Letters to the Editor
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Stupid Politics for Stupid People
Anyone dumb enough to have belived either Obama or Clinton's pandering on this issue is probably dumb enough to belive the denials.
NAFTA will never be changed in a way that significantly preserves American manufacturing jobs. Under any President, ever.
Suck it up kids, the Twentieth Century is over and its not coming back.
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Why exactly isn't this in the news, I wonder?
If Hillary Clinton was being accused of this, it would be 24 hours a day of discussion about this issue. But Teflon man gets a "well, they really did it, but it's not a big deal." Nice.
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Read the story again--HRC IS being accused as well
They just haven't pinned a name on her alleged contact person.
And you know what? It wouldn't surprise me if someone associated with each campaign HAD talked to someone in the Canadian government at some point about distinguishing between the [i]tone [/i]of the anti-NAFTA rhetoric each has been pumping out in Ohio and the [i]content[/i]. It would be easier to hear more than was actually being said by Obama OR Clinton, if one was of a mind to.
That being then twisted around by some Conservative Party lacky to make both Democratic candidates look bad should not come us a shock.
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CTV no better than US media
Have you noticed that CTV made no effort to correct their own major errors?
1). Goolsbee is not on the Obama campaign staff. He's a volunteer on the Economic Advisory Committee
2). The Canadian Ambassador has said he never talked to anyone on the Obama campaign and the Chicago Canadian Consul is a long way down from an Ambassador. The Boston Turkish Consul works in a retail store and I've talked to him since he has visa applications and I've also worked on campaigns but I don't think either of us speak for anyone other than ourselves.
This is a phony story.
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America's hat
So we lose to Puerto Rico in international basketball and now Canada insinuates itself into American Presidential politics- so much for the Monroe Doctrine. Is there any shame that America has left to bear?
Seriously, NAFTA is a political football and all these two candidates are likely to do is try to address some of the environmental standard arbitrage that it allows. That is an issue however applicable to Mexican Maquiladoras not Canadian/American trade. Canadian environmental standards are better than our own. Perhaps that's what this politically tone deaf, not-even-full-time staffer was referring to when he decided to turn himself into a news story. Putz.
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free market fundamentalists show their true colors
another reason to believe the story is that it is consistent with both Goolsbee's and Obama's belief in free market, corporatist ideology. The only difference between Obama and Clinton (both Bill and Hillary) and the GOPers is that the Democrats put a human face on their corporatist program. It's the difference between getting shot in the head and being gut shot. There is a difference but you still end up mortally wounded. With the Democrats, democracy just takes a bit longer to bleed to death.
and I'm a life long Democrat!
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Isn't Obama supposed to be The One?
I thought that he alone was above sleazy politics. If he isn't, then why the hell should anyone vote for him?
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If this had been about Clinton
If this had truly been about Clinton (she tells canadian officials have complete freedon to talk) It would have been the headliner in Salon along with all the other FREE PRESS here in good ole USA.
There also would have been a lot more comments from the Obama supporters trying to hike up the rhetoric.
our northeast gets a lot of electricity from Canada also, but the coal used to fuel those generators of electricity comes from west Virginia where the coal companies are blowing the tops off the mountains and destroying the forest, polluting wells, Killing fish and wildlife, along with causing the people of that area to suffer a wide range of desease's caused by the chemicals that are released with this enterprise. Those that survive are having their homes and property washed away because of the way that this is being done. But of course this is a very rural area, not a big wealthy city, and just about the only way the destruction can be seen is from an airplane flying over it. So I guess no one will change anything.
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All I want to know.
The question still remains until today.
Did Obama told the OH voters one thing and told the Canadian Government the other?
Yes or No, please.
Can we trust your words or not?
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NOT A CHANCE .... but watch out Asia
The barricades around fortress America may be just rhetoric for now while the candidates cackle on with threats about NAFTA, but the stockade is coming. The strain on the middle class that is creating the Obama phenomenon will eventually demand that its income and jobs be protected.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/02/americas-china-quandary.html
There is "balance" in the U.S./ Canada trade relationship. There is none with Mexico and none with China. Confrontation with trading partners is the easy part. The relationships are massively complex and real solutions obscure. Running off in the heat of debate isn't the solution.
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Here's an article from a Canadian perspective:
http://www.thestar.com/News/USElection/article/308306
A Canadian friend writes: "John McCain is jumping on the Dem's faux pas with the NAFTA/protectionism comments. Points out how Canadian military supporting US efforts is tied to NAFTA. We aren't going to send our troops to die in treacherous Afghanistan without some sort of trade-off. America doesn't want to go into Afghanistan - that's why they sent the Canadians in (in large part... and our troops are badly in need of support... we're 2000 short on that front... and no other country is planning to step in so there's talk of having a Federal election again on account of Stephen Harper wanting to keep us there to 2012.
"Canadians don't want that, I think. This war is going nowhere. It's like fighting in the Grand Canyon... not a flat level surface like Iraq.) This is odd -- all these Democratic and Republican candidates talking about what Canadians do or do not want, or just say fuck'em all."