Hillary Clinton on the proposed US-Colombia trade deal:
I am disappointed that President Bush has decided to send the Colombia Free Trade Agreement to Congress. As I have said consistently for several months, I oppose signing any trade deal with Colombia while violence against trade unionists continues and the perpetrators are not brought to justice. The United States should be pursuing trade agreements that promote human rights and worker rights, not overlook egregious abuses. I will vote against the President’s Colombia trade agreement, and will urge my Senate colleagues to do the same.
No surprise there. No surprise either that Barack Obama is bound to vote against the deal himself. Well, that’s the way the wind is blowing: in favour of economic nationalism and state-run racketeering. So be it. Theoretically this might just be campaign posturing but it seems as though it might be hard for a Democratic president to abandon this sort of rhetoric once in office.
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