Word: nafta
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last week’s debate, she did. In three key rounds of policy boxing at Cleveland State University, the junior Senator from New York eloquently articulated the critical difference between the two proposed paths to universal healthcare coverage, defended a nuanced plan to navigate the dicey waters of NAFTA politics, and hammered home Senator Obama’s relative foreign policy inexperience as a fundamental handicap for a potential Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. And still, she could very well lose Ohio...
...Thornton jumped in. "Well, take NAFTA, they're both saying the same things now, but that wasn't always the case." Rowland, 48, a member of a school board union, nodded - she says she's seen outsourcing destroy whole Cleveland neighborhoods since President Bill Clinton pushed through the North American Free Trade Act in 1993. By the time Thornton left, Rowland was "leaning toward Obama...
...seen the political debates and watched the candidates haggle over the finer points of NAFTA support. As the presidential race heats up and barbs continue to fly across party lines, am I the only one that is feeling the effects of issue fatigue...
...candidates played to a draw during their 16-minute discussion of their respective health care plans and how each of their campaigns had used accurate or inaccurate allegations to describe them. Nor did the conversation about NAFTA and who was most for it or against it yield a lot of clarity, though Obama's record on the issue is less muddled than Clinton...
...Still, if the Democrats want this election to be about national renewal, about big ideas like energy independence and a rollback of militarism abroad, they are going to have to be truthful and precise. They haven't been on NAFTA, the relatively peripheral trade deal that both Clinton and Obama-formerly equivocal supporters-have made the symbol for the loss of manufacturing jobs. But shutting off free trade won't heal Ohio. Aggressive government action might. That is real change on the horizon, the real choice this year...