Sanders Accepts Challenge to Kill TPP If Elected... Nothing from Clinton So Far
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/12/sanders-accepts-challenge-kill-tpp-if-elected-nothing-clinton-so-farAccepting a challenge and passing it on ahead of primary voting in Ohio and elsewhere on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed that if elected president he would refuse to present the contoversial TransPacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to Congress and asked his rival Hillary Clinton to join him in that pledge.
As he spoke about trade policy and other key issues to a packed indoor stadium in Toledo on Friday night, Sanders told the crowd that if voters turn out in the manner they did recently in Michigan, his campaign will continue to surprise pollsters and the establishment media pundits who have continually downplayed the seriousness of his campaign and its supporters.
Invoking the fight over NAFTA, Sanders told the crowd: "They said it was going to create all kinds of jobs in America. I didn’t believe that for one second. In 1995 I was on the picket lines opposition to that. You don’t need a PhD to understand that a trade agreement written by corporate America was to force American workers to compete against desperately poor people all over the world. American workers should not have to compete against people making pennies an hour."
Sanders continued by saying that "communities here in the Midwest – in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois – have been decimated" by companies offshoring jobs in the wake of NAFTA's passage. Trying to replicate his surprise win in Michigan in the industrial Rust Belt states of Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri—all of which hold primaries on Tuesday—Sanders also released a new ad airing across the region touting his opposition to the kind of trade deals he says his rival Clinton has long embraced:
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At this point I actually wish Bush Sr. would have won a second term and we would have elected a true liberal as president in 1996. Because all nominees since 1992 have advocated from the center. I remember one dem candidate a few cycles ago stating "the manufacturing jobs are gone and we can do nothing about it." That's a far cry from the positive message Bernie is giving.
A bonus is that two terms of Bush Sr. could have potentially minimized the chances that any one else from his family would have run for governor and then president in the future.
Then again if that alternate timeline had occurred we may not have Bernie running today so despite everything that has occurred in the world since '92, maybe everything works out in the end after all. Of course maybe Bernie would have been the nominee in 2004 under this alternate time line. 
I read that here at DU yesterday, and wondered how Hillary can even go to Ohio and look into the faces of the people that lost their livelihoods.
