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Clinton Criticizing Closure of Indiana Factory That Clinton Helped Close

Submitted by JeanLR on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 12:58pm.
Clinton Criticizing Closure of Indiana Factory That Clinton Helped Close
David Sirota Mon Apr 28, 5:04 PM ET
In my upcoming book, The Uprising, one of the threads tying together the disparate forms of populism on both the Right and Left is a sense of confused frustration at a political system whose politicians employ disinformation and propaganda to make basic economic issues indecipherable. This has been no more obvious than on the issue of trade and globalization in the presidential race -- and Hillary Clinton's latest television ad (which is also a standard part of her stump speech) shows exactly what I'm talking about.
Clinton is airing this advertisement in Indiana, bemoaning the closure of a defense contractor Magnequench's manufacturing plant in Valparaiso (she is also echoing this line in her stump speeches). Looking at the camera, she tells us she's upset that the 200 jobs that were sent to China, and that "now America's defense relies on Chinese spare parts." And then comes the kicker: She tells viewers that "George Bush could have stopped it, but he didn't."
Clinton is certainly right that it is a tragedy that 200 American jobs were killed in a corporate deal that also exported sensitive military technology to China. But she forgets to mention that it wasn't George Bush who was in the key position to stop it -- it was Bill Clinton. ... ... ...
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Clinton and McCain are good friends

Submitted by erinhughes on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 12:38am.
So no, of course shes not, shes worse...she voted to go into Iraq and if public opinion was in favor of Iraq still she would be too - I mean it doesnt take a genius to see that she takes stances on issues by looking at polls, as did her husband. Its like when Clinton shouted at Obama at a debate: "You came to congress saying you would never vote for the patriot act but you turned right around and voted for it!!" Truth is that Obama was not in the Senate in 2001 when the act passed. And the more devastating truth is that Clinton was in the Senate and she voted in favor of it herself!! Amazing (I'm not endorsing Obama here at all, he's just as much of a fruad as the rest)
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So what? They're friends - You have no friends across the aisle?

Submitted by Randy on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 8:35am.
You can complain that Clinton and McCain are friends and cast your vote based on that, or you can complain that Obama doesn't have the experience (if he HAD been in Senate in 2001, how would he have voted - we'll never know). Truth is, Tip O'Neill (poster boy for liberals) and Ronald Reagan (poster boy for conservatives) were friends and worked together. The real key is to decide the issues you feel are important and identify how each candidate will address those issues. Equally important is how the the candidate will respond to the unknown. In 2000, no one expected the World Trade Centers to disappear on 9/11/01. What will happen in 2009? No one knows for sure. How will Clinton, McCain or Obama react? My personal prediction is that this is the most important question of this election.
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