...and cake, too
So yesterday in Ohio HRC told a crowd that they didn't have to take a "leap of faith" on her because they could "look at the record."
Leaving aside the fact that the whole spouse-as-experience thing is a bit of a stretch (I hope to hell that the surgeons wielding scalpels in my local hospitals didn't get their jobs on the strength of their spouses' job performance), and the fact that HRC has only four years' Senate experience more and three years' total legislative experience less than BO, what happened to the "record" on NAFTA? Suddenly her biographers' memory that she was secretly against it all along has become more salient than her frequent on-the-record support of it at least through her 2003 memoir, in which she called it one of "Bill's victories."
In 2003 it was "Bill's victory" and today it was "negotiated" by GHWB's administration and "pushed through Congress." Help me out, HRC; which record am I supposed to be looking at again?
Leaving aside the fact that the whole spouse-as-experience thing is a bit of a stretch (I hope to hell that the surgeons wielding scalpels in my local hospitals didn't get their jobs on the strength of their spouses' job performance), and the fact that HRC has only four years' Senate experience more and three years' total legislative experience less than BO, what happened to the "record" on NAFTA? Suddenly her biographers' memory that she was secretly against it all along has become more salient than her frequent on-the-record support of it at least through her 2003 memoir, in which she called it one of "Bill's victories."
In 2003 it was "Bill's victory" and today it was "negotiated" by GHWB's administration and "pushed through Congress." Help me out, HRC; which record am I supposed to be looking at again?
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In all fairness I think she's made a credible case that she's telling the truth about her feelings about NAFTA now, and she was lying for political expediency back then. As opposed to, you know, the other way around.
February 24, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink