Obama lied. Voters are willing to forgive the lies of Hilliary and McCain who voted for the war that cost 4,000 Americans lives. Voters can forgive McCain for not knowing the people we are fighting in the war in Iraq as well as having the support of Rev. Hagee who stated inflammatory comments to women and people of color. Voters can forgive Hilliary for lying about her foriegn policy experience and the receiving money from felons who are either standing trial (peter paul) or serving time in jail. Yet, voters can't forgive Obama for comments he did not make, but his pastor did. Are you kidding me. Voters need a reality check.
Kevin, key phrase," Clinton staffers"..

Face it, she lied, and not her true experience will show!!!

Stop spewing your hateful comments about Obama,

YOU AND ONLY YOU, AND WELL MAYBE PATTY AND MIKE, ARE ACTING LIKE RACIST!!!

GROW UP, TYPE SOMETHING PERTINENT TO THE DISCUSSION, OR NOTHING AT ALL!!


Pertinent means relevant to the matter being considered!!!
Kevin, key phrase," Clinton staffers"..

Face it, she lied, and not her true experience will show!!!

Stop spewing your hateful comments about Obama,

YOU AND ONLY YOU, AND WELL MAYBE PATTY AND MIKE, ARE ACTING LIKE RACIST!!!

GROW UP, TYPE SOMETHING PERTINENT TO THE DISCUSSION, OR NOTHING AT ALL!!


Pertinent means relevant to the matter being considered!!!
FYI: look this website: http://www.obamatruth.org/
OBAMAS WIFE MICHELLE who received $200,000 raise on her salary RIGHT AFTER OBAMA WAS ELECTED A SENATOR SHE still dont feel proud to be an American inspite of all the good things that America blessed her family considering there are people and families in this country who are not as fortunate as them yet are very proud Americans.
She only felt proud to be an American during the midst of the DNC Primaries when things are getting better in her husband campaigns THE FIRST TIME IN HER ADULT LIFE
Obama is saying what we want to hear.  He and his associates have learned they cannot speak like Farrakan,Jackson,Wright so he is programed to say the right things just to get in the White House, then look out.  His history with all the wrong people plus Michelles slip when she said "her first time to be proud to be an American.  How many of these clues are we going to ignore?
Do you Obama guys get a secret de-code ring that you can use to read schedule entries.  Because I've read the entry and I saw nothing that looked like support  for anything.  She did drop by and, I guess, made some brief remarks...I supose she could have used the opportunity to say goodbye as well as argue the benefits of Nafta to all the participants in the trade agreement...but I don't have the de-coder ring so there is no way I could possibly know.

So what other neat stuff do you guys get?  
Joyce in PA,
    Are you saying Obama hasn't been scrutinized, especially lately?  Do you live under a rock?  Please just come clean about being a Republican blogger and be done with it.  
Dear Mox,
    What are you trying to say?  If you can't spell correctly (or maybe you think you are) please refrain from posting. You mock the intelligent people on this sight when you do.  Remember, if you are unable to sign your name correctly at the ballot booth, you can't vote.  
Looks like Hillary is finally starting to get vetted for real, not just because she said she's vetted. Ca'nt wait for April when those tax returns are'nt released.
I've supported both my husband and my boss on things that I did not totally agree with. It's what you do. It is respecting authority. He was the guy who had won the presidency and she was supporting him. I would expect former President Bill Clinton to do the same thing for her when she is president. On the other hand, when figures in authority, such as your PASTOR, engage in reprehensible behaviors, you GET OUT. HRC showed loyalty, BHO showed poor judgement. Actually, I really don't know why the guy stayed in that church. If he ever had any inkling of running for president, he should have known better. There are plenty of black churches where the pastors don't behave like that.
Hillary and Bill live in the "Alice in Wonderland World" up is down down is up and Hillary was not actively involved in NAFTA's passage.  Since its Easter week I suppose the easter bunny will be delivering eggs Saturday evening to all good Clinton supporters.  
Hillary and Bill live in the "Alice in Wonderland World" up is down down is up and Hillary was not actively involved in NAFTA's passage.  Since its Easter week I suppose the easter bunny will be delivering eggs Saturday evening to all good Clinton supporters.  
I love all the Clinton supporters comments.  Now they want Hillary to be less transparent because it hurts her.  I guess that 20 minutes spent with Bosnian diplomats was the turning point in the Balkans conflict. She has no one to blame but herself. You can not claim your experience came from your White House years and not expect to have them questioned. Oh, I forgot its the Clinton's they are above questioning. We need to take Hillary " Janus" Clinton at face value only I would like to know which face?  
I love all the Clinton supporters comments.  Now they want Hillary to be less transparent because it hurts her.  I guess that 20 minutes spent with Bosnian diplomats was the turning point in the Balkans conflict. She has no one to blame but herself. You can not claim your experience came from your White House years and not expect to have them questioned. Oh, I forgot its the Clinton's they are above questioning. We need to take Hillary " Janus" Clinton at face value only I would like to know which face?  
patty,sd,ca - your MENSA meeting has been cancelled.
He Paul in Riverside

