HRC was critical of TPP before it was cool

[Jim Lane]

33. This is, frankly, more bullshit from you.

You want to pretend she didn't call TPP "the gold standard" because a poster happened to cite Bloomberg? I challenged you on that point in this post last Tuesday, to which you never responded. An excerpt:

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)?

If you do the same Google search and skim the results, you'll see that the "gold standard" quotation has also been reported by NPR, CNN, the Washington Post, and numerous other sources.

BUT if you discount all those sources as "right wing", how about Clinton's own State Department site? Go to "Remarks at Techport Australia" on the State Department website, giving the text of Secretary Clinton's remarks at Adelaide, South Australia on November 15, 2012, and you will find the quotation.

As for how Clinton was supposedly out front in opposing TPP (even though she still hasn't said she actually opposes it), you might take note of this letter that Bernie Sanders sent in 2011 -- while Clinton was still hailing TPP. That particular Sanders letter addresses the specific issue of access to medicines, but it's an exemplar of how progressive politicians and many NGOs have been voicing their concerns long before Clinton's tepid statement that a trade agreement should promote American jobs.