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Canada has been harboring a grudge since 1966, when the two teams last met and the U.S. shocked its northern neighbor by winning the World Cup. Canadians began to rethink their national plan (More funding? A youth movement? Abandon NAFTA?), but what really upset them was learning that hardly anyone in the U.S. even knew about the contest. It's one thing to import Canadian NHL teams to southern U.S. cities, steal SCTV guys for SNL, infringe on fishing rights, but to beat them at their own sport? This could get ugly...
Daley did, however, use his speech to advertise some of the Clinton Administration's economic policy successes, including NAFTA, the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and the balanced budget agreement...
...building the greatest economy in the history of the world. It is a tension that Clinton is giving more thought to since last fall, when he suffered the biggest defeat of his second term: Congress's refusal to give him the "fast track" authority he sought to negotiate more NAFTA-like trade deals. Former White House aide Bill Galston, who attended the dinner, says Clinton is convinced the defeat was not a failure of tactics or the work of interest groups but rather a reflection of the deeper unease Americans are experiencing as they try to root their lives...
...labor, anti-NAFTA Democrats that refuse to crack, a defiant group that could sink the measure ? and that, come 2000, could make the Republican Party look positively united by comparison...
...really want to convert their party, they need to remember the Clinton Rule: nothing convinces like success. Bill Clinton was able to get a predominantly-liberal Democratic Party behind him despite their distaste for many of his stances (welfare reform, NAFTA, the death penalty) by finally gaining his party entry to the White House after years of electoral embarrassments...