“I’m always proud of Wal-Mart”

That’s the voice of Hillary Clinton, speaking as a Wal-Mart board member in 1990.
Now she says she’s learned better.

Ouch!

This is bad:

“I’m always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else,” [Hillary Clinton] said at a June 1990 stockholders meeting.

This is worse:

In a campaign speech last year in New Hampshire, Sen. Clinton said, “Now I know that Wal-Mart’s policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.”

“Now I know”? What has changed at Wal-Mart since 1990, except for the better?

Author: Mark Kleiman

Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com