Trusting Hillary

I was watching President Obama this morning talk about the Transpacific Trade Pact, and in his comments he referred to its opponents (Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders) as people "who don't believe in trade."  It's unlike Obama to make that kind of mistake. Hillary and Bernie (and everyone else on the planet) believe in trade. Obama (off the cuff) made the mistake of overlooking the context. In the larger context, we can safely say that Hillary and Bernie support trade but not this pact.

We see a related error when Hillary accuses Bernie of opposing loans our government made to save the automobile industry during the Bush recession. Bernie supported auto loans but opposed the Wall Street bailouts that came with it. Hillary knows that Bernie favored bailing out the auto companies but could not bring himself to bail out Wall Street.  She is proud she wanted to bail out both. That's the larger context. Hillary then goes on to say that the Wall Street bailout was repaid to the government--the larger context is that millions of retired people and home owners lost everything thanks to Wall Street, and no one repaid them.  

There's a way of telling the truth that isn't truthful. That's one reason Hillary has high negatives. The voters may not spend any time analyzing the logic of her commentary, but they don't trust her.

 





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