We also have documented proof on Obama's NAFTA flip flop.  You can say the Clinton's did it all you want, but that does not make it any more true.  We also have document proof that Hillary:

Was vital to the passage of SCHIP (factcheck.org shot down the Obamabots on that one).

Was important to peace in Northern Ireland (From both the British and Irish side!)

Helped keep the border open for refugees in the Balkins (From the author of the Dayton Accords).

Look, you can wish that she did not have experience.  You can hope that she does not have experience.  However, the truth is there for everyone to see.

Here is some documentation for you.  

1. Statement from John Hume former MP MEP, founder of the SDLP and an architect of the Good Friday Agreement. He is the only person to win the Nobel Prize for Peace, the Ghandi Peace Award and the Martin Luther King Peace Prize.

“I am quite surprised that anyone would suggest that Hillary Clinton did not perform important foreign policy work as First Lady. I can state from firsthand experience that she played a positive role for over a decade in helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland.

2. Statement of Richard Holbrooke, architect of the Dayton Accords, and former permanent representative to the United Nations.

“It was dire in May 1999 when Hillary Clinton arrived in Macedonia. The government of Macedonia had slowed the flow of refugees from Kosovo to a trickle. After visiting refugees and gaining a first-hand assessment of the situation, the First Lady had intense talks with President Gligorov and Prime Minister Georgievski. In these talks, one in the Presidential Palace, another in the residence of the American Ambassador, Christopher Hill, Mrs. Clinton pressed the Macedonian government to fully open the border so that Kosovar Albanian refugees could flee the war zone to safety. She also committed herself to work with the government and people of Macedonia who also faced an emergency because of the threat to their own safety and stability. Hillary Clinton promised to take action to help the Macedonian economy. Returning to Washington, she pressed hard in the administration for action to support the Macedonians. She even contacted American business executives to ensure that American textile contracts in Macedonia were not canceled. There is no doubt in my mind, nor in the minds of those people I worked with in the Balkans at the time – that her intense efforts resulted in easing a crisis of significant dimensions and contributed to saving many lives.”

3. Here is some Obama experience

Today on MSNBC, top Obama foreign policy advisor Susan Rice was asked "The question is Barack Obama, what experience does Barack Obama have? To answer that 3:00 a.m. call." In response, Rice said "he has passed legislation on ethics reform which is crucial." Earlier this campaign, when Sen. Obama was asked about his foreign policy experience, he replied "You know, I majored in international relations." ["Good Morning America," 1/24/07]

4. Here is proof to counter the claim that Obama had nothing to do with NAFTA-gate in Canada and that it was Clinton who did it.

After being asked whether Canadian officials asked for - or received - any briefings from a Clinton campaign representative outlining her plans on NAFTA, a spokeswoman for the prime minister offered a response Friday.

"The answer is no, they did not," said Harper spokeswoman Sandra Buckler.

5. Here is proof of Obama's involvment (from the AP)

Goolsbee "was frank in saying that the primary campaign has been necessarily domestically focused, particularly in the Midwest, and that much of the rhetoric that may be perceived to be protectionist is more reflective of political maneuvering than policy," the memo's introduction said. "On NAFTA, Goolsbee suggested that Obama is less about fundamentally changing the agreement and more in favour of strengthening/clarifying language on labour mobility and environment and trying to establish these as more `core' principles of the agreement."

