Two troublesome omissions in Clinton's speech

[boomerbust]

Organized labor and NAFTA.

[rurallib]

1. one thing about dems - we can find all sorts of clouds behind the silver linings

ETA - did anyone else not mention these subjects also. Might as well condemn the whole lot.

[lunatica]

5. And don't forget awaiting the darkest hour before that dawn and

throwing up our hands that someone hasn't fix that when it keeps showing up.

[SunsetDreams]

2. Is it 1996? nt

[Demit]

3. Unfortunately, no. The unions were stronger then.

They are under assault now, as you know. Would've been nice if they'd gotten a shout-out from the party's standard-bearers.

[progressivebydesign]

17. the entire damn convention was a love letter to organized labor...

were you in the bathroom for all of the other speeches that talked about teachers, firefighters, steelworkers, auto workers, nurses, etc.???

[Fumesucker]

19. In the state with the lowest union membership of all fifty.

At least according to the bureau of labor statistics.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

Among states, New York continued to have the highest union membership
rate (24.1 percent) and North Carolina again had the lowest rate
(2.9 percent).

[Demit]

21. Sorry to just get back to you. Please note, I said standard-bearers. The big guys.

Clinton & Obama. You really don't have to be snide.

[WooWooWoo]

4. seriously?

Clinton gave probably the best convention speech ever...like...in history, and you're complaining he didn't re-hash an issue from 18 years ago?

Some people really are never happy.

[hay rick]

6. TPP- Nafta on steroids.

Sadly, there seems to be a bipartisan consensus on the Trans Pacific Partnership. Neither party wants to talk about it.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Yep. We know why. People have amnesia about NAFTA right now. I guess because of

the nostalgia of Clinton, and his help is needed, and he is beloved.

But he did indeed do NAFTA and start the outsourcing ball rolling. And he was warned, we were all warned, what NAFTA would do. Which it has done.

[randome]

11. NAFTA was only part of it. Technology was also a big factor.

Society is in a perpetual state of upheaval now. Who knows where it will lead us?

[northoftheborder]

12. Clinton did indeed sign NAFTA. However, it had been developed under Bush 1; they had been....

....debating it for years, and the weaknesses threshed out and debated, especially about environmental concerns, workers' rights, etc... Clinton had promised in his campaign that he would make changes pertaining to those things. I'm not sure now just what changes, if any, were made, and it finally did go through under his signature. He cannot be blamed for thinking up and developing the whole thing. Too many people, R & D wanted it, it was already developed and in motion when he came into office. I think few people realized what the full ramifications of the trade deal were going to be. That's a very brief synopsis of how it went through, books could be written, and probably have been about the whole story.

[msongs]

9. he also ommitted cutting toenails and joy riding nt

[FLyellowdog]

10. And my pony....he forgot the DAMN PONY! nt

[progressivebydesign]

16. I'm still pissed about my unicorn not showing up. n/t

[FLyellowdog]

20. I forgot about the unicorn...he forgot the DAMN UNICORN! Thanks.nt

[Union Scribe]

13. Unless it was to apologize

I'm not sure what he could say.

[ErikJ]

14. And Repeal of Glass-Steagal Act!

A Republican idea but Bill signed it.

[progressivebydesign]

15. Oh dear god... every speaker CANNOT hit every point!!

Seriously... I swear you can't please everyone. The 99% of the other speeches were HEAVY in referencing labor and unions. Why did you think that that most of the crowd shots showed the UAW signs waving like crazy???

[RichGirl]

18. Right....

And he should have finished with...I did not have sexual relations with that woman.......Miss Lewinski.....