Candidates on Free Trade
May 7, 2008 – 3:25 pm
Republican, corporate lawyer, and Cubs fan Pat Allen feels that John McCain — unlike his two potential Democratic rivals — has shown admirable consistency on free trade (thanks, Ann Raber):
During the Ohio primary last month, Senators Obama and Clinton were in a race to show the people of Ohio which one of them was more anti-free trade and which of them was more against NAFTA. Senator Clinton’s problem was that her husband, the one whose administration she got all that “experience” in, proposed NAFTA and pushed hard to get it passed. Senator Obama’s problem was that his main economic adviser told Canadian government officials that Obama’s NAFTA-bashing was just “politics” and that Obama really didn’t mean it.
Well, John McCain is not having that kind of credibility problem.
He goes on to quote New York Times and Independent pieces that show McCain’s commitment to free trade. His last line: “Now that is a candidate to be proud of.”
Presumably he approves not just of McCain’s consistency but also his position…
tags 2008 barackobama hillaryclinton johnmccain trade
