In a matter of 24 hours the Clintons both made complete asses of themselves in Pennsylvania and Indiana. It's not hard when the basic premise of your campaign is a lie. After all a First Lady is not more experienced than someone who was in the State Senate and their actual Senate experience is close enough to be negligible at best.
Think of it this way, if Nancy Reagan or Laura Bush went from being first ladies and got into the Senate, served just over a single term and decided to run for President, would they be qualified? If you make the argument that Hillary was more involved in her husband's presidency than they were in theirs, why does her schedule as First Lady not indicate such? It seems she was given the Healthcare issue to handle and after she dropped the ball she presumed the role of a regular First Lady.
One thing she did do as First Lady though was support NAFTA. These free trade agreements have hurt America greatly in outsourcing good jobs, strengthening the economies of other countries (see the growth of China and India among others) and weakening our own economic stability.
Bush took the Clinton's theme of free trade and put it on steroids by expanding free trade to any place that would sign a pact. In the meanwhile millions of good paying factory and production jobs disappeared. However Bush kept artificially inflating the unemployment numbers by saying tons of jobs were created while refusing to indicate that most of these jobs were seasonal, through temp agencies, or just low end jobs. Workers who worked at a factory and made $20+ an hour were now working 2-3 jobs at $6-8 an hour. Of course that made it appear like three jobs were filled rather than one. And of course nobody counts the depressed who stop claiming unemployment or have stopped looking for work because of the weak market.
So when Mark Penn, Clinton's PR guy with a mostly Republican tied firm, decided to go and talk to Columbia about a free trade agreement... even though his candidate is losing and primed to lose the Democratic Nomination it of course caused a little uproar in Pennsylvania where they have been hit hard by such free trade agreements (well not too much uproar after all the Clintons convinced the media to become Obama attack dogs and they largely have been off the hook for some time).
He resigned from his position (although still receives the boatloads of money the idiot Clintons are paying him) but the scandal shouldn't go away so quickly. Sure, the Clintons would have you believe that this was independent of the campaign but of course as is the case with everything in her Rovian Campaign, dig a little and you get better answers...
Like GAFFE #1.
Clinton laughs off Colombia questions
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) – Hillary Clinton used her trademark laugh Thursday to deflect a question about the $800,000 her husband earned in 2005 giving speeches for a Bogota-based group that supports the Colombia free trade agreement — the same trade deal she currently opposes.
Asked by CNN if those earnings represented a conflict of interest given that she has dipped into her family's pocketbook to pay campaign bills, Clinton threw up her hands and laughed loudly for several seconds.
"How many angels dance on the head of the pin?," she responded, continuing to giggle. "I have really, uh, nothing to … I mean, how do you answer that?"
The New York senator explained there are different sides to the argument over trade, and re-emphasized her own opposition to the trade deal, assailing the Colombian government's "outrageous" record of "targeting labor leaders."
"I am against the Colombia free trade deal," she said. "It doesn't matter who talks to me. It doesn't matter any circumstances. I have been against it. I am against it. I will be against it absent the kind of changes in behavior that I have been calling for from the Colombian government."
Earlier in the press conference, describing her husband's advocacy for the trade deal, Clinton said: "Everyone is free to express their opinion."
I'll add this to provide more of that "Ready from Day One" leadership that means you're not ready to answer tough questions from day one:
So that brings us to the other Clinton gaffe of the day. Bill Clinton comes off as less and less Presidential now that he's campaigning so negatively for Hillary. The Bill we see these days is an angry, belligerent old man who is afraid that the status quo that he now embraces but once fought against, will lose out of his wife isn't in charge of it.
That's truly a shame.
In Bill's quest to regain power (at least for his wife) he has pretty much killed any credibility to his silly claim that he was the first "black president". After all a Black President wouldn't invoke Jesse Jackson as an insult to downplay a black candidate's chances.
And a black president wouldn't say this about a black candidate. GAFFE #2:
"Next, We'll See Him Run an Ad Saying: Vote For Me, I Don't Steal Cars."
Here's the video so you can see for youself:
Even if it was in response to an anti-oil company ad Obama ran it is in ridiculously poor taste.
Of course a black president would also be smart enough not to sign a Republican Welfare Reform Bill that attacked the poor for needing assistance at the same time as corporate welfare and corporate overseas tax shelters are okay.
But yet Bill Clinton had no problem with that either.
I guess he's a rich white old guy after all. And a foolish one at that.
-Rp
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