Clinton adviser quits over China rhetoric

[DearAbby]

A top expert on China has resigned as an informal adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign in the wake of the candidate's increasingly harsh anti-China rhetoric.

Richard Baum, a political science professor at the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA, resigned in light of what he called “grossly misguided accusations” made by Clinton about China.

“As a lifelong Democrat, it saddens me that Sen. Clinton has chosen to take the low road in her effort to gain our party’s presidential nomination,” Baum said in an e-mail to Politico.

The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Politico.

Clinton recently has ratcheted up her anti-China sentiments, criticizing the country on everything from its human rights violations to its undervalued currency.

“I’m the only candidate who isn’t just talking about cracking down on China but I have a specific plan on how to do it,” she told union members at the AFL-CIO’s Building Trades National Legislative Conference on Wednesday.

“China should be our trade partner, not our trade master.”

Baum was part of an informal advisory group of East Asia specialists formed by the campaign in January.

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Just throwing this out here to digest...disguss

More at


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9719.html

[Skink]

1. Come aboard we've been expecting you...

the Love Boat.....

[BlueIdaho]

2. Disappointed by Clinton - I sense a theme here. nt.

[Name removed]

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[DearAbby]

22. Please read Post #12

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5597150&mesg_id=5597335

[DearAbby]

3. Waiting to see the views of those on DU...

what say you?

[elocs]

10. I'd say I thought I read this same post here yesterday.

On edit: yes, it was yesterday, by babylonsister.

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=108x129439

[DearAbby]

14. Sorry ...and thanks

[elocs]

23. Don't be sorry--you have people who want to discuss it again,

or for whom maybe it is new. So I seen it twice now, compared to other threads which I have seen dozens of times and say the same thing over and over and over again.

[bleep]

16. self delete

[Cha]

4. Saying "hilary has taken the low road" is like

saying the Earth revolves around the Sun.

[mcctatas]

7. heretic....

everyone knows the flat earth is the center of the universe!:evilgrin:

[quantass]

5. DELETED

[DearAbby]

6. How many advisors has she gone through?

Disenchanted in Hillaryland?

[mcctatas]

9. more than al queda numer 2's or spinal tap drummers!

:)

[gateley]

13. ...small green globules as far as the eye can see.

[quantass]

8. I wonder why the MSM hasnt...

used any of the recent evils of hillary such as:

- "Screw-em"-gate
- China-gate
- Democrat-Activist-gate
- Colombia-gate
- Nafta-gate

all this within the last 3-weeks

Or for that matter...why hasnt Obama used any of this

[DearAbby]

15. You would think the

Clinton hating Media would jump on this...

[Emit]

18. You left out Peter Paul-gate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5573662&mesg_id=5573662

[DearAbby]

24. But but

they way you hear the Clinton supporters tell it, their candidate has it hard vs the Media. They are out to get her...Why the media black out on this case?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Obama's mentioned ColombiaGate.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Maybe this is throwing a bone at the Union folks from the Hillary team.....

makes her seem like a radical on Trade with China.

The unions will eat it up.

Lookit Hillary, she standing up to China, they'll say

Slick for some, not so slick to others.

Whatever that campaign does, think opposite.

[zulchzulu]

12. Hillary voted for the China MFN free trade bill and acts like we're too stupid to realize it

It's really asinine what she has said about China. She voted to have them do exactly what they are doing and now that they OWN US, she wants to trash them thinking that people haven't figured out her voting record as well as her husband's signing the China MFN legislation.

She will say or do ANYTHING to try to "win"....

[Emit]

19. Who is she pandering to by doing this though?

[anonymous171]

21. Clinton is just great at Foreign Relations!

:sarcasm: