Senior Japanese Government Official Predicts Clinton Will Change Stance On TPP If Elected...

[AzDar]

I Guess Technically She Would Be Changing It "BACK"? Hard To Keep Track Of The Lies...

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003001897



Some Japanese government officials have expressed positive expectations regarding Hillary Clinton, who is highly likely to be named the Democratic Party’s nominee in the U.S. presidential election.

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Regarding trade, Clinton had promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement while secretary of state, but she has changed her stance to opposition to the TPP. She seems to be paying consideration to labor unions, which are support bases for the Democratic Party.

A senior Japanese government official predicted that Clinton “will change her stance again to supporting the TPP if she becomes president.” But it is a source of concern for Japan.



Read It And Weep @ Link

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003001897

[oasis]

1. I'll take Madam President's word against any foreigner, any day.

[AzDar]

2. Not a good look for a functioning democracy...

[oasis]

6. Winners are allowed their opportunity to deliver the goods in a

"functioning democracy". Losers can do all the second guessing their little hearts desire, and if their predictions should prove to be correct, they are free to say "I told you so".

Hillary will not put her second term in jeopardy by giving the green light to the TPP in its present form.

[swhisper1]

10. she may add a harmless tweek, but she will pass it

[kathysart_decoration]

12. Sounds like something Trump would say

Seriously, I am in this country because of "foreigners," and I suspect, so are you. You sound just like Donald Trump and his tirades against Mexicans being criminals. For you, foreigners are liars and you know this even if you don't know them because some woman who is known to have lied about many things is now running for president. You have lost your ability to think, but at the very least, you should think before you write. Your post is offensive Shame on you.

[Ghost Dog]

13. But, but, ¡exceptionalism!

Thank you.

[TheBlackAdder]

42. I think Obama will take TPP and/or KXL off her plate by approving them during his lame duck session.

[SFnomad]

3. The 16th is closer with every post ... can't get here soon enough n/t

[AzDar]

4. She'll STILL be a corrupt liar...Does she change into a pumpkin, or something?

[SFnomad]

5. Something I would expect to hear on a right wingnut website

Then again, the BS cheerleaders around here sound an awful lot like those right wingnuts ... sometimes it's difficult to tell them apart.

[Ghost Dog]

16. Stagecoach

[Broward]

33. I think she will support it. And if so, her supporters will be cheering her

every step of the way.

[ZombieHorde]

7. I guess we'll see who knows her better.

Her American supporters or Japanese officials? Time will tell. Maybe she'll support it after a few minor changes, and then both groups can claim victory.

[Ash_F]

15. That is exactly what will happen

Unfortunately, the changes will not be meaningful.

[jwirr]

19. I thought that was what the TPA was all about. That it cannot

be change at all in the next 6 years. It can only be brought up for a vote.

[ZombieHorde]

20. Has that passed?

I heard about that, but I don't know if it is in effect.

[jwirr]

38. Yes, after a long hard fight it passed.

[Kokonoe]

8. READ MY LIPS!

Some Japanese government officials expressing expectations regarding Hillary Clinton will change her stance again to supporting the TPP if she becomes president are completely False.

[ZombieHorde]

17. I hope you're right. nt

[Arazi]

9. Yup, she will

[senz]

11. How could anyone doubt it?

[Ash_F]

14. Not even a question

[MaggieD]

18. She will change if the TPP changes

... To include the things she said needed to meet her criteria. Worker rights and ability to unionize / organize, currency manipulation, etc.

She has said this over 2 years now, including in her last book.

[Lucinda]

21. Which some of our fellow DU'ers would know if they did their homework

She is very consistent. Unfortunately, so are many posters who don't bother to research.

[MaggieD]

22. It's amazing to me

That someone could spend so much time on a political forum, yet still appear to be so completely uninformed. Shocks me sometimes.

[Lucinda]

23. Me too!

I've been around here for over a decade now, and it still surprises me...especially when long time DU'ers haven't bothered to vet all of our candidates. I assume we are all political junkies...which is probably my first error!

