I am, not surprised; but, somewhat dismayed with ...

[Jim Lane]

168. You could give the unedited quotation, you could give others, but instead you sling mud

First, the quotation in which she called TPP "the gold standard" is not from her book. It's been very widely reported. (I just did a Google search for "Clinton TPP 'gold standard'" and got more than 300,000 hits.) Did she say it, or didn't she? And while we're on the subject, I could provide links (if I thought you would actually look at them) to other pro-TPP statements she's made. Are all of those quotations actually hoaxes by the evil corporate media (which are, presumably, part of a vast right-wing conspiracy promoting the candidacy of that longtime corporate darling, Bernie Sanders)?

As for the quotation from her book, if it was unfairly edited to give a false impression, please feel free to provide the full quotation. The point for which I cited that quotation was that, in writing her memoir, she didn't treat the TPP as something done solely by the USTR, about which the Secretary of State knew nothing except what she read in the newspaper each morning. Instead, she implied that she played a significant role in it while she was Secretary of State, which is hardly a surprising assertion. If she has in fact disclaimed any such involvement, I'd be interested in the evidence.

This part is truly funny:

It's odd that Warren supports her if HRC is a TPP proponent, don't you think?

Ludicrous assertions embedded in that one short sentence:
1. By signing a letter urging Clinton to run, Warren indicated "support" in the most common understanding of the term, i.e., that she endorses Clinton for the nomination and is already committing that she will vote for Clinton in the primary.
2. If Warren "supports" Clinton, that means that Warren agrees with each and every issue position that Clinton currently takes.
3. If Clinton as candidate currently takes a position that's less than wholehearted support for the TPP, then that proves that she's always taken that position and disproves any assertion that she once spoke favorably about it.