Questions on Trade Agreement Bring Back the Laugh

Questions on Trade Agreement Bring Back the Laugh
By Perry Bacon Jr.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Asked about her husband's receipt of almost $1 million from a group that backs a trade deal with Colombia that she opposes, Sen. Hillary Clinton turned to a tactic she had used often early in her campaign, though not recently: laughing off the question.

Pressed during a press conference about whether her husband's business dealings and support for a bilateral trade agreement with Colombia represented a "conflict of interest" because she has used some of the couple's personal funds to help finance her campaign, the New York senator laughed for several seconds before saying, "I don't how to answer the question."

"I am against the Colombia trade agreement," she said. "It doesn't matter who talks to me, it doesn't matter the circumstances. I have been against -- I will be against it."

Earlier, asked if her husband's backing of the trade deal would impact her stance if she were elected, Clinton said "the president makes the decisions."

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/10/questions_on_trade_agreement_b.html

There is only one President in that family, and it is not Hillary. So what is she saying? :shrug: