NAFTA SHAFTA

“This is a candidate who will do and say anything to get elected,” Mr Obama said about Hillary Clinton.
Could it be that Obama is just another politician and not the Next Messiah?

Obama publicly stated that he will NOT step out of NAFTA; the discussion is about ways to renegociate it on a set of issues.
So what is the beef of this story?

Jake, THANK YOU for having the guts to run this story and Obama’s consistent pattern of lying to the voting public. Obama simply will say ANYTHING to get elected.
Obama lied about opting out of NAFTA.
Obama lied about his 20-year relationship with Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko.
Obama lied about his muslim heritage and NEVER practicing Islam in schools in Indonesia.
Obama lied about his promise to accept public financing in the general election.
Obama lied about his support for single-payer universal healthcare coverage.
Obama lied about being a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Obama lied about his support of radical extremist groups – when the truth is he attends a church that promotes black supremacy and honors people such as Louis Farrahkan.
Wake up people and PLEASE STOP this charade!

Obama and his camp openly lied about this issue, now that the memo is out makes one wonder what else are they lying about just to ensure a win for their candidate.
It is really a shame because when this broke the MSM was ready to pin this on the Clinton side, they were so sure after speaking with the Canadians that is was another dirty trick by the Clinton camp to tarnish Obama.
Now we have people trying to blame the Canadians saying they are getting into the US elections, another side step to ignore the fact that Obama LIES!!!!

Canada is trying to STOP Obama because they want McCain. Don’t get played, America! Look deeper. TOO much depends on this.

Where are Hillary’s Tax returns? What about the donor lists? What about the WH records that STILL aren’t released?? She’s a manipulative, conniving beast that will do or say anything to get elected. Wake up people. With her it’s about POWER not PEOPLE. If she gets in the White House, her whole focus will be on getting revenge for those she feels have wronged her. The American people will left out in the cold.

People in Ohio do not know that Obama is talking out of bothe sides of his mouth–Again!

Clinton CALLED and SAID the SAME THINGS, according to this BOGUS report…They are trying to HANG BOTH Dems, to help McCain…

Look, Obama says quite clearly in his speeches and town hall meetings that NAFTA needs to be renegotiated to increase labor and environmental standards, for the good of all members of the agreement. He does not want to “put up a moat around the US” — trade is good, it just hasn’t been good for everyone.

All you paid, college, blogger students:
You haven’t been out in the real world. Real world doesn’t happen on the college campus, in your classrooms, or your dorms.
We live in an international world, now. Trade with other nations is essential to the US economy, specifically agriculture, which puts food in each one of your mouths.
Free trade is reality. NAFTA, GATT, and a host of other trade agreements will continue no matter who is elected President.
Revisiting is something you do at grandma’s house.
Don’t whine when your mouth is full, and welcome to reality.

I am still voting for Obama because I know that the Canadian government is a concervative government against Obama. They would very much like to see MCCAIN succeed and that’s why they are making up this bull. Canadians should be ashamed of their government. When there is a change agent out there, everything and everyone will do anything to stop them!

If this is the change or this is the new we can, then Nixon is a little baby compared to BO.

Ruh Roh!
Tsk, tsk, tsk….funny how LIES always come back to bite you in the behind, eh? Mr. Hope is a liar. Surprise, surprise.
NOW, it’s up to the MSM to do its job. :)

THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN IS ACCUSED OF DOING THE EXACT SAME THING AND SAYING THE SAME THING TO THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT.
Why is ABC reporting this as if the Obama camp is the only one that did it? ‘If the press does its job’, it should be reporting this in all fairness, because this is NOT an Obama story. The Canadian government threw BOTH Obama and Clinton under the bus.
Clinton supporters being all self-righteous and going ‘Ha ha ha Obama lied’ need to wake up and smell the coffee. Your candidate is accused of doing the exact same thing, so you’re just making yourselves sound ridiculous.

