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Brain Dead Trade Debate
Robert Borosage, Tom Paine
April 9th, 2008
High gasoline prices, mortgage foreclosures, turmoil in financial markets, and a war in Iraq that is ever more costly in money and lives. So the President of the United States steps up to the crisis and demands a fast-track vote from the Congress in 90 days on … a trade agreement with Colombia. It's an insulting debate taking place as if we were still living in Ronald Reagan's “morning in America.â€
BILL SCHER
Would You Close Your School To Pay For Iraq?
When Gen. David Petraeus testifies today about the status of the Iraq occupation, I'll be thinking about my neighborhood elementary school, which may have to close while we continue to waste billions on a failed foreign policy.
ROBERT BOROSAGE
It's not the French; it's US Our McCain ad struck a chord, eliciting both reason and vitriol. It strikes me that it is worth being clear what the ad says and doesn't say. Other than the bad French accent, it isn't anti-French, xenophobic or "racist." It doesn't accuse the French of taking jobs from us. It features a Frenchman hailing Sen. John McCain for bringing jobs to France. There is a fundamental difference.
