Note: I've been in Idaho meeting with legislators and giving a speech, so this post is a bit late because I've been on the road. - D
In the video above, you will find a very short clip I put together after tonight's Democratic presidential debate. Please forward the link on to as many folks as you can.
Regardless of which candidate you support, you will likely find this video truly stunning. This was by far the most insulting comment of the evening - and likely the one that will come back and haunt Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Really, what an offensive statement Clinton made to the millions of American and Mexican workers who lost their jobs and saw their wages destroyed thanks to NAFTA - a deal pushed by the Clinton administration (for some more data on NAFTA, see this report from the Economic Policy Institute).
Sure, you can argue that Clinton was just laughing at Perot - but even that is insulting. Last I checked, 1 in 5 voters voted for Perot in 1992, and laughing at a candidate who got that many votes is a good way to insult those voters.
But I actually don't think the laugh in this video is what is really most important. It is the claim that she can't really remember the debate over NAFTA that is the worst part, when you consider how intense that debate was and all the real-world consequences of NAFTA.
You want to talk about showing how utterly out of touch you are, that's how you do it - you laugh and say you barely remember the debate over the very trade deal that is destroying America's middle class. And then after you stop laughing, you go to the Senate floor to vote to expand NAFTA, as Clinton says she's going to in the next few weeks.