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In reply to the discussion: Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run? [View all]MFrohike
(1,980 posts)For ease of understanding and layout, I'll use bullet points:
1. The Clinton quotation from 2005 clearly shows her disinterest in dealing with the problem of outsourcing. You can wave the magic wand flag all day long about the constraints on a president, but that's a smokescreen when you're dealing with a potential president who is not interested in the problem, magic wand or not. That is the point you clearly didn't understand or you wouldn't have posted a meaning graph in lieu of an actual answer.
2. I suggest you read your source material and not what some nerd posted on Wikipedia. In the Free Trade section from the link you provided, On The Issues has a serious problem with their material. They claim that she was both for and against NAFTA. It's probably a typo, I hope, but it doesn't inspire much confidence.
3. From your own source again, her record on trade is at best mixed. She talks a lot about tougher worker protections, but she voted for every free trade treaty except CAFTA. She did that while complaining about how weakly they protected American workers. She voted to establish normal trade relations with Vietnam and was supportive of the same with China. This is not a populist stance on trade, though it's not an unabashed free trader either.