(NAFTA, GATT, MAI, WTO, IMF, World Bank, FTAA, etc.)
NAFTA - cooked up under the Bush administration - was incapable of being passed under Bush. NAFTA managed to get passed with Clinton-Gore in the Whitehouse and with Democrats controlling both the House and Senate. Gore debated on national TV in favor of NAFTA. This was possible because the mainstream labor and environmental organizations were more concerned with sucking up to the Democrats than with fighting something they'd never stand for if it came from a Republican administration. What's worse? The wolf or the wolf in sheep's clothing?
On trade pacts, the only difference is that Bush offers rhetoric and Gore has a rap sheet of 200 trade deals that he has helped negotiate through Clinton-time, led by NAFTA and GATT. Gore's most substantive achievement in the field of labor relations was to gut the NLRB in his Reinventing Government rampages in 1994.
Last modified: 2 November 2000
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