Every time someone like Paul insults the intelligence of a Clinton supporter, an undecided voter reading this blog gets to see it.  From that point of view, keep talking Paul!


Hey yu bama people instead of trying to tear hillary down why don't tell us all the things that will make the rest of us want to vote for your guy. I mean specific things that make him the right guy for the job.
Just go ahead and give Obama the nomination and the Presidency already so he can end up like AL, JFK, MLK, and RFK.
Hillary said she was ALWAYS against NAFTA. I would not expect Hillary's supporters to dislike her, but surely her lies and game switching comments don't sit well with them. Come on you guys, today Hillary said it was Senator's Obama's fault that the Florida and Michigan voter's are disenfranchised. We all remember she thought those states were not important enough to consider. Aren't we all intelligent enough to see Hillary's duplicity? Do we vote for her anyway?
How can people say that the media is giving Obama a free ride? They have been bashing him over his pastor, his middle name, the fact that he might be a terrorist, and how he might be muslim. How is that a free ride? I think Hilary is the one that's given a free ride here; what media criticism has she endured that her supporters so proudly claim? They turned their eyes to everything bad tat Clinton does. Please give me a break.
I challenge Chuck Todd to say ONE thing, just one, that is positive regarding Senator Clinton. There's media bias in favor of Sen. Clinton Chuck? Are you kidding me? That's a riot. You can hardly contain your smirking negative remarks on every MSNBC show. Would that be the bias in her favor you refer to?
Carl Bernstein has documented she fought Bill on NAFTA. Dropping by to help one's spouse doesn't mean she didn't fight him on it. He was the president, he won that battle. You can't have it both ways...on the one hand saying she shouldn't be a co-president and then on the other criticizing her because she gave input but wasn't the decision maker. PA should votge for Obama, supporter of Rev, Wright at its own peril.
And the controversy continues over whether Hillary Clinton, as she said again this week, had to duck sniper fire while arriving in Bosnia back in 1996.
The comedian Sinbad, who was with her on the USO tour three months after all fighting ceased and many miles away from where any fighting had gone on , has ridiculed the idea, but the Clinton camp has said he was just being funny.
Now, though, the Media Research Center has scanned the coverage at the time by reporters who were on the trip, and found no mention of any shooting.
The CBS report even showed her arriving in Bosnia smiling and walking alongside daughter Chelsea. Sen. Clinton had claimed there was no greeting ceremony and, "we just ran with our heads down."
But the network pictures showed her being greeted by the acting president of Bosnia and a group of Bosnian children.

1) The notes do say she spoke out in FAVOR of NAFTA,
2) MI and FL broke the rules that BOTH Clinton and Obama agreed to.  Obama, a man of his word, stuck by his word.  Clinton, not only did not stand by her word, she is also trying to blame Obama.

