I'm a little concerned that Obama's financial supporters have a strong protectionist bent. I don't know what Obama himself thinks about free trade, I guess he is personally a realist. But he is relying on money from the anti-free trade left.

All the Democrats in recent years have been free trade advocates: Bill & Hillary, Al Gore, John Kerry, Lieberman, even John Edwards understands we have to trade.

We are in a hot competition with the Chinese to establish trade relations in Latin America. Recently the House of Representatives scuttled a trade deal with Columbia, a country we have good relations with. Terrible.

I am very pro-Union. But a lot of well-meaning people in the Union movement have stuck with an unrealistic anti-trade stance. I trust the Democrats to negotiate better deals in regard to labor standards and the environment, and they have to keep pushing it.