What about China?
Posted by Vriz on May 12th, 2008
Hillary Clinton is running a new ad in West Virginia. The state is holding its presidential primary this Tuesday. Clinton’s ad centers on the promise that the candidate will level the playing field for America’s middle class. The ad states that Clinton would end $55 billion dollars in giveaways to corporate special interests and invest in middle class tax cuts and new jobs.The ad also promises that the candidate will get “tough on unfair trade deals and end tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas.”
The West Virginia ad is less specific than the ad on the economy that ran in Indiana, in which Clinton talked about “standing up to China.”Taking China out of her ad on the economy is a pretty big omission, considering U.S. bilateral trade deficit with China now tops $256 billion a year. Any candidate who is serious about creating and keeping jobs in the U.S. can’t afford not to mention China.