Who here has honor and integrity?  Be honest, Clinton supporters!
The civil fraud trial of Bill Clinton for defrauduing Hillary’s largest donor in 2000 into giving her campaign more than $1.2 million,  pending in Los Angeles courts  since 2003, is now preparing for a November, 2008 trial. The discovery that is now proceeding after a February 21 hearing, and the pending trial, have NEVER been announced by the mainstream media.
Hillary was able to extricate herself as a co-defendant in the case in January, 2008 after years of appeals  to be protected by  the First Amendment  from tort claims arising out of federal campaign solicitations she made. Her abuse of the intent of California’s anti-SLAPP law after the California Supreme Court refused to dismiss her from the case in 2004 is emblematic of her contempt for the Rule of Law.
Hillary will be called as a witness in both discovery and the trial according to the trial court Judge who so-advised Hillary’s attorney David Kendall when he dismissed Hillary as a co-defendant in 2007. A subpoena is being prepared this month and will be served personally on Hillary, along with Chelsea, Pa Gov. Ed Rendell, Al Gore and other well known political and media figures.
Yet the media has refused to report about this landmark civil fraud case- brought by Hillary’s biggest 2000 donor to her Senate race, regarding allegations that were corroborated by the Department of Justice in the criminal trial of Hillary’s finance director David Rosen in May, 2005. That indictment and trial was credited as resulting from the civil suit’s allegations by Peter Paul, the Hollywood dot com millionaire Bill Clinton convinced to donate more than $1.2 million (according to the DOJ prosecutors and the FBI) to Hillary’s Senate campaign as part of a post White House business deal with Bill.
The media - except for World Net Daily- has also suspiciously refused (consider all those who have crossed the Clintons and then mysteriously died) to report on Hillary’s last FEC report regarding her 2000 Senate campaign, filed in January 30, 2006. In a secret settlement of an FEC complaint by the plaintiff in Paul v Clinton, Peter Paul, the FEC fined Hillary’s campaign $35,000 for hiding more than $720,000 in donations from Paul, and it required Hillary’s campaign to file a 4th amended FEC report.
In that report Hillary and her campaign again hid Paul’s $1.2 million contribution to her campaign and falsely attributed $250,000 as being donated by Paul’s partner, Spider Man creator Stan Lee, who swore in a video taped deposition he never gave Hillary or her campaign any money.
Lee did testify to trading $100,000 checks with Paul to make it appear he gave $100,000 to Hillary’s campaign (admission of a felony) but none of that has been reported by the “overly critical” media!
Where is the outrage from Obama that the press is engaging in a double standard relating to his possible role in the Rezko trial and his refunding the $85,000 contributed to his campaign by Rezko- which Obama has always admitted taking. The media makes no mention of Hillary’s role as a witness in Bill’s fraud trial for defrauding Hillary’s largest donor- and Hillary’s refusal to refund the $1.2 million she illegally received from Paul, which she has denied taking from Paul ever since the Washington Post asked her about Paul and his felony convictions from the 1970’s before her first Senate election in 2000?
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Hello Pennsylvania ... are you listening?

In Ohio she said all this unemployment was due to NAFTA, and that she was always against it.  Now it turns out she was actively selling it.

More detailed reports have talked to women who were at this meeting, all of whom were SHOCKED that she was saying now that she was always against it.  According to those who were there this was a very hard sell by Ms. Clinton on how great NAFTA would be.

So Pennsylvania ... which lies will you believe?  Is she lying?   Are her lips moving?
Interesting that all Hillary's claims of being firmly against NAFTA from the beginning are refuted by all those who knew and worked with her at the time, by her own White House records, by her own "biographies" in which she never makes any mention of being against NAFTA, etc.

Also interesting that the Canadian Prime Minister spoke on all the national news channels in Canada (also carried all over Europe) denouncing Clinton for claiming that Obama had contacted his office regarding NAFTA.  The Prime Minister, after firing an aide for not quelsing the lie even earlier), told all the Canadian press (you can check this in ANY major Canadian Newspaper) that it was the Clinton camp and the Clinton camp ONLY that had contacted his office to assure Canada that the tough talk Hillary was making was "only talk".
 
Score another big ZERO for Clinton on foreign experience!


now look at hillary ,she started out as a lawer that was anti union, then she went to work on a board at walmart witch she was anti union, then when she was in the white house her then they sign in nafta. now she says she againt nafta.so whos the lair. check her back ground before you say anything. thanks
michigan revote what i heard was if you voted in jan. you cant vote if michgan has a revote in june . hillary aproves that so who is fare.
So when are we going to get Michelle Obama's calendar?  I bet we could find some dandy things in there!  On the NAFTA thing, I see nothing wrong with it. She was doing what her husband asked her to do. Have you not ever done something for your spouse that you might not have backed 100%?  Oh, though, Obama supporters, whooopppeeee, gotcha, found something...that will help take the spotlight off your hypocritical, lying candidate.
+++++++++++++++++

Simpleton,
Michelle has never been first lady (yet). Hmmm how about you focus on concealed revords of Watergate from your beloved ex first lady.  Just because you were married to a president, doesn't mean that you are qualified to be one.  Shaquille O'Neal's wife isn't an MVP because her husband was one.  You Sillary people are some bass achwards hateful individuals if I ever saw one...but then again look at who you are supporting.
Hillary before, and Hillary NAFTA.
If only this would have come out before Texas and Ohio. Hillary knows she has a problem here thats why she is trying to deflect attention from her making her tax returns  publics to trying to say to Obama where is your stuff. Sad

While Obama should issue his if she insist, it should only be done after she airs all of her info. She already took here sweet time dragging her feet so she could survive Ohio and Texas.

Well I believe she needs to be forth right this time before a big primary and let the voters decide if they like what they see. The votersin Ohio and Texas got duped plain and simple.
If only this would have come out before Texas and Ohio. Hillary knows she has a problem here thats why she is trying to deflect attention from her making her tax returns  publics to trying to say to Obama where is your stuff. Sad

While Obama should issue his if she insist, it should only be done after she airs all of her info. She already took here sweet time dragging her feet so she could survive Ohio and Texas.

Well I believe she needs to be forth right this time before a big primary and let the voters decide if they like what they see. The votersin Ohio and Texas got duped plain and simple.
Funny how Obama's problem is the things said by other people, while Hillary's problem is the things she herself said.

Will she now reject and denounce her former self?
WOW I can't believe this.  I heard about last night.  And it's just another....imagine that...for me...when it comes to Hillary.  
She said she had NOTHING to do with NAFTA!  Privately didn't agree with the policy.
When she ran for the NY senate she touted the jobs she would bring to NY because of NAFTA.  Her excuse now? Someone else didn't do their part, and give her a democratic senate and Presidency.  Gee, its the voters fault she didn't succeed at her job, and KEEP the promises she made as a NY Senator.  
When she ran for NY senate, she ran her opponent into the ground, b/c she had released her tax returns, and he hadn't!!!!  She kept talking on the campaign trail in NY..."what is he hiding that he won't release his tax returns, I have done so, I have NOTHING TO HIDE!"  gee...imagine that?  How Hillary can twist and turn...depending on where she's at...and what SHE is trying to hide!  Now, she refuses to let voters see her tax returns and Obama has done so.  But she won't address the issue!  And neither does the media... when voters have asked for her tax returns!  But..."SOOOOO???" As Cheney said yesterday...the voters... don't matter!
She downplays her part in anything bad...just that little NAFTA thing that took away all our jobs!  But that was the voters fault...not hers!  It's all about GENDER BIAS...pooor hillary!  
Why were things redacted?  Because it was probably the same names on the donor lists for their foundation, and bills libraby! Did we really expect that her schedule would be open and honest?  I certainly didn't!
She now says she left her name on the ballot in MI for all the VOTERS, b/c their votes need to count.  She didn't say that back before the elction in MI. It is so easy to check now on the Web.  She is lying....imagine that?  She said she "didn't want the Republicans to be the only people on the ballot, the votes won't count, the election means nothing."
wow...can you beleive she would change her speech now?  Can you believe she now blames Obama for MI and FLA votes not counting?  Ummm...these states broke the DNC rules, she signed a LEGAL DOCUMENT agreeing with it, as did Obama. He has said he will follow the rules of the DNC, and Hillary said the same thing at the time.  She didn't sign it, and then speak to the voters about how she wanted their votes to count.  She could've spoken out THEN and refused to sign the LEGAL DOCUMENT.  ahhh...but she didn't, she probably privately didn't agree with the policy!
"Ickie", her man in the campaign, AGREED and voted for the DNC to make these STATES not count, what is his twist on it now????  
Just more BS from the Clinton campaign...

Hillary's running for the most important job in the world and gets caught lying again.
No big deal, we're used to seeing it from her.

Considering her schedule records are so secretive, we might as well forget about her tax records, Clinton Library contributors, and First Lady phone records.

Hillary, as a First Lady, everything was paid for by American tax dollars. We have every right to know who you talked to and what you did.
Well, this does muddy the waters for Clinton if she is saying that NAFTA is totally bad.  It would be adviseable to see a whole cronology of statements made by Clinton when she was first lady and senator about NAFTA.  

I have to say that I think that NAFTA has been a mixed bag.  There are some industries that have been helped by this; some have been hurt by this.  I think that it has to be reworked no matter how many companies and industries it has helped.  There need to be new guide lines for worker rights, environmental responsibilties, and some protection factors from competion from countries that are outside the three.  
This is why America needs someone with a functioning brain to lead this country! Our choices now seem to be a man I am beginning to think is suffering from alzheimers (can't remember who are enemies are), a woman (who calls herself a democrat, but who campaigns and acts like a republican), and a very smart black man who has always opposed the war and NAFTA (being tarnished because his preacher criticized our government). Given these choices I'll take the very smart black man.
Gee Ohio, looks like you were lied too by a Clinton.

