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NewsMax.com. WASHINGTON — Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are paying a price for artful dodges on trade over the years.

Thanks to past equivocations, the Democratic presidential candidates
have left themselves open to the criticisms and misrepresentations they
are now turning against each other as they scramble to dissociate
themselves from a trade agreement they once praised _ with
qualifications.

The root of their ambivalence is their shared belief in “free and
fair trade,” which, on the surface, almost anyone can subscribe to.

The problem is that “fair” trade means restrictions on “free” trade,
a gloss-over that allows politicians to have it both ways when saying
where they stand on NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and
similar deals.

In picking apart the other’s this-but-that position, they are
seizing on the “this,” and ignoring the “that,” in the interest of
winning voters in the primary next week in Ohio, where the trade deal
is blamed for lost jobs.

The dustup spilled into the streets Tuesday when dozens of
protesters who oppose free trade gathered outside Clinton’s office in
New York City. Several apparently shackled themselves to a front door
of the building before police came.

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