The Clinton Email Bernie Sanders Should Bring Up in Sunday’s Debate

[Barack_America]

The Clinton Email Bernie Sanders Should Bring Up in Sunday’s Debate

In supporting a free-trade deal with Colombia, she claimed workers there would have better rights than Americans. Does that include being murdered by death squads?

By Greg Grandin

A few months back, in an early debate, Bernie Sanders graciously said he was “sick and tired” of hearing about Hillary Clinton’s “damn” email scandal. But in the upcoming debate, this Sunday before the Michigan primary on Tuesday, he should raise the issue. He should do so not to stoke the controversy over the procedural legality of running a private server. Rather, he should focus on the content of the emails.

Sanders should ask Clinton about her relentless advocacy of free-trade treaties, and in particular about one 2011 email (to which David Sirota and Sarah Berger called attention in a piece last week) where she wrote, in pushing for the now ratified free-trade agreement with Colombia: “at the rate we were going, Columbian [sic] workers were going to end up w the same or better rights than workers in Wisconsin and Indiana and, maybe even, Michigan.”

The effect of Bill Clinton’s NAFTA and Hillary Clinton’s Colombian Free Trade Agreement has been devastating to Michigan and most of the rest of the country, and accounts for the appeal of Donald Trump...

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-clinton-email-bernie-sanders-should-bring-up-in-sundays-debate/

[Hydra]

1. Free trade = deregulation

That never turns out well, no matter how many people want to claim something magical happens when you don't enforce the law.

[Barack_America]

2. Michigan knows that better than anyone else...

...and will never forgive the Clinton's for it.

Hillary was publicly against the Colombian free trade agreement, while lobbying for it in the shadows. Now she claims to suddenly be against the TPP, but what the hell do we know what she's actually fighting for?

[Hydra]

3. We really don't, except that in the end it will help the 1%

It's a sad thing to see. She is an exceptionally talented woman, it's hard to watch her tear down what's left of our world in the name of the Family she is trying to join.

[AzDar]

4. Ayup.

[JackRiddler]

5. One can only hope.

Full frontal on the toxic Clinton economics, social and foreign policy.

[That Guy 888]

6. Those "better rights for workers" seem to occur as much as our "increased exports" and job growth do

Grandin asks a good question:

Considering that Clinton said in that email that Colombian “workers were going to end up w the same or better rights than workers in Wisconsin and Indiana and, maybe even, Michigan,” here’s the question Sanders should ask her: Did she mean that she hoped to raise Colombia up to US standards, or lower the United States’ to Colombia’s?

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Barack_America.

[BigBearJohn]

8. K/R

[slipslidingaway]

9. knr nt

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. I'd like to see this issue raised

[amborin]

11. this and the Panama Papers!