“Rocky” Clinton swings at NAFTA
Likening herself to famous fictional character Rocky Balboa, Clinton started spinning stories again (Yahoo/AP link);
Addressing a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Tuesday, the former first lady and New York senator said that she, like Rocky, wasn’t a quitter.
Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Clinton said that ending her presidential campaign now would be as if “Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum steps and said, ‘Well, I guess that’s about far enough.'”
“Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people,” Clinton said.
I’m sure this’ll get the old photo-shoppers working away – please don’t email me your creations, OK? The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire comments;
What Clinton didn’t say—and what every movie buff already knows—is that Rocky lost in the end. Another kicker: Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone has endorsed expected Republican nominee Sen. John McCain.
She couldn’t help but start lying again;
She promised the labor group that as president, she would create 3 million new jobs through investments in public infrastructure like roads and bridges.
Clinton also told the audience that as first lady she had forcefully battled NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, even as her husband was aggressively pushing for its passage through Congress. The agreement is widely unpopular with organized labor because it helped clear the way for many blue collar jobs to be moved to Mexico and other countries with cheaper labor costs.
“I did speak out and oppose NAFTA,” she said. “I raised a big yellow flag and said ‘I don’t think this will work.”
Well, we all know what she truly thinks about NAFTA, it’s just campaign rhetoric since she’s already told the Canadians precisely that. The Toronto Star also dug into her autobiography to see what she really thought about NAFTA;
In My Life, Hillary Clinton is revealed as opposing NAFTA in just one particular: Promoting its legislative passage in 1993 would expend so much political capital that there would be little left for her own health-care reform initiative.
So, along with everything else, her opposition to NAFTA was personal.
Trying to perpetuate the myth that she was part of her husband’s administration she told the labor goons (emphasis mine);
“I was in many meetings starting in the ’92 campaign — I raised questions,” she said. “I did it in the White House again, in meetings with as many different audiences in the White House in the decision-making process that I could speak to. But the president made a decision. As part of an administration, I believe you support the president, and I did.“
What was her title and when was she confirmed by Congress?
But, I’d like to know how she plans on creating 3 million jobs. It’s the capitalists that do that not presidents.