More misteries surrounding the Clintons.  WHERE IS BILL'S CFO?  The CFO of his library has been missing since 1/28/08, not to mention the questions surrounding the money donated to the library were heating up.  What is he #50 in the missing and/or misterious dead people involved in the Clintons during an investigation.

DO WE KNOW THE CLINTONS?

Where is his CFO?  Scary!
So when are we going to get Michelle Obama's calendar?  I bet we could find some dandy things in there!  On the NAFTA thing, I see nothing wrong with it. She was doing what her husband asked her to do. Have you not ever done something for your spouse that you might not have backed 100%?  Oh, though, Obama supporters, whooopppeeee, gotcha, found something...that will help take the spotlight off your hypocritical, lying candidate.
think (Sent Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:59 PM)

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her calendar includes meeting with Pastor wright, farrakhan & the black panters.


Patty,sd,ca (Sent Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:17 PM)

***Patty, I'm married, and I've done some things that my wife has asked me to do...but I'm not running for President and my Bill's past should come into light as he will be our first...lady. Bottom line: partison one-liners on every blog and blind arguments disguising a lack of understanding don't help your arguments(Patty,SD,CA)

OBAMA 08 - Real Change
Ohio helped Bush stay in the White House and then Ohio turned around and nominated a candidate that helped support a policy that has truly hurt its state economy.  Unbelievable!  "So goes Ohio, so goes the economy"  Superdelegates--This state is no measure of how to vote!

Obama 08
I am dumbfounded and pleased that Obama is so brave. He is what we need because he risk his nomination to tell the real deal, not a political response at all. I think we need him more than ever now that I see him being vetted...
Ohio was'nt duped. There was more than enough political flip-flopping on many issues, especially NAFTA, trampolined all around them by Senator Clinton. Anybody waiting for these schedules as "exhibit A" proving the duplicity of her campaign rhetoric were not present in the court of common
sense then; and this evidence is not likely to rescue
their logic from their rigid thinking now. Here's praying Pennsylvanians will face the facts, and VOTE WITH THEIR MINDS OPEN. Afterall, as working class people, we cannot afford to do otherwise.
Pulling for Obama '08
Please be fair as usual MSNBC unlike CNN, and get this story out there just you did when Obama fumbled.
America needs to know the truth about Hillary.
Now Ohio and Texas were Duped and hoodwinked.  When will they all wake up to the Clintons???? For someone who opposed NAFTA sounds like Sen Clinton had a mighty strong hand in it.
At the beginning of this whole race for the nomination, I thought that I would support which ever Democrat won the nomination. But now, months later, I have been so sickened by the dirty politics of Hillary Clinton that there is NO WAY that I would vote for her in November.
I think the only way she can get the nomination now is by stealing it. So far she has accomplished smearing Barack Obama so badly and dragging this out for so long it seems like it's not only Barack Obama and his supporters who are hurt, but the Democratic Party that is going to be hurt severely.
I've heard people say, "Well, in the end, we'll all come together as Democrats and support the nominee." NOT TRUE. I will NEVER support Hillary Clinton.

I would rather boycott the entire election and I'm sure I'm not the only Obama supporter who feels this way. I see no need to pretend we live in a real democracy if elections and nominations can be stolen.  

One thing I find very curious is the timing of this "leak" of the Rev. Wright clips. Who "leaked" them? These were words that this man spoke 7 years ago. I also find it curious that Hillary was suspiciously quiet during the whole thing. I believe that her campaign had something to do with the timing and the "leak" as part of her nasty "kitchen sink strategy".

That's my two cents.

Barack4Maine
So Bill Clinton had missile strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan then they struck back with 9/11.  This whole mess is a Bill Clinton blunder because he did something and did not do the job correctly.  Had Bill Clinton followed through with the job 9/11 may not have happened.  The whole Clinton thing makes things way to sneaky and scandalous.  Well good luck Pennsylvania will you be duped next like Ohio & Texas with NAFTA.  I give Sen Obama credit he stands up for what he believes and thinks when Sen Clinton hides behind lies, picks and chooses what she wants people to know.  Although Sen Clinton says she is transparent she is right smart people see right through her lies and trying to ride on the coat tails of Bill Clinton whom will run the White House if Sen Clinton becomes President.


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