Another Day, Another Dodge From Hillary

Hillary Clinton actually answered a question about the trade bill in front of Congress.  She said that if she were still a senator, she would vote against the current bill giving fast track authority to president Obama unless there was a guarantee that a second bill that gave help to workers whose jobs were affected adversely by trade would also pass.  She added that she was not necessarily against the substance of the Trans Pacific Pact, the trade treaty that would be brought up for a vote once the fast track legislation was enacted.

Let's translate what Hillary is saying.  First, she is telling the senate Democrats to vote against giving Obama any fast track authority at the moment.  She doesn't have the courage to take a position on the trade treaty itself; all she would say is that she is not necessarily opposed to it.  This is the same treaty that Hillary praised as the "gold standard" of trade agreements when she was secretary of state.  Now, she won't even endorse it.  She has been getting hammered, however, by Bernie Sanders and others for staying quiet on the fast track bill, so now she has a position.  Since her last name is Clinton, however, it is the sort of position that is her specialty:  she has a position which isn't really a position.  She says which way she would vote if conditions that she knows won't happen were to occur.  All in all, Hillary is doing her usual double talk.

Why would anyone ever want her to be president?