Clinton Wants to File Complaints

May 10, 2008

The fact of the matter is that online gambling should be legal. You can ask the American people and the majority will tell you that they think online gambling should be legal. So where does that leave us in reference to the World Trade Organization’s decision?

It seems that United States’ Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton had alluded to the fact that she would support the WTO’s decision in regards to online gambling and would legalize it even though she has not come out publicly and said so. She did say that if she was in office that her administration would file complaints with the WTO if need be so we can only assume that she would be willing to follow their ruling as well.

Clinton was on the Bill O’Reilly show and was talking about the fact that nearly all of the OPEC members are also members of the WTO. However, if we are going to the WTO to settle a dispute we have to expect to abide by their rulings if we expect other countries to follow suit.

However, with President Bush ignoring the ruling of the WTO we cannot currently expect them to fall over backwards to assist us with our problems, especially since we are behaving like petulant children in regards to their online gambling bill. We don’t like their answer, so we will just ignore them.

With Clinton in office however, we can assume that she will abide by their ruling and work to regulate online gambling, which would put us in a very different position with the WTO. This is the closest anyone has come to speaking publicly about online gambling in this race since Ron Paul said he would make it legal.




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