Kantor's GREATEST HITS - Transcript of Kantor on Clinton Conference Call 2008

[K Gardner]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mickey+cantor+hillary+clinton - A Hit on Google Search

And this from LAST MONTH - Posted on HillaryClinton.Com

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=6892


4/2/2008
Clinton Campaign Invites Obama Campaign to Add Austan Goolsbee to NAFTA Call
Will Provide Obama Campaign Opportunity To Explain Repeated Misstatements On Goolsbee's Conversations With Canadian Government
"The Obama campaign ought to have Austan Goolsbee on their call today," Clinton Campaign Spokesperson Jay Carson said. "While Senator Obama was telling voters he would fix NAFTA, his chief economics advisor was telling Canadians that his position was just words. Instead of making false attacks on Hillary Clinton's character, the Obama campaign should finally explain why it continues to mislead voters about Mr. Goolsbee's meeting with the Canadian government."

The Obama campaign offered at least five different, and frequently contradictory explanations, of Goolsbee's meeting with the Canadian government. According to a memo produced by the Canadian government, Goolsbee told the Canadians not take Obama's anti-NAFTA rhetoric seriously because it was merely "political positioning."

5. 3/10/08 - Sen. Obama: The meeting did happen, they did discuss NAFTA, but advisor just said Obama wanted to make NAFTA 'stronger for U.S. workers.' "So here’s what happens. You’ve got one of my economic advisors goes and visits a Canadian embassy and they’re asking him questions and he says, 'Well, Senator Obama isn’t planning to repeal NAFTA, but he wants to amend it to make it stronger for U.S. workers.' The Canadian embassy writes it up as, 'Well, maybe Obama is not as tough on NAFTA as you might think.' And the Clintons start waving this and saying, 'See? Actually, he’s the one.'"

4. 2/29/08: Sen. Obama: 'It did not happen.' Anchor: "So, completely inaccurate, did not happen, end of discussion." Sen. Obama: "It did not happen."

3. 2/28/08 - Rice: 'There had been no contact.' "The Canadian ambassador issued a statement that was absolutely false. There had been no contact. There had been no discussions on NAFTA. So we take the Canadians at their word...period."

2. 2/27/08 - Obama advisor just said 'hello.' "Goolsbee: Canada's consul general in Chicago contacted him ‘at one point to say ‘hello’ because their office is around the corner."

1. 2/27/08 - 'No conversations have taken place' with the Canadian government on NAFTA. "Earlier Thursday, the Obama campaign insisted that no conversations have taken place with any of its senior ranks and representatives of the Canadian government on the NAFTA issue."

The Obama campaign has tried to deflect attention from Goolsbee by making false attacks on Hillary Clinton. Several members of the Clinton administration and Clinton biographers independently confirm that she was critical of NAFTA in the early 1990s.

DAVID GERGEN: "I was actually there in the Clinton White House during the NAFTA fight and I must tell you Hillary Clinton was extremely unenthusiastic about NAFTA. And I think that's putting it mildly. I'm not sure she objected to all the provisions of it but she just didn't see why her husband and that White House had to go and do that fight. She was very unhappy about it and wanted to move on to health care. So I do think there's some justification for her camp saying, you know, she's never been a great backer for NAFTA."

DEE DEE MYERS: Q: And you know, Dee Dee, the first thing that came to my mind is, "Come on." What is she going to do?... Meyers: Right, and she did express - I was there too - and she did express reservations about it, as she said.

MICKEY KANTOR: "In August in 92, we had to make a decision," Mickey Kantor the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Clinton adviser, and free trade advocate recalled for the Huffington Post. "President Clinton had to make a decision as governor, whether or not he would support NAFTA, and of course he did... Hillary Clinton was one of the great skeptics in the discussion as to whether he should do. So she was always skeptical beginning in 1992 and onward."

Clinton Biographers:

SALLY BIDELL SMITH: "Liberal Democrats, including Hillary, opposed it primarily because it could take jobs away from American workers. But as an advocate of global economic cooperation, Bill was drawn to its free-trade philosophy."

CARL BERNSTEIN: "'Bill,'" he recalled Hillary Clinton as saying, "'you are doing Republican economics when you are doing NAFTA.' She was against NAFTA. And if she would somehow come out and tell the real story of what she fought for in the White House and failed in a big argument with her husband she would end up moving much closer to those Edwards followers."


Mickey Kantor Bio
AKA Michael Kantor

Born: 7-Aug-1939
Birthplace: Nashville, TN


Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government, Business

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Secretary of Commerce, 1996-97

Military service: US Navy (officer, four years)

Wife: (d. 1978, one son)
Wife: Heidi (m. 1982, one daugher)
Daughter: Alix


University: BA Business and Economics, Vanderbilt University (1961)
Law School: JD, Georgetown University Law School (1968)


Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Partner (1997-)
US Secretary of Commerce (1996-97 under Bill Clinton)
US Trade Representative (1993-97)
Member of the Board of Pharmacia
Member of the Board of Monsanto
Member of the Board of Korea First Bank
New Perspectives Quarterly Board of Directors
Friends of Hillary
Gore 2000
New Leadership for America PAC
Pacific Council on International Policy
Searchlight Leadership Fund
Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity


FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The War Room (14-Sep-1993) Himself

[Stephanie]

1. How did this get started? I see so many threads on it already.

What set this off?

[global1]

2. The MSM Will Probably Say It Came From Rev Wright As A Peace Offering To....

get back into the good graces of Barack Obama. You know that somehow they will turn this around and blame the Obama campaign for this video and the comments made on it.

[K Gardner]

3. Kicking for update of Goolsbee/NAFTA Conference Call

[grantcart]

4. lol like the acting credit made the whole post lol

[K Gardner]

5. I know.. :-)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Kantor bio: racist, disses indiana, and is a general lying jerk.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/2/93316/53926/838/507664

[K Gardner]

7. HuffPo Quotes Kantor as Advisor/Aide to Clinton April 2008

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/did-hillary-clinton-reall_n_86674.html

"In August in 92, we had to make a decision," Mickey Kantor the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Clinton adviser, and free trade advocate recalled for the Huffington Post. "President Clinton had to make a decision as governor, whether or not he would support NAFTA, and of course he did... Hillary Clinton was one of the great skeptics in the discussion as to whether he should do. So she was always skeptical beginning in 1992 and onward."

Indeed, as Kantor went on to note, Hillary Clinton long held reservations over the labor and environmental fallouts of the free trade agreement. In addition, she was, at the time, eager to see her health care reform (not NAFTA) pushed through Congress. As such, Clinton biographer Sally Bedell Smith writes in her book "For Love of Politics," her disapproval of the trade agreement was both political and philosophical.

The economic team and other key advisors, including Mack McLarty, Mickey Kantor, and David Gergen, were likewise urging Bill to use his momentum to push or congressional ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...Liberal Democrats, including Hillary, opposed it primarily because it could take jobs away from American workers. But as an advocate of global economic cooperation, Bill was drawn to its free-trade philosophy.

It fell to Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative responsible for implementing NAFTA, to reason with Hillary. One day in August, he sat her down on a bench behind the White House and tried to strike a compromise. "I said, 'If you want to drop NAFTA, we can kill it, but we shouldn't,'" Kantor recalled. "I said, 'The way to do it is to introduce health care, spend a month on it, and then do NAFTA, then go back to health care.'" With misgivings, Hillary acquiesced to the proposed sequence.

[Barack_America]

8. Monsanto?!?!

:puke:

[K Gardner]

9. Truly !

[stillcool]

10. ABC....

Clinton Informal Adviser on Hoosiers in 1992: "These People are S---"

May 01, 2008 3:15 PM

Mickey Kantor -- Bill Clinton's Trade Representative, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and an informal adviser to her campaign -- once had some not-so-nice things to say about the Hoosiers his chosen candidate is working so hard to pursue.

As seen in The War Room, watching election returns come in, Kantor said in hushed tones to James Carville, “Look at Indiana, wait, wait – look at Indiana. 42-40. It doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are s---. Excuse me."

You can watch it HERE; the moment comes about 4:45 into the clip.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/

[K Gardner]

11. Excellent.. its getting there.

[stillcool]

13. It's on the blog...

about a third of the way down the page. Sort of like a "in other news". I sent it to MSNBC...Morning Joe, Hardball, and Keith..and asked them to play it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for at least 3 weeks. I told them I would hold my breath while waiting for it to air.

[sunnystarr]

15. Hard to catch the "worthless white ni**er part on that clip ..

This clip only includes the 2 quotes and amplifies what is difficult to hear on the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

[formercia]

12. If I were Mr. Kantor

I wouldn't waste any time waiting for any offers of a position in the Obama Administration.

He can go back to Monsanto. He will fit in well there.

[BeyondGeography]

14. "And I told Hillary, don't worry about it, they're all worthless white ni**ers anyway."

[AzDar]

16. Kick...

:kick: