I have deliberately not weighed in on Hillary Rodham Clinton but this is the last straw and absolutely contemptible.

1) She voted for Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq, for which she has never, unlike John Edwards, apologized.

2) She lied about her strong support for NAFTA.

3) She lied about the details of her trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

4) She pandered to right wing funder Richard Mellon Scaife who paid for the smears against her and husband.

Her Iraq vote and no "I was wrong" apology is bad enough but now this from the Wall Street Journal via David Sirota:

From the WSJ:

"Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. on Monday to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, a pact the presidential candidate opposes. Attendance by the adviser, Mark Penn, was confirmed by two Colombian officials. He wasn't there in his campaign role, but in his separate job as chief executive of Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, an international communications and lobbying firm. The firm has a contract with the South American nation to promote congressional approval of the trade deal, among other things, according to filings with the Justice Department...A spokesman for Colombia's President Álvaro Uribe said the ambassador met with Mr. Penn to discuss the bilateral agenda. ..The spokesman said he didn't know if Mr. Penn was representing Sen. Clinton or Burson-Marsteller, which signed a $300,000, one-year contract with the Colombian Embassy in March 2007 to work on behalf of the trade deal and anti-drug-trafficking initiatives, according to the Justice Department filings." (emphasis added)

From Sirota:

"So there you have it - the person running a major American presidential campaign is simultaneously on the payroll of a foreign government pushing a bill that the next president would have to confront. And what's truly telling about this is the part about the Colombian government not knowing whether Penn was representing the Clinton campaign or his business clients. Put another way, the two interests are apparently so similar, there's almost no discernible difference - even to the foreign government lining Penn's pocket. Clinton for President is the same thing as Burson-Marsteller for President, with Mark Penn as the Secretary of State-in-waiting.

"The fact that this disgusting Clinton-Colombia pay-to-play relationship is happening, and nobody - not the media, not rival campaigns, nobody - has said a thing about it for almost a year shows just how rampant the culture of corruption is in Washington."

For more about the Colombia Free Trade Pact and Colombia's terrible, immoral and illegal human rights record check here, here, and here.

And knowing this she not only hired Mark Penn but he is still one of the head honchos of the Clinton campaign.

Where is her integrity and respect for truth and real Democratic principles?  She's stuck in the 1990's as this election year's Bill Clinton "I really want to be a Republican like George H.W. Bush and make millions" DLCer.

Clinton should not be the Democratic nominee.

It would be nearly status quo to have Hillary Clinton in the White House for a third Clinton term and a disaster with John Sidney McSame, another right wing Republican, for a third Bush term.

This nation has suffered almost irreparably from Bush's hypocrisy, lies, and destructive policies; we don't need anymore of the same.