The Wal-Mart Videos

Hillary Clinton has, for obvious reasons, tried to distance herself from her time on the board of Wal-Mart, the Arkansas company that, for many Democratic voters, emblematizes globalization and all those jobs that were shipped overseas that the candidates keep talking about.

While Wal-Mart won’t release the minutes from Clinton’s five and a half years of board meetings, more and more video footage is emerging that could be politically damaging. The Center for Public Integrity just released a video (warning: Windows Media) that shows Clinton saying “I am so proud of this company and everything that it represents.” There’s a negative ad waiting to happen.

Much of this was brought to light earlier by ABC News, in the package below: