The Irony Keeps Rolling : Updated
Keith_Indy on Apr 28 2008 at 8:55 am | Filed under: Election 2008, Keith's Page
In searching today about the post I put up last week, about Clinton’s ad about defense jobs lost to China, I found these juicy bits…
Bayh blasted federal policies that allowed the sale of the plant to the Chinese, saying that now the United States has to buy the magnets used in its smart bombs from China. The Pentagon bureaucrat who approved the sale ought to have lost his job, Bayh said, not the 225 people who worked at Magnaquench. “We ought to put a stop to it, and President Clinton will,” he said.
Trout said Indiana used to be the magnet capital of the United States, but that all magnet manufacturing plants have since been sold to foreign interests.
“If we had someone in the White House who was paying attention, maybe this wouldn’t have happened,” he said.
Clinton said America is losing its military advantage. To allow the sale of a company that makes magnets for use in smart bombs to the Chinese is “anything but smart,” she said.
Eee gads, the irony is just to good to be true.
Coverage of the issue…
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one to figure it out.
UPDATE:
OH, and it really does keep on rolling:
We might just want to ask ourselves, who was governor of Indiana at the time of the sale to China?
I know, I know, but they promised not to move the company out of the country, so that makes it OK to sell them the technology.
More coverage:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/clinton-criticizing-closu_b_98972.html
http://thetmexperience.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/clinton-misremembers-again/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/24/193716/354/588/502845
And I got a letter in the local paper…
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