Hillary Does What Hillary Says. Another Example of Great Leadership

The week starts with another fine example of true Leadership. Reports surfaced the end of last week that strategist for the Hillary Clinton campaign was talking with the Columbian government on Free Trade.

It turns out Mark Penn appears to have been acting in his role as chief executive of the international communications and lobbying firm, Burson-Marsteller Worldwide. Reported by the Wall Street Journal of a Monday meeting.


The Colombian Embassy hired the firm to help achieve congressional approval of a bill allowing free trade with the country — a proposal Clinton has sharply criticized.

Earlier Friday, Clinton spokesperson Mo Elleithee said the New York senator "remains steadfast against the Colombian Trade Bill," and maintained Penn's meeting was "not in any way done on behalf of the campaign."

Mr. Penn stated, "The meeting was an error in judgment that will not be repeated and I am sorry for it," Penn said in an issued statement. "The senator's well known opposition to this trade deal is clear and was not discussed."

And in keeping her commitment and word, Hillary quickly dealt with this obvious conflict of interest Mr. Penn has recently brought.

“After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as Chief Strategist of the Clinton Campaign; Mark, and Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, Inc. will continue to provide polling and advice to the campaign.”

Unlike, again, the poor judgement and integrity we see by Hillary's opposition. If even we just talk about the trade agreements that Senator Obama has a problem with.

Senator Obama had been making false statements and attack against Hillary's position on NAFTA, apparently having a change in policy, going from Free Trade, Capitalism and an unabashed open market, “not worrying about Americans competing for jobs”, as he declared, after he proudly supporting adding Peru to the Free Trade Agreement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTfJmz3GWeE

That led to his recent campaign of political rhetoric where he was now down right opposing NAFTA and now making NAFTA the reason for all of American's bad economic and jobs market times.

Senator Obama joined Hillary's call in Ohio on the televised Debate, to retool NAFTA to be a Fair Trade Agreement, not a Free Trade and to send a message if labor, workers and environmental standards were not part of the trade agreement, we couldn't have one.

Concern shattering through Canada, where they were in direct contact with the Obama campaign telling them to ignore any talk they would be hearing against NAFTA from Senator Obama, "it's just polical campaign talk". It sounded like more than political campaign talk to them and they questioned how Obama could be offering assurances privately while publicly condeming the Agreement.

Senator Obama was quick to deny this. The Canadians reconfirmed it with date, time and the name, Austan Goolsbee, Economic Advisor of the Obama campaign. This was not a private job Mr. Goolsbee was undertaking, this was speaking on the behalf of the Obama campaign, showing a level of dishonesty many didn't expect. Later, Senator Obama was forced to admit the conversation took place after records of the meeting were disclosed.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrFPkleRZmbmPtPxHBGN...


Obama never explained how he could be campaigning on one platform, while making private assurances to the opposite. Austan Goolsbee is still an Adviser of his Economic Policy. I guess by him not getting rid of Mr. Goolsbee, he must be in agreement with the policy Mr. Goolsbee had been promoting privately.

Thank you Hillary, for showing excellent judgement, strong and honest character. I hope we will be lucky to have you bring this strong example of integrity, accountability and character back to the White House.