Free market Clintonism, RIP: the death of the free trade democrat.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-05-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| Person | Political activity | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| Author | n/a | David Weigel |
HILLARY CLINTON WAS angry about free trade, and she wanted Wisconsin to know it. "I'm tired of being played for a patsy," the candidate said, 48 hours before the state's Democrats would hand a 17-point landslide to Barack Obama. "It's time we said to the rest of the world, 'If you want to have anything to do with our market, you have to play by our rules.'"
That may have been red meat for a hungry crowd in the economically depressed upper Midwest. But Clinton sang the same tune in an interview with the liberal Capital Times newspaper in Madison, railing against a North...
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