Hillary ignores Bill's role in sale of Indiana factory to Chinese

[antigop]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4757257&page=1

As she campaigns throughout Indiana, Sen. Hillary Clinton has been talking quite a bit about Magnequench, a Valparaiso, Ind., factory that moved to China.
Clinton cries foul over factory closing. But could her husband have stopped it?

"We've got to elect a president next January who's going to remember Magnequench," Clinton told voters in Valparaiso on April 12.

It seems, however, that when it comes to Magnequench there's quite a bit that Clinton has conveniently forgotten.
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Clinton continued, saying, "Well, a Chinese company bought Magnequench and then they decided that they were going to move the whole company from Indiana to China. Now the president of the United States has the authority to veto that kind of a move, but Senator Bayh begged the Bush administration not to export it — it was going to lose jobs but it was also going to lose the know-how, the technical sophistication that created those magnets. President Bush and his administration wouldn't, basically wouldn't even give Evan Bayh the time of day. Those jobs left, and along with them went the savvy to make the magnets."

What Clinton doesn't tell voters is that Magnequench was originally sold to Chinese interests during her husband's administration, which okayed the move despite concerns about national security and eventual job loss. Experts say the Chinese acquired the "technical sophistication" that created the magnets long before George W. Bush took office.

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind,, Clinton's top surrogate in the state, often joins her on the stump in bashing the president for allowing Magnequench to move abroad. What Bayh doesn't tell voters these days is that he has blamed the company's moving on a 1995 decision made by Clinton's husband's administration.

[OhioChick]

1. K&R

:kick:

[DJ13]

2. Say anything, do anything

She really IS a monster.

[City Lights]

4. Winning. Winning. Winning. Winning. That's her measurement for success.

Winning.

:puke:

[quantass]

5. .

[keep_it_real]

3. Just more Clinton deceit and lying; it will never end

[sandnsea]

6. Well God Damn America anyway

Ooops, all hail anything any President ever does, forever and ever, amen.

[GetTheRightVote]

7. I do not understand why they would vote for someone who would take their job away

from them either, to ignore their own lives like that.

[Owl]

8. Is there anything else we can do to screw the American worker and our future?

I remember, hopefully correctly, Magnequench being a big part of an introduction of high-performance cordless power tools manufactured by Porter-Cable.

Have we squandered that technology away too?

DAMN!

[FrenchieCat]

9. The people are numb at this point.......but the GOP will be waking them up

startled like!

[antigop]

10. Does this count in her " years of experience"? n/t

[chill_wind]

11. I feel Obama should take pains, then, to help her-- and the Indiana voters-- remember.

eom.

[TragedyandHope]

12. Who else is going to make our flag pins?

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[beltanefauve]

13. I wish I had seen this story sooner

Of course, ABC anything is dead to me now. Oddly enough, I did some phone banking for Obama today and made calls to people in this very town. Maybe I'll get a few more people from tomorrow's call list. If so, I'll be sure to make mention of this.

[barack the house]

14. Come on moveon .org this is ripe for the picking. Obama can't go negative moveon can ....

Make clear it is an move on ad though.