Clinton forcefully disavows Obama's trade deal
Source: Politico
Hillary Clinton on Thursday forcefully rejected the notion that she will support the Trans-Pacific Partnership if shes elected in November, telling a blue-collar crowd in Michigan that I oppose it now, Ill oppose it after the election, and Ill oppose it as president.
Donald Trump has accused Clinton of lying about her opposition to the 12-nation trade pact, which President Barack Obama has aggressively pushed. Following a POLITICO report last month in which Clinton ally and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe suggested Clinton would come around to a modified version of the deal, Trump called Clinton a liar and said her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, is one of the deals top supporters.
In an economic address Thursday in Warren, Michigan, the Democratic presidential nominee partially agreed with Trumps views on trade, acknowledging that too often past trade deals have been sold to the American people with rosy scenarios that did not pan out, but pushed back on the notion that she would ever support TPP.
Communities in Michigan, she said, have lost factories and jobs due to hollow promises about how past trade deals would help American workers. Too many companies lobbied for trade deals so they could sell products abroad, but then they instead moved abroad and sold back into the United States, she said. It is also true that China and other countries have gamed the system for too long. Enforcement particularly during the Bush administration has been too lax. Investments at home that would make us more competitive have been completely blocked in Congress, and American workers and communities have paid the price.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-reject-obama-trade-226920
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)opposing TPP.
See you November 9th.
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)TheProgressive
(1,656 posts)The republican controlled Congress will put this up for a vote after the elections. Our 'democratic' president Obama plans to sign the TPP. This now, conveniently, is out of Clinton's hand. And once signed into 'law' it would take an act of Congress and the president to sign a law ending the TPP.
Some of us knew/know that the TPP is an establishment oligarchy bill designed to screw America and Americans.
Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)I am not even against the TPP, even though I would like more info. But this scenario is how things are done and I expect it to play out like this.
Also look for increased aggression against ISIS, ISIL, DASH, whatever so the dirty work won't be on the watch of the new Commander In Chief.
Angel Martin
(942 posts)that's how they passed NAFTA
former9thward
(32,028 posts)NAFTA was signed into law by Clinton on December 8, 1993, almost a year after he took office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)It's the one thing I've gotten wrong about this whole campaign. I thought she'd own it as part of her supporting Obama narrative.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)She has an election to win. Whatever it takes.