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here's a statement hillary is making in her indiana stump speech blaming bush for NOT vetoing the sale of a business that the state lost jobs to. she continued to make this claim again today!


Today, however, McClatchy reported that the sale was approved by the Clinton administration. McClatchy quoted several Indiana residents griping about the Clinton administration's role in letting these jobs get away. It's the sort of tale that could have resonance among struggling working class voters in the state.

But the Hillary campaign responds that the sale was approved by the Clinton administration "on the condition that the production and the technology to produce neo-magnets would stay in the U.S."

The Hillary camp also argues that the investors behind the deal backed out of that promise in 2003, after Bill left office, and that President Bush didn't enforce the deal -- their point being that while it's true that the Clinton administration approved the deal, it's not responsible for the job loss that ensued.

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ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception
By David Sirota

On Monday, I wrote about Hillary Clinton airing an ad decrying the closure of a defense manufacturing factory that her husband, Bill Clinton, helped close by approving the sale of the company to a Chinese state-owned firm. Now, ABC News is running with the story, and uncovers some more ugly details. The Clinton campaign has responded not by fessing up, but by putting out more dishonest deceptions.

From Jake Tapper:

The sale was a pretty serious national security issue, not so much because the technology was sensitive, but because the sale means our military has to rely on foreign companies for critical weaponry.

Here's Tapper:


Not surprisingly, the Clinton campaign is compounding its deception with more deception as it tries to explain away this latest controversy. McClatchy today quotes Clinton spokesman Jonathan Swain claiming that "In 1995, when this group bought Magnequench, there were assurances made that production would stay in the United States." But as ABC recounts, the Congressional Research Service reports that the state-owned Chinese company that Clinton allowed to purchase Magnequench "promised to keep those Anderson, Ind., jobs in the U.S. only until 2005."

This is about as pristine an example of Clintonian deception and parsing as you are going to find. First comes the pander - an ad that conveys that signature Clinton bite-the-bottom-lip, feel-your-pain message of empathy and outrage. Then comes the revelation that the whole thing Clinton supposedly feels bad about was originally brought about by the Clinton administration, which she endlessly touts. And finally there is the lying - pretending that there were "assurances" that what happened wouldn't happen, when in fact those assurances were not what's being claimed.

With both Indiana and North Carolina being among the two worst-hit states by the Clinton-backed NAFTA/PNTR policies that this Magnequench controversy epitomizes, you would think this would make a perfect issue for Barack Obama to start talking about.

Source: David Sirota: ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception - Politics on The Huffington Post

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the wheels are coming off clinton's cart!
...and all her lies are falling out!


ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception

Posted April 30, 2008 | 03:42 PM (EST)

David Sirota: ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception - Politics on The Huffington Post

On Monday, I wrote about Hillary Clinton airing an ad decrying the closure of a defense manufacturing factory that her husband, Bill Clinton, helped close by approving the sale of the company to a Chinese state-owned firm. Now, ABC News is running with the story, and uncovers some more ugly details. The Clinton campaign has responded not by fessing up, but by putting out more dishonest deceptions.

From Jake Tapper:

"A memo prepared for [Indiana Senator Evan] Bayh by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service earlier this year stated that the Clinton administration could have objected to the sale under CFIUS, but it did not...In 2000, also during Bill Clinton's presidency, Magnequench purchased from UGIMAG the factory in Valparaiso that manufactured the Neo magnets. President Clinton's administration took no steps to stop the purchases in 2000, either."

...McClatchy today quotes Clinton spokesman Jonathan Swain claiming that "In 1995, when this group bought Magnequench, there were assurances made that production would stay in the United States." But as ABC recounts, the Congressional Research Service reports that the state-owned Chinese company that Clinton allowed to purchase Magnequench "promised to keep those Anderson, Ind., jobs in the U.S. only until 2005."

This is about as pristine an example of Clintonian deception and parsing as you are going to find. First comes the pander - an ad that conveys that signature Clinton bite-the-bottom-lip, feel-your-pain message of empathy and outrage. Then comes the revelation that the whole thing Clinton supposedly feels bad about was originally brought about by the Clinton administration, which she endlessly touts. And finally there is the lying - pretending that there were "assurances" that what happened wouldn't happen, when in fact those assurances were not what's being claimed.

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