Now he’s changing his mind about troop withdrawal.
AP article from September 18, 2004, titled “Obama Willing to Support More Troops in Iraq” – excerpts follow:
***Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama said Saturday he would be willing to send more soldiers to Iraq if it is part of a strategy that the president and military leaders believe will stabilize the country and eventually allow America to withdraw.
“If that strategy made sense and would lead ultimately to the pullout of U.S. troops but in the short term required additional troop strength to protect those who are already on the ground, then that’s something I would support,” he said.
America cannot afford to withdraw immediately, said Obama, an early opponent of invading Iraq.
That would create more chaos in Iraq and make it “an extraordinary hotbed of terrorist activity,” he said at a meeting of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association. It would also damage America’s international prestige and amount to “a slap in the face” to the troops fighting there, he said.”*******

“But I also know that if we are, if folks are just letting kids drink eight sodas a day, which some parents do. Or you know, eat a bag of potato chips for lunch or Popeyes for breakfast — ya’ll have Popeyes down in Beaumont?
OBAMA SAYING “IF WE” MEANING BLACK PEOPLE.

Why is the Obama denial the by line instead of the story itself? Obama gets to rebutt things before they are reported. What do you people do phone him for permission before you publish anything.
The heading should be CAnadian governement memo confirms meeting with Obama advisor and NAFTA discussion.
Do your jobs yeah right!

Sen. Obama is a neophyte and has no business leading a nation with all the serious challenges we have. While there are many good things about him, his grasp of issues nationally and internationally leave much to be desired. While he creates a circus atmosphere full ofexcitement and energy he couldn’t at this point be the ring master.

Scrutiny, scrutiny, and more scrutiny is why Hillary Clinton will stay in the Democratic race until the convention in August.
Clinton campaigners believe that the beginning of prosecution by Fitzgerald at the Rezko trial (today) marks the type of scrutiny for Obama that the Clintons have already went through at the hands of Ken Starr.
All the tax dollars and time spent to dig up enough dirt to try and convict the Clintons…and nothing…
We shall see if the Obama camp is able to accomplish the same…
We shall see what we shall see…
By the way, vote Independent!

It’s the Conservative Canadian Government meddling to get McCain elected. Simple. Don’t buy it. You are being played, America!

I think the critical part of this story is not so much what the candidate’s positions are on NAFTA, but instead about Obama’s campaign saying one thing in public and another thing behind closed doors. Obama’s campaign is largely based on how he will transcend beyond “politics as usual” and will lead instead with hope, honesty and inspiration. Obama claims his strong suit is his ability to unite people with straight talk and exercise good judgment in spite of what is convenient within the realm of political positioning. If Obama’s platform is true, this closed door meeting between Obama’s top economic advisor Austan Goolsbee and Canadian officials is in direct contradiction with his primary campaign rhetoric. This meeting sounds like the usual political game playing that happens behind the scenes and he’s certainly not being a straight shooter to the American public. Both Obama and Clinton believe in globalization and free trade (both are far from being protectionists). They also agree that NAFTA has not been favorable to certain parts of America, particularly in places like Ohio where thousands of manufacturing jobs have been lost. The Canadian memo has no reason to embellish or misconstrue what was said in the meeting with Goolsbee. The American public and media has been so enthralled with Obama’s speeches that they are not realizing that although inspirational, Obama is still a politician and is not always doing what is “right”- he is doing what is convenient. It is worse that something like this would happen in Obama’s campaign compared to anyone’s else, because it seems that his whole campaign is based on his holier that image.

When a candidate speaks of dealings with forgeign countries, that country deserves the right to investigate and report to its people the stances being spoken of, when it effects a countries deals and economy! What part of that is interfering?
Obama’s camp said no meeting EVER took place – Not True now!
Obama’s camp now saids a low level ConGen wrote it – the low level ConGen is there to do just that, record the meeting between the ConGen Ambassador and anyone who visits the ConGen Ambassador, just as a sectretary does with Presidents of companies!
The article on AP says Goolsbee wasn’t there representing the Obama campaign, but was there representing the U of Chicago, then why did Goolsbee answer questions put forward about Obama’s position?
obama’s campaign attempted to distroy a highly respected reporter and news media that broke the story, now is it going to go after the Canadian Government and attempt to destroy it for reporting rightly so to its people about what is fact and not fiction being toted about that can affect them and their economy?
Obama proved something to the American people, “words are not just words when held accountable” but only Obama’s words to the American people are just words!

