[lbo-talk] Obama on NAFTA

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 19 06:54:10 PDT 2008


[hmm, I thought Max said the Goolsbee story was bullshit - also from The Note]

Obama adds a new wrinkle to his personal trade wars (was Austan Goolsbee right?). In an interview, "the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA," Fortune's Nina Easton writes. " 'Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified,' he conceded, after I reminded him that he had called NAFTA 'devastating' and 'a big mistake.' "



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