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« on: February 20, 2008, 10:32:37 am »

NAFTA Trade Pact May Be 'Sleeper' Issue in Democratic Rust Belt Primaries
By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff
Wed Feb 20, 12:02 AM ET
 


If there is a sleeper issue with the potential to catapult Barack Obama past Hillary Rodham Clinton in the remaining delegate-rich Rust Belt states, it is the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to political experts.

 
Many of the working-class white Democrats who form a pillar of Clinton's base blame the pact and trade agreements like it for the migration of the American manufacturing base to other countries. And it was her husband, Bill Clinton, who pushed it through Congress during his first term in the White House.

"I don't think there's any doubt that NAFTA is incredibly unpopular with a base of voters that Sen. Clinton really needs," said Jon Delano, a political scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "What she needs to do is move beyond it and stress what she would do to correct the situation now. That will resonate, whether it comes from her or Sen. Obama."

Exit polls in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary said seven in 10 voters believed that U.S. trade takes more jobs from the state's economy than it creates -- an issue that could certainly resonate in the upcoming Rust Belt primaries.

Two of the three most populous states remaining on the primary calendar, Pennsylvania and Ohio, have seen heavy losses in the industrial sector in recent decades, and most of the free-trading coastal states already have held their primaries and caucuses. Though both must be careful not to provide ammunition to presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the general election by veering too far into protectionism, the remaining primary calendar leaves little immediate incentive for either candidate to temper their trade rhetoric.

NAFTA could have particular potency in the March 4 Ohio primary, which many analysts see as a do-or-die contest for Clinton's campaign. If Obama can attach Clinton to her husband's trade agreement, he might cut into her long-held advantage with working-class white voters.

To that end, Obama has sharpened his trade talk -- "She says speeches don't put food on the table. Well, NAFTA didn't put food on the table, either," he said on Monday in Youngstown, Ohio -- and he sent out mailers repeating a misleading accusation that Clinton said NAFTA was "boon" to the economy.

The quote comes from a 2006 article by the Long Island paper Newsday on Clinton's trade stance. Obama and Clinton have identical voting records on trade issues, and both say NAFTA should be revisited to apply stronger protections for workers and the environment.

Clinton biographer Carl Bernstein told CNN that the then-first lady was a chief skeptic of the trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

"She argued with Bill Clinton when she was first lady ... she said 'Bill, you are doing Republican economics when you are for NAFTA.' She was against NAFTA," Bernstein said.

Still, political experts say Obama's tougher trade talk might work in Ohio, where the collapse of the manufacturing base remains a powerful political weapon in the hands of protectionists. Then-Rep. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from a district running from Cleveland to Akron, rode a wave of populist fervor to victory over longtime Republican Sen. Mike DeWine in 2006.

"All throughout the Ohio valley," Delano said, "trade issues and the concern over shipping jobs overseas rings loudly with voters," Delano said.

"That is an issue that, even 15 years later (after passage of NAFTA), still resonates," said Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio.

Ryan would know.

He capitalized on union backing to unseat then-Rep. Tom Sawyer after a redistricting plan threw Sawyer into a district dominated by the hardscrabble Mahoning Valley on the eastern edge of the state. Once union voters there were reminded that Sawyer had voted for NAFTA nearly a decade earlier, he didn't stand a chance.

"It's that issue that transcends party and ideology," Ryan said.

"It is potentially acute anywhere you have a collapsed manufacturing base, and that includes a lot of Ohio and a lot of other Rust Belt areas, but it requires a campaign to activate that issue," said Justin Buchler, an assistant professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

But Obama could suffer a backlash if his effort is viewed as an unfair attack or waffling on his previous position on trade.

"I think a NAFTA effect won't help her, but he's, of course, been on both sides of the issue," asserted Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who, like Ryan, has not publicly committed her support to either candidate.

The Clinton campaign, citing news stories about his 2004 Senate run, has accused Obama of backtracking on previous support for NAFTA.

"It's a judgment call," Buchler said of Obama's anti-NAFTA rhetoric. "It could work; it could backfire."

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2008, 01:16:56 pm »

The rust belt is the furthest along for the Illuminati's police state.

Lots of prison industries in the rust belt states.

The Illuminati’s 25 Tenets:

1) Men are inclined to evil rather than good.

2) Preach Liberalism.

3) Use ideals of freedom to bring about class wars.

4) Any and all means necessary should be used to reach their goals as they are justified.

5) Believe their rights lie in force.

6) The power of their resources must remain invisible until the very moment that they have gained the strength so that no group or force can undermine it.

7) Advocates a mob psychology to obtain control of the masses

8 ) Promotes the use of alcohol, drugs, moral corruption, and all forms of vice to systematically corrupt the youth of the nation.

9) Seize citizens’ private property by any means necessary.

10) The use of slogans such as equity, liberty, and fraternity are used on the masses as psychological warfare.

11) War should be directed so that the nations on both sides are placed further in debt and peace conferences are designed so that neither combatant retain territory rights.

12) Members must use their wealth to have candidates chosen to public office who would be obedient to their demands, and would be used as pawns in the game by the men behind the scenes. The advisors will have been bred, reared, and trained from childhood to rule the affairs of the world.

13) Control the press, and hence most of the information the public receives.

14) Agents and provocateurs will come forward after creating traumatic situations, and appear to be the saviors of the masses, when they are actually interested in just the opposite, the reduction of the population.

15) Create industrial depression and financial panic, unemployment, hunger, shortage of food, use these events to control the masses and mobs. and use them to wipe out those who stand in the way.

16) Infiltrate Freemasonry which is to be used to conceal and further objectives.

17) Expound the value of systematic deception, use high sounding slogans and phrases, advocate lavish sounding promises to the masses even though they can’t be kept.

18) The art of street fighting is necessary to bring the population into subjection.

19) Use agents as provocateurs and advisers behind the scenes, and after wars use secret diplomacy talks to gain control.

20) Establish huge monopolies towards world government control.

21) Use high taxes and unfair competition to bring about economic ruin by controlling raw materials, organized agitation among the workers, and subsidizing competitors.

22) Build up armaments with police and soldiers who can protect and further Illuminati interests.

23) Members and leaders of the one world government will be appointed by the director of the Illuminati.

24) Infiltrate into all classes and levels of society and government for the purpose of teaching the youth in the schools theories and principles known to be false.

25) Create and use national and international laws to destroy civilization.


See how many o fthese factors fit in your particular rust-belt state.

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