Comments on: Obama’s free trade instincts http://www.tradediversion.net/archives/2007/05/obamas-free-trade-instincts.html Commentary on development, globalization, and trade by Jonathan Dingel Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: DRR http://www.tradediversion.net/archives/2007/05/obamas-free-trade-instincts.html/comment-page-1#comment-173 DRR Wed, 16 May 2007 22:23:00 +0000 http://www.tradediversion.net/?p=493#comment-173 There was a story recently shedding some light on Sen. Clinton's political strategy vis a vis trade issues where, to avoid the connection drawn between the much derided NAFTA & her husband & subsequently her, she is making a point of pinning NAFTA on the Bush I administration, claiming they were the ones who constructed it. Sen. Clinton has had a relatively pro-liberalization trade record in the Senate, but that she would even engage in such a weasely strategy purely for political reasons, ensures I won't be voting for her, and I wasn't planning on it anyway. Sen. Obama voted in favor of the, quite unpopular in Democratic circles, U.S.-Oman FTA. That takes some balls. There was a story recently shedding some light on Sen. Clinton’s political strategy vis a vis trade issues where, to avoid the connection drawn between the much derided NAFTA & her husband & subsequently her, she is making a point of pinning NAFTA on the Bush I administration, claiming they were the ones who constructed it.

Sen. Clinton has had a relatively pro-liberalization trade record in the Senate, but that she would even engage in such a weasely strategy purely for political reasons, ensures I won’t be voting for her, and I wasn’t planning on it anyway.

Sen. Obama voted in favor of the, quite unpopular in Democratic circles, U.S.-Oman FTA. That takes some balls.

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