Last week, you'll remember, there was a big fuss in Seattle. This week all is quiet once again, except for the muffled sounds of candidates slinging mud at one another.
Every leading candidate is in favor of free trade.
All are also in favor of human rights and clean environments. And no one wants to give up American sovereignty to a faceless bureaucrats outside the United States, or even to faceless bureaucrats inside the United States for that matter. All candidates for all elective office hate faceless bureaucrats. All of which suggests that what happened in Seattle last week was a tiny pimple on the vast rear end of American politics. But hold on.