I can’t believe this is happening again, and the American people just seem so Blase about the way obama operates in the world. We already elected a President that had no real credentials and had no Foreign policy experience. But shucks, he was likable. This is not a popularity contest in High School competing for the popular lunch table!! He has so many unanswered controversies swirling around him. I keep seeing the American people just blindly walking towards the sun & the promise of hope with no real solutions or answers. He is lucky Senator Clinton got all the first questions in the debates as that left him the ability to say I agree with Senator Clinton umpteen times & not have to formulate an opinion or idea of his own. WAKE UP people we stared blindly into the sun before. REMEMBER, we are trying to find someone to get us away from that fire!!!

This does not surprise me one bit. Obama’s words are rarely consistent with his actions. He sells himself as a post partisan uniter, but his record is the most liberal in the Senate. He says the war in Iraq has distracted us from addressing Al Queda in Afghanistan, but has failed to hold a single substantive hearing as Chairman of the Senate Committee with oversight over NATO’s effort in Afghanistan. During the last debate, he justified his inaction against Al Queda by explaining that he has been busy running for president.
His priorities align with his ambition, and nothing else. He is a master at the art of “political positioning”—missing key votes, failing to be there when the going gets tough and then pointing the finger at others. He is an opportunist and a coward.

This must get substantial news coverage TODAY. The people of Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas need to hear about the unethical behavior of BO. Please do the right thing for our country — get this out today on all the air waves. It IS breaking news!!!

Great work Jack Tapper! I really like the fact that you have continued following this story and you are probably the first REAL journalist that have done investigative research and followed up with a story. Usually they throw a headline and then it disappears. So again thanks for keeping us informed!

Gee, I think Obama’s halo is slipping. Here’s what’s fearful about all this. He’s set himself up as something virtually pure and unaffected by the ways of Washington. He stated that one of the reasons he ran instead of waiting four to eight years is that he wouldn’t stay the same person that he is now. That suggests that somehow he would become tainted by the process, a telling implicit admission in and of itself. But, based on his outright false comments regarding his lack of contact with the Canadians over his NAFTA position, he didn’t have to wait even eight months for the taint to attach.
The bottom line is that based on this and other issues, Barak is no longer part of “We are the change we need.”

It’s about time the story went national! Obama is finally found out! People, spread this story everywhere. Tomorrow is an important day in this campaign and voters in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont need to know what a scoundrel he is!

I believe we can all agree the best way to keep NAFTA in place is to discredit Obama. So a day before election “revelation” should be no surprise.
Rather than blindly believe what somebody who likes NAFTA says somebody from the Obama campaign said. I am going to believe the Canadian Embassy.
On Thursday, the Canadian embassy in Washington issued a complete denial.
“At no time has any member of a presidential campaign called the Canadian ambassador or any official at the embassy to discuss NAFTA,” it said in a statement.

I’m curious! Have the Clintons released any of their tax returns since leaving the White House?

Geoff in RI wrote:
“To Nobody’s Fool.
The link to the AP story on which the story is based states that the AP reporter has the actual memo. Not hearsay, not innuendo.”
Geoff:
The memo is a summary written by the Canadian offical summarizing HIS RECOLLECTION of the conversation. That is not equivalent to a memo from the Obama campaign stating a position.
Your confusion is understandable considering the inflammatory way this has all be “reported”.

