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RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
11. Why yes, she has.
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:53 PM
Mar 2015
"One of our most important tools for engaging with Vietnam was a proposed new trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would link markets throughout Asia and the Americas, lowering trade barriers while raising standards on labor, the environment, and intellectual property," Clinton wrote in her 2014 memoir "Hard Choices."

As secretary of state, Clinton also talked up the benefits of the TPP and during a trip to Korea in 2011, she advocated for "as few barriers to trade and investment as possible."

When asked for Clinton's current position on free trade and the TPP, a spokesman pointed CNN to what the former secretary of state wrote in her book.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/14/politics/hillary-clinton-trade/



*And I believe Bernie Sanders would wipe THE FLOOR with her in a debate on this. From ^ same article~

"It was very clear to me that any agreement that forces American workers to compete against desperate, desperate people who are working for pennies an hour is grotesquely unfair," Sanders said, recalling the 1990s when he traveled to Mexico to see the working and living conditions of workers producing goods sold in the U.S.


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Well then if NAFTA was a mistake, then the TPP is one global fuckup. Rex Mar 2015 #1
For TPP, it's supposed to be kept super-secret for four years AFTER IT GOES INTO EFFECT. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #7
That is just creepier than hell! Rex Mar 2015 #12
Please stop repeating that falsehood. joshcryer Mar 2015 #20
tell it to the nyt. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #21
Yes, the final draft will be public. joshcryer Mar 2015 #25
Hasn't she touted the TPP's awesomeness already? MannyGoldstein Mar 2015 #2
Why yes, she has. RiverLover Mar 2015 #11
This is why I don't think she'll run for President MannyGoldstein Mar 2015 #13
Sanders says it all right there. RedCappedBandit Mar 2015 #22
Good. marym625 Mar 2015 #3
it would be pointless for her to oppose TPP Enrique Mar 2015 #4
No there would be a good point to it. Rex Mar 2015 #5
"if they are hers as well" Enrique Mar 2015 #6
I was right there with ya when BP destroyed the Gulf Coast. Rex Mar 2015 #9
She voted against CAFTA with a real live Senate vote. Bluenorthwest Mar 2015 #8
Yes people don't know that George Bush Sr. was the originator of NAFTA. Rex Mar 2015 #10
Regarding the blame, this may be why: Karmadillo Mar 2015 #15
True, and Reagan started talking about the damn thing even when he was in office. 1987 I think. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2015 #18
Actually it was John Negroponte - at least he bragged about being the author. 2banon Mar 2015 #24
John Negroponte Boasted of being the Author/Crafter of NAFTA.. 2banon Mar 2015 #23
On TPP, Obama = Hillary Clinton. blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #14
they are practically clones of each other except for the 2 obvious differences nt msongs Mar 2015 #16
She needs to do the right thing, & proclaim the TPP to be fatally flawed. Faryn Balyncd Mar 2015 #17
It seems an easy call to speak out against this. It would speak volumes if Karmadillo Mar 2015 #19
She helped architect the TPP when she was SOS. And she spoke in favor of it. djean111 Mar 2015 #26
kick woo me with science Mar 2015 #27
kick woo me with science Mar 2015 #28
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