NAFTA

The media is drooling over the release of Hillary Clinton's schedule while she was in the White House because it allows pundits to talk about sex again. The first story I saw showed that Hillary was in the White House on the day her husband and Monica Lewinksy didn't have sexual relations. ABC News went so far as to headline the story: "Hillary at White House on 'Stained Blue Dress' Day."

The foolishness of the media's hype of this story is equally unsurprising and unfortunate. It's a shame not only because it is now, as it was in the 90s, irrelevant, but it's also, as it was in the 90s, a distraction from actual news.

ABC News, to its credit, later pointed out that the released schedule also shows that Hillary Clinton, in 1993, hosted gatherings to show her support for NAFTA; the same NAFTA that her campaign has repeatedly pledged she was not necessarily in support of. The schedules, therefore, provide a smoking gun. Whether Clinton was privately for NAFTA is another discussion, but the schedule proves that she was most certainly working to get her husband's controversial trade agreement passed.

This is the actual kind of news that the media should be looking for as it wades through her schedules. Unfortunately, it looks as though, 10 years later, we're still only interested in a stained blue dress.