Handy Guide to Hillary Clinton condemning Indiana factory closing that she and Bill supported

[zulchzulu]

Wake up Indiana voters!

Hillary Clinton has an ad indicating how she condemns the Magnequench factory in Indiana being closed down and moved to China.

What she forgets to tell you is that she actually supported such a move as well as her husband signed into law the reason for the factory relocating to China. Evan Bayh has even condemned Bill Clinton in the past for making it happen. Oddly, he doesn't mention that while campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

Here's how it goes:

"We've got to elect a president next January who's going to remember Magnequench," Clinton told voters in Valparaiso on April 12. It seems, however, that when it comes to Magnequench there's quite a bit that Clinton has conveniently forgotten. "We went to Valparaiso," Clinton told voters in Princeton, Ind., last night, "where there used to be a plant called Magnequench that made the magnets that helped to guide the precision-guided missiles, the so-called smart bombs. You've seen those  they take off, they go down the chimney, they were incredibly sophisticated and these magnets, you know  not the kind you put on the refrigerator, like we all do  but these really sophisticated magnets were instrumental making that happen."

Clinton continued, saying, "Well, a Chinese company bought Magnequench and then they decided that they were going to move the whole company from Indiana to China. Now the president of the United States has the authority to veto that kind of a move, but Senator Bayh begged the Bush administration not to export it  it was going to lose jobs but it was also going to lose the know-how, the technical sophistication that created those magnets. President Bush and his administration wouldn't, basically wouldn't even give Evan Bayh the time of day. Those jobs left, and along with them went the savvy to make the magnets."

What Clinton doesn't tell voters is that Magnequench was originally sold to Chinese interests during her husband's administration, which okayed the move despite concerns about national security and eventual job loss. Experts say the Chinese acquired the "technical sophistication" that created the magnets long before George W. Bush took office.

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind,, Clinton's top surrogate in the state, often joins her on the stump in bashing the president for allowing Magnequench to move abroad. What Bayh doesn't tell voters these days is that he has blamed the company's moving on a 1995 decision made by Clinton's husband's administration.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4757257&page=1

Here you can see in her own words why she was for opening up unfair trade practices with China because...um, the obvious:

Clinton was campaigning for the U.S. Senate when the bill passed (just seven Democrats opposed), and Clinton was asked at a CNN-sponsored forum in April 2000 what she thought about it, in light of China’s history on human rights.

Said Clinton: "I share the concerns that many of my supporters in organized labor have expressed to me, because I do think we have to make sure that we improve labor rights, we improve environmental standards in our bilateral and our multilateral trade agreements.

"But on balance, I’ve looked at this, I’ve studied it, I think it is in the interests of America and American workers that we provide the option for China to go into the WTO (World Trade Organization). Right now, we are trading with China. We have a huge trade deficit with China. The agreement that has been negotiated between our two countries would open their markets to us in a way that they are not yet open, and in fact, for many large manufactured products, like automobiles, we would have the first chance to really get in and compete in that marketplace."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/451/

Of course, Hillary Clinton is running an ad condemning the very things both she and her husband voted for and signed into law:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVg-ppACmD8

Hello working class! Are you awake? Are you seeing the obvious? The Clintons think you are suckers.

[babylonsister]

1. She's flippin' and a-floppin'? Say it isn't so! And you, zulchzulu,

thank you so much for exposing the truth, as always. :hug: And rec'd!

[rusty quoin]

2. I have called Bayh's office many times.

Being here in Indiana, the one thing I could count on, was when I called his office to not vote for this or that, he would vote for it. I think he and Clinton are a good fit. In my town, a factory is closing and going to China. There is one thing for damn sure, we do not have representation.


Perhaps Barack Obama, and a whole lot more of Democrats can change it.

[zulchzulu]

6. It turns out the Bayh memo trashing Bill Clinton will be released tomorrow... n/t

[KSinTX]

3. Cannot believe that

Every time I start feeling Switzerland about these folks, I get ambushed by yet another bizarre tale of their double dealings and double talking. Trying hard to maintain a modicum of neutrality for the sake of ending Iraq but it gets harder with each passing day.

[madeline_con]

4. More on this story...

Counter Punch April 7 - 9, 2006

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair04072006.html

In these Times

January 23, 2004
Magnet Consolidation Threatens Both U.S. Jobs and Security


http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/685/

Slate


"...the Chinese consortium’s acquisition of Magnequench occurred way back in 1995, when Hillary’s husband was president. Before the sale could go through, it had to be approved by an executive-branch panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/04/29/hoosier-daddy.aspx

[1776Forever]

5. Something to think on - Sen. Bayh went to the Bilderberg Conference in 1999 - Bill & HRC belong too

Who are the elitists? I have been checking out connections to the Bilderberg group for awhile now and I have found a lot of connections. I don't know if they are as notorious as some make them out to be, but it is interesting:

Here is a link to the info:

http://www.indytruth.org/bilderberg.html

Indiana's Senator Evan Bayh attended the 1999 Bilderberg Conference in Sintra, Portugal. 3 U.S. Senators meeting in secrecy with some of the biggest CEO's and world leaders at a meeting organized by a former Nazi is quite alarming. Not only that, but discussing public policy in secret is in fact illegal. The Logan Act of 1799 states,

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

That act also bars public officials from meeting with private citizens to make policy, a crime for which President Bill Clinton was fined $300,000. Senator Bayh and every other U.S. official who has participated in Bilderberg and similar groups is guilty of that crime and should be punished accordingly.