That’s kinda funny. At least Clinton wanted fair trade.

Free trade with a totalitarian communist country that has no respect for human rights, a country that uses slave labor, a country that killed peaceful protesters en masse at Tianamen? Yeah, Clinton was a big friend to democracy and human rights.

Anyway, my point is that by moving so much of our industrial base to China we have allowed the Chinese to grow their economy and now they are beginning to purchase and drive cars in large numbers. The original complaint in this thread was about the price of oil — increased Chinese demand is a bigger component to this than anything Bush has done. I’m no fan of Bush of course, but I don’t like to see him blamed for things he has no control over.