Robert Reich: Hillary did not oppose NAFTA in 1993, but opposed its timing

[Adelante]

Hillary and Barack, Afta Nafta

Was Hillary Clinton really against NAFTA in 1993? I was in the administration then, and I remember her position quite precisely.

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The answer is HRC didn't want the Administration to move forward with NAFTA, but not because she was opposed to NAFTA as a policy. She opposed NAFTA because of its timing. She wanted her health-care plan to be voted on first. She feared that the fight over NAFTA would use up so much of the White House's political capital that there wouldn't be enough left when it came to pushing for health care. In retrospect, she was probably right.

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/02/hillary-and-barack-afta-nafta.html

[papau]

1. So Robert Reich says Hillary knows how to get things changed better than he does - interesting

[krkaufman]

4. Yes. She sure got her health care program done.

In.

[Bad Thoughts]

2. Reich doesn't really clarify anything

Like many of us have speculated after Gergen's comments, Clinton may have been indifferent to NAFTA at the time. Regardless of whether she was opposed, indifferent, or supportive, this is another case of when Clinton was not involved in the administration's decisions, making her claims of participation seem weaker.

[femrap]

3. Reich who started selling the US

to China....what a great patriot and person to listen to