Obama is a product of the corrupt Chicago Machine. Its interesting how Obama in his debates said I was part of the ethics reform committee to look at shady senators and lobbyists, then he said I don’t believe in deals being made behind doors. I want all deals on the table infront of the American people.
This is just another shady deal by a shady chicago politician. Hillary had her Whitewater scandal Obama is getting the Rezko scandal. There are more and more things I am learning about Obama that really makes me question if he was just a made up figure the media helped rise up in popularity. This guy is full of contradictions and false claims/statements.
This man is a product of Chicago which is notorious for being corrupt and doing business with sleazy characters. Its interesting how the MSM and Drudge are still trying to push hillary out and protecting Obama and the public from all of these scandals. I just hope he is ready for the “527 republican machine” they will not leave a stone unturned and this NAFTA/SHAFTA thing plus Rezko/Farrakhan will all be tied into national ad campaign. I just say good luck Obama trying to win all the RED states you won. You need to pray to GOD if you get the nomination that you will actually earn a single vote from the Hillary campaign. The Hispanics/ the Hillary voters will never endorse him. Good Luck Barack H. Obama you’r Halo is fading and this Yes we Can speeches are about to be retired…You have ties to some of the most radical people in the US and nobody is going to just ignore that.

Hillary will release her tax return on April 15th

Obama’s ship is sailing against the wind and the water density is like TAR. I hope that makes sense. The media has given Obama a smooth sail faaar away from scandals. But when the GOP attack machine comes out and enlighten the voters on national ad campaigns about NAFTA/REZKO scandals his ship and the water will feel like tar and against the wind. It easy to ignore scandals when the CNN,FOX,MSNBC just ignore all his faults. Somewhere in the RNC HQ, they are salivating after Obama, and the election will go to mccain.
Thanks Jack for atleast keeping this alive and scrutinizing all candidates no matter what.

Hillary will release her tax return on April 15th.
2028.

So much misinformation, so little time . . .
When Senator Obama said “it never happened” he was referring to the fact that no one from his campaign told Canadian officials anything about NAFTA that contradicted the positions he shared at the Ohio debate. That is not the same as sayng “there was no conversation”.
Now the real question is – why is this news?
Who benefits from this “story” being reported?
Even if everything in the “summary” by the Canadian official were true, what does it prove?
Why is the “narrative” about Senator Obama getting soft news coverage being peddled when he has dealt with one smear after another from “day 1″ of this campaign? (Slush fund, drug dealer, muslim, unpatriotic, ambitious kindegartner, plagiarism, race card, cult leader, and I could go on and on.)
This campaign will be won or loss on it’s merits, and Senator Obama has run a better campaign and is a better candidate than Senator Clinton.
Period.

Does the Clinton Camp forget, that CTV also mentioned that Hillary’s campaign did the same thing? I believe the press should also mention that fact, as it was also mentioned in the CTV report.

Obama-YIKES, Senator Clinton has not released her tax returns. On Sunday, Howard Wolfson indicated they would be released April 15, 2008. Why do you think it is that she doesn’t want to release them?

If this is a PREVIEW of how Obama is going to be as a President of USA and the leader of the world, I would take a few steps back and really worry about how he would handle world politics/economics/war against Al qaida.
This just tells me he is a rookie and needs more experience. Just b/c you surround yourself with Competent people does not make up for the fact that you lack knowledge and experience. You cannot depend on Economics professors, and advisor’s to make the final call for all your decision I just hope he won’t call this scandal a ‘bone headed mistake’ we are getting too many of them lately from the Obama camp.

Dear Clear Choice,
There is no need for me to “protect” Senator Obama. However, there is a GREAT NEED to refute the misinformation that floats around the internet as fact.
Senator Clinton hasn’t released her 2006 Tax returns which are already complete and available. Nice try with the old “bait and switch” technique in referencing the 2007 taxes. What “things” would she have to go through to release her 2006 taxes? She has no trouble at all releasing Senator Obama’s kindergarten records and photos, so what’s the hold up?
And in terms of Senator Obama and the Iraq war, you can say what you want, but the fact is – Senator Obama was AGAINST the war and Senator Clinton was FOR the war.
Whether or not Senator Obama was in the U.S. Senate, Illinois legislature, or in the backