Filed under: 2008 elections, Barack Obama, United States — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on February 29, 2008 @ 5:38 pm CET
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As Ed Morrissey points out, Obama’s campaign denied the allegations at first, but suddenly went remarkably silent after CTV named names of sources.
The person who, according to CTV, talked to the Canadians? Austin Goolsbee, Senior Economic Advisor to the Obama campaign.
I consider this to be a major issue for a variety of reasons. The first one is that Obama could very well be a lying, hypocritical populist (as I expect, but then a bit worse). The second one is that NAFTA is an incredibly important issue: withdrawing from it will create a lot of trouble. The third one is that Obama’s anti-NAFTA rhetoric is harmful, because he aligns himself with the anti-globalization far-left.
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1 Chris
March 1, 2008 @ 12:23 am CETOoops!
2 Samuel Bell
March 2, 2008 @ 2:04 am CETOH COURSE HE’S LYING.Talk about getting caught with your hand in the international trade cookie jar. The real questions: WHERE IS THE AMERICAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA?Why are they not covering this–except as a little ‘aside’–like it’s a little tidbit not a huge blanking comet. Obama’s campaign manager said Clinton’s campaign bringing this up "was tilting at windmills"