Exporting Jobs

(Fox News) - Hillary Clinton is blaming the Bush administration for the fate of an Indiana company that was bought by the Chinese government — which then laid off the Indiana employees and moved its defense technology work to China. Clinton ends the story by saying President Bush could have stopped it but didn't.

However, as the McClatchy newspapers points out the sale of that company was actually approved by her husband when he was president. The omission has not gone unnoticed.

Ed Dixon of Valparaiso, Indiana, writes to his local paper, "Hillary Clinton must have been hoping we Hoosiers have short memories."

Fred Sliger of Valparaiso, Indiana, writes, "They would have us believe Bush was behind this sale, when in fact the Clinton administration rubber stamped this along with the sale of numerous other high tech secrets to the Chinese."

The Clinton campaign responded today by saying that while President Clinton approved the company's sale to China, he prohibited the company and its jobs from being moved to China. That part of the deal was approved by the Bush administration eight years later.