Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton think the people of a certain state are mighty stupid. I just can’t tell exactly which state they think so little of.
Either they think the voters of Ohio are blithering morons, or they think the electorate of Texas consists of millions of village idiots. From the Associated Press:
LAREDO, Texas — If the shuttered factories that dot the Ohio landscape tell the story of NAFTA, so too do the miles of trucks carrying auto parts, fruit and tequila across the Mexican border through this booming port city in South Texas.
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton roundly condemn NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, as they campaign across Ohio, which holds its primary Tuesday. But the candidates are relatively silent about the matter in Texas, another delegate-rich state holding a primary the same day - one that has seen an economic renaissance along its southern border since the agreement came into effect in 1994.
Signed into law by President Bill Clinton, NAFTA opened up trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico by eliminating tariffs on most goods moved back and forth across those countries’ borders. But the deal established no labor standards, encouraging manufacturers in Ohio and elsewhere to ship jobs to Mexico in order to produce goods more cheaply there.
NAFTA is highly unpopular in Ohio, where blue-collar workers are a pivotal force. But the agreement is widely praised in Laredo and other Texas border towns for bringing new life into a once poor and struggling region.
The border area - Laredo, the Rio Grande Valley - has been one of the areas most benefited by NAFTA. “There’s no doubt about it,” said Andres Rivas, an economics professor at Texas A&M International University who studies trade. “It’s had a big, positive impact. I really don’t see any down side.”
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The NAFTA paradox produces an odd balancing act for the Democratic candidates who hope to claim victory in both Texas and Ohio next week.
Clinton, who must win both contests to save her struggling candidacy, hammered NAFTA in a campaign appearance in Ohio Thursday while acknowledging its positive impact on South Texas. [Emphasis added.]
Well, it would seem to me that the candidates on the left can’t have it both ways. Either they’re FOR or AGAINST NAFTA.
Changing their tunes every time they go to a different state just makes them look like hypocrites, liars, and panderers.
People of Ohio! Are you idiots?
People of the Lone Star State! Are you morons?
Watch the nightly news, people! The Democratic candidates are lying to you. Someone’s going to eventually be left in the dust. Personally, I doubt it will be the people of Texas.
Neither of these candidates have the political weight to take on NAFTA and its supporters. Those Ohio jobs are irrevocably gone, and no amount of posturing by Democratic demagogues is going to bring those jobs back.
Face it. And don’t vote for Obama or Clinton. Just don’t
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