LEFT Presses Clinton To CHOOSE SIDES On Obama Trade Pact

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3. She won't. She supports it.

people close to her keep saying that. I have no reason to doubt them and every reason to believe it. Her big banker funders strongly support it. I imagine her campaign has reassured them that she supports it but can't speak in support of it now. Clinton will continue to equivocate and give mealy mouthed non-answers- when she addresses it at all. As the head of her campaign, Podesta said, "can't you just make it go away". In addition, organizations very closely tied to her like Podesta's Americans for Progress (home to her economic advisers) and Brookings, strongly support it. You have to be a completely gullible sucker to think she doesn't support it.

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Asked about Clinton’s TPP position at a recent Bloomberg News conference, Jim Bacchus, former Democratic congressman from Florida, said he is “sure Hillary will get to all of these things and I think she has a good sense to be for trade as part of her overall approach to America’s economic future.”

Later at the same conference, Bob Hormats, who served as Clinton’s under secretary of state, said he could not speak on behalf of Clinton, but emphasized that his former boss “understands very clearly that there are enormous trade opportunities in Asia and creating jobs.”

Hormats now serves as vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm founded by Henry Kissinger that advises multinational corporations on trade issues.

In Congress, Bacchus was a lead negotiator for NAFTA and later served as chief judge of the World Trade Organization. Bacchus, who now works on trade issues as the Global Practice Chair of the lobbying firm Greenberg Traurig, said he was the first of Florida’s congressional delegation to endorse Bill Clinton’s bid for the presidency, a supporter for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and a strong supporter of her current presidential campaign.

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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/24/tpp-proponents-close-hillary-clinton-remain-optimistic-will-support-controversial-trade-agreements/