[MaggieD]

24. Yea, I always figure....

If you have enough time to post you have enough time to inform yourself. But apparently that is too much work for some folks.

[Lucinda]

25. I don't understand how people can vote without doing their homework.

This time around, even knowing I was going to support Hillary up front, I still did my research on Bernie and OMalley. Good ideas come from everywhere, and had one of them prevailed, I wouldn't have to wonder what their policies as POTUS would be.

[JonLeibowitz]

27. She has never been specific about what she would need to change to support it again.

That is concerning, as any minor concession could be used as justification for a change of public position.

[MaggieD]

31. Indeed she has

Here and in her book. Have you read it? It was published 2 years ago.

[JonLeibowitz]

34. So the only thing mentioned there is a 'concern' about some of the ISDS language.

She doesn't say what the end goal should be there, whether we need to nix all of that or whether she would support a TPP with only minor concessions.

Furthermore, that is before she came out against the TPP, so I can't see how the video can possibly address the topic at hand.

[MaggieD]

35. Nope - watch it again

She talks about workers being allowed to unionize. Also, you obviously have not read her book.

[JonLeibowitz]

37. Yeah I watched it again. Doesn't say what you claim.

No, I have not read her book.

[MaggieD]

41. Here is a transcript

What do you think she means by workers rights? If you'd been paying attention to her statements on this over the years you would know she wants workers rights to unionize in the agreement.

Instead of informing yourself you criticize. Sad.

https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/hillary-clinton-ralston-live-video-and-transcript

[Live and Learn]

40. Doesn't say that and there is much better fiction to read. nt

[PoliticAverse]

26. Will it be an issue or will the TPP have been passed already before inauguration day. n/t

[hobbit709]

28. Only to be expected. She won't go against her $pon$or$.

[Arugula Latte]

29. I think the TPP is the primary reason Hillary has been shoved down our throats

so forcefully.

[TheKentuckian]

30. Don't forget muscular military responses, dragnet surveillance, and government secrecy

amongst other big set pieces.

The reasons are many.

[amborin]

32. like her planned NYPD Militarization:

http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/how-hillary-clinton-and-chuck-schumer-are-teaming-nypd-push-police-militarization?akid=14342.1919783.IJKOfm&rd=1&src=newsletter1058172&t=6

[Lord Magus]

36. Who the fuck cares what som random anonymous "senior Japanese government official" says?

That has no basis in reality.

[Live and Learn]

39. Doesn't take a genius or psychic to know that. nt

[Octafish]

43. On Bill & NAFTA...

Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton’s Tutor in War and Peace

(During debate), Clinton once again praised a man with a lot of blood on his hands.

By Greg Grandin
The Nation, Feb. 5, 2016

EXCERPT...

 As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband’s administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement. Kissinger, in his role as a global consultant, had played a critical role in bringing the various parties who would write that trade treaty together during the previous George H.W. Bush administration. Kissinger continued his NAFTA advocacy with Bill Clinton. As Jeff Faux writes in his excellent The Global Class War, Kissinger was “the perfect tutor” for Clinton, who was “trying to convince Republicans and their business allies that they could count on him to champion Reagan’s vision.”

By September 1993, Hillary’s healthcare bill was ready to be presented to the public and to Congress. But so was NAFTA. All of Kissinger’s allies in the White House, including Mack McLarty, who would soon join Kissinger Associates, pushed Clinton to prioritize NAFTA over healthcare. Clinton did. It was Kissinger who came up with the idea of having past presidents stand behind Clinton as he signed the treaty. Reagan was sick and Nixon still non grata, but “flanked by former presidents Bush, Carter and Ford at a White House ceremony, Mr. Clinton delivers an impassioned speech,” The Wall Street Journal reported. No such presidential backdrop was assembled to help support Hillary Clinton’s healthcare proposal. By August 1994, healthcare was dead.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thenation.com/article/henry-kissinger-hillary-clintons-tutor-in-war-and-peace/

[NorthCarolina]

44. Big deal, who DOESN'T expect that? Nostradamus he isn't. -nt-