Ready for a shock?

Hillary supported NAFTA from the beginning. In November, 1993, she briefed 120 government officials, no press allowed, on NAFTA.

We must be able to assume this wasn't a briefing on why not to adopt her husband's project, right? From Talking Points Memo:

Among the thousands of details of daily life for Clinton, there was a Nov. 10, 1993, entry -- a "NAFTA Briefing drop-by," in Room 450 of the executive office building next door to the White House, closed to the news media.

Approximately 120 people were expected to attend the briefing, and Clinton was to be introduced by White House aide Alexis Herman for brief remarks concluding the program.

But wait, I don't get it. She said in the February 21st Texas debate and the February 26th Ohio debate that she "opposed NAFTA from the beginning!" You mean, she misrepresented her role and position as first lady?

Wait, am I to understand that, her claim to have brokered peace in Northern Ireland wasn't the only thing she's misrepresented about herself?

At least she's been "saying from the very beginning" "as I've said all along" that she regrets her Iraq war vote.

Ay ay ay.



P.S.
By the way, if the NAFTA debate interests you, here's economics journalist Daniel Gross in Newsweek about how NAFTA is a manufactured argument (pun not intended but I'm leaving it there) because the jobs lost in Ohio and Pennsylvania are going to China, not Mexico or Canada. My guess is factory jobs in Texas are still going just over the border, though. Anyway, from Gross's article:

There's something outdated and Kabuki-like about the whole NAFTA drama, which was manufactured largely for consumption in Ohio and probably won't be going on a national tour.

Nationally, China has long since displaced Mexico as the bugaboo on trade issues.

Yes, U.S. imports from Mexico have risen sharply since 1993, from $48 billion to $216 billion in 2006. But U.S. exports to Mexico have tripled in the same period, from $52 billion to $156 billion.