Bill Clinton's Foreign Ties: A Headache for Hillary?

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At the June gala, Clinton's hosts played a video depicting him as a hero to Colombia; Uribe praised him as the country's unofficial minister of tourism because of his many trips there. Clinton then took the microphone and praised Uribe for reducing violence in the country. Without explicitly endorsing it, he touched briefly on the "debate that is taking place in Washington" over the trade deal. "We need to remember that we are friends," Clinton said.

At the time, nobody seemed to notice a potentially awkward problem with the event: while Bill Clinton was praising the Colombian leader, candidate Hillary Clinton was taking a hard line against free- trade agreements with Latin America. More recently, stumping for blue-collar votes and union endorsements in Pennsylvania, Hillary has intensified her opposition to the Colombian trade pact and denounced the Uribe government's human-rights record.

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