North American Free Trade Agreement

David Bonior, John Edwards’ campaign manager, just led a conference call of union leaders slamming Hillary Clinton for what they said was the dismissive tone with which she dodged a question about NAFTA.

“For us for me this is not a laughing matter,” said Bonior, who said NAFTA was the Clintons' way of rewarding the corporate part of the Clinton machine and started the decline of the middle class. He blamed Bill Clinton for passing it. And called the agreement “one of the worst trade deals in the history of organized societies.”

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The Edwards campaign just announced a 1:30 conference call to discuss what it says was Hillary Clinton's "dismissively 'laughing off' questions on NAFTA in last night's debate."

Last night, Joe Trippi, a senior aide to Edwards, previewed that argument to reporters.  read more »