Reply #17: With regards to foreign policy matters, you're right... [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

But I'll take a "wait and see" approach on economic matters. What he proposes in the other thread you started doesn't really say a whole lot of specifics to me. And I say this as someone quite active on this issue, I have volunteered plenty of time as an organizer and also in lobbying US Reps on it. Not to mention the amount of stuff I've read on "globalization" and "free trade".

What Clark is doing is really little more than responding to the concerns of critics of the current system. While I won't say that it is worth nothing, I'm also hedging myself by waiting to see if he comes out with concrete proposals to reform the current system, because it is in need of a MAJOR overhaul. The proposals he's given so far are highly general, and don't really say HOW we can address these problems.

Will he be his own man on this issue? Will he have the political courage (and perhaps more important, political CAPITAL) to do something bold on it? Or will he defer to the wishes of Wall Street and speculative finance, much in the way that Bill Clinton did in listening to Robert Rubin?

Only time will tell....