[lbo-talk] Obama on NAFTA

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Thu Jun 19 16:39:15 PDT 2008


It could still be true. More like this and I may permanently swear off Democrats. I don't expect people to run on the left, especially Mr. B. Hussein Obama, but when they take back stuff they have said, and they weren't too liberal to begin with, I find it annoying.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> [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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