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To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (54446)	10/24/2002 1:07:52 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I give Clinton credit for being on the right side of those issues, too. Smoot-Hawley is not a propos. There is nothing like so broad a protectionist regime today. What happened was that complaints about dumping and other predatory trade practices were given more weight than I believe appropriate, in a handful of cases. It was an intermixture of "fair trade" arguments, which still have some appeal, even to conservatives, and political expediency. More important examples of the renunciation of principle were when Leiberman went from opposing late term abortion and favoring vouchers, to the opposite positions, to become vice- president. Al Gore himself started out pro- life, until he realized it would hamper his career. And, again, the answer is "current".......

To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (54446)	10/25/2002 12:11:35 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

They sure did. True enough. One funny thing though - wasn't it that filthy liberal, the man "Conservative Republicans" and cons in general love to hate and demonize, Clinton, who spearheaded the NAFTA and a lot of the GATT effort? Ouch. Yeah... Clinton did a great job of riding on the coattails of the Reagan and Bush administrations which initiated the NAFTA trade agreements... Those two administrations did most of the "grunt work" and Clinton got all the glory (and the blame if you look at the perspective of the unions).. Hawk