I guess that means it's time to fire Bill

In the strange case of the Penn being mightier than the words, HRC recently fired one of her top advisors, Mark Penn, because he rationally supports a free trade agreement with Colombia, which differs with her position. This statement really doesn't do the firing justice, because he was actually working with the Colombians discussing a trade deal.

News of Penn's March 31 meeting with Colombian Ambassador Carolina Barco Isakson, in which they discussed a free trade deal, first surfaced on Friday.

Penn apologized for the meeting, which he held in his separate role as chief executive officer of Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, a lobbying firm hired by the South American country to help win the approval by the U.S. Congress of a free trade agreement with the United States.

And then comes Bill.

The presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that her husband, the former president, supports a free trade agreement with Colombia that his wife strenuously opposes.

The acknowledgment adds new hurdles to the New York senator's bid to woo Democratic voters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere who believe free trade agreements have eliminated thousands of U.S. jobs. On Sunday, she demoted her chief campaign strategist for his role in promoting the Colombia pact.

That second paragraph cuts right to the meat of her position, and Obama's for that matter. When campaigning in Ohio, both made themselves out to be staunch opponents of NAFTA, something contradictory to common sense, as well as their political precedents. Now that they are in Pennsylvania, they are appealing to the major unions who oppose any form of free trade and globalization.

Frankly, I'm fairly certain a free trade agreement with Colombia will be reached shortly, because all the numbers I've read make it seem beneficial to both countries. If this weren't the middle of an election year, Clinton and Obama would undoubtedly support it. When this does reach the Senate floor for a vote, I am really interested to see whether any Democrats outside of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan as well as those in the party leadership actually oppose the trade agreement.