Clinton Colombia Ties Don't Stop With Former Chief Strategist

[catgirl]

Source: The Huffington Post

Mark Penn isn't the only Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter on the wrong side of the Colombia trade agreement.

The Democratic-leaning advocacy firm the Glover Park Group, former home to Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson, signed a $40,000 per month contract with the government of Colombia in April of 2007 to promote the very agreement that Clinton now rails against on the presidential campaign trail.

That means Glover Park Group was arguing the same position on the free trade agreement as has Penn, the contentious Clinton strategist and Burson-Marsteller chief executive who lost his campaign job over the weekend after The Wall Street Journal revealed that he'd met with Colombian officials to plot strategy on the pact.

Several other Glover Park employees have deep connections with the Clintons, including founding partner Joe Lockhart, who served as the White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, and Joel Johnson, who was a senior communications adviser in the Clinton White House.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/07/clinton-colombia-ties-don_n_95525.html

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This trail is getting interesting.

[babylonsister]

1. Oh, man. This is getting downright disgusting, and is making me even

angrier. She rails against an agreement her cohorts actively pursued/are pursuing? No mas! This sucks! Not to mention it's unethical to the nth.

[catgirl]

2. I'm sure she'll claim ignorance.

[Wwagsthedog]

3. Claim?

[Earth_First]

4. Yea, claim it on her 2008 income taxes...

zing!

[Diane R]

9. Sleep deprivation. Yep....she'll claim sleep deprivation.

[superkia]

12. If she keeps claiming ignorance as an excuse, why would we...

want her to run the country? I guess when the system is so corrupt, the powerful dont understand not getting what they want?

[Amonester]

16. if Sigmund would still be with us....

maybe he would call it "the bu$h $yndrome" (everything he says is the exact opposite of what's real)

[johnnydrama]

5. my question is...

Didn't the Colombian President rap Obama for not being for the free trade agreement?

Did Penn or Wolfson have anything to do with him doing that?

[babylonsister]

8. Why yes he did; good question.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue52/article3055.html

Uribe’s Attack on Obama
The Far Right’s Spokesman in Latin America Is Worried About What Could Be Long Overdue Changes in US Policy

By Al Giordano
Special to The Narco News Bulletin

April 3, 2008

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe revealed his worry about the US presidential contest this week to the Bogotá daily El Tiempo: “I deplore that Senator Obama, aspiring to be president of the US, ignores Colombia’s efforts.”

more...

[catgirl]

21. Why haven't investigative reporters pounced on this before?

From the article (linked above):

That Uribe singled-out Obama is revealing: the Illinois senator’s rival for the Democratic nomination for president in the United States, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, also says she opposes the US-Colombia “free trade” pact. That clearly doesn’t worry Uribe: the Clinton organization has a long history of backing – politically and economically – the Colombian far right, its narco-politicians and paramilitary death squads, of whom Uribe is supreme leader. In 2000, then-US president Bill Clinton went on Colombian national TV to announce “Plan Colombia,” the multi-billion dollar US military intervention that keeps Uribe and his repressive regime in power to this day.

[papau]

15. Clinton was against the Columbian agreement before Obama - but you'd not know that from DU posts

[natrat]

6. can one of the clinton bots explain this to me? i dont get it

[Zachstar]

7. Interesting.

Clinton has some explaining to do.

[Yavin4]

10. Hillary Has No Real Principles Except Personal Ambition

She will support anything that helps her political career at the moment. That's why she voted for the IWR, and it's why she supports Free Trade once in power and rails against it on the campaign trail.

[David Zephyr]

13. Yavin4, how rotten is this apple?

It's a very rotten apple. I hope the good people in Pennsylvania are opening their eyes and won't be fooled as the voters in Ohio were.

[cliffordu]

11. Any Questions?

:puke:

[Andy823]

14. Do you think that maybe this

Long list of deception from Hillary and her advisers will finally get some of her supporters to open their eyes, or will the keep on defending the double talk coming from someone who wants to make "change" for the better in this country? The only "change" I can see with Hillary will be a "new" set of crooks running this country with the same kind of "corporate" plan that Bush has given us!:spank:

[mcollier]

17. Stop! Alert!!!

If you can't see the greed envolved with this story, then your already dead....

[junior college]

18. I used to think that Hillary was a standard business Democrat

until I started listening to her campaign speeches. Now she strikes me as somewhat of an asshole.

[ima_sinnic]

19. disgusting! Now I'm starting to hate that woman with every fiber of my being

I will no longer excuse Hillary supporters as simply "misguided." Now I consider them as moronic, pathetically stupid, and criminally complicit as Bush supporters. There is nothing, NOTHING that can justify support of death squads.

[CANDO]

20. This is why I hate the DLC Democrats!

Billy Boy did it to us with NAFTA and who would expect anything different from Hillary? We need a clean break from these corporate whores....no offense to sex workers. Vote for Obama.

[Life Long Dem]

22. Hillary is connected with a union buster, therefore she is part of the war on the middle class.

There is no place for a union buster in the Democratic party. John Edwards - where are you? Obama where are you?