Hillary Clinton has been excoriated by right and left alike over her silence on Obama’s trade bill, and after a pummeling in the Sunday morning news sites, she has finally made a statement making people think she’s sided with Nancy Pelosi against Hillary.
Hillary Clinton, facing criticism from rivals for her silence on a stalled international trade agreement, spoke out Sunday during a campaign stop in Iowa, urging President Barack Obama to collaborate with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and craft a deal more palatable to Democrats.
“The president should listen to and work with his allies in Congress starting with Nancy Pelosi, who have expressed their concerns about the impact that a weak agreement would have on our workers to make sure we get the best strongest deal possible,” she said. “And if we don’t get it, there should be no deal.”
It wasn’t quite a judgment of the trade deal overall, but it was her most specific assessment of the policy debate so far, and it came on the heels of an embarrassing defeat for the White House, which saw Democrats largely abandon its push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
This is after her campaign manager went on Face the Nation and clearly repeated over and over that clearly Hillary had cleared up her clear position, and also that she would be more clear in the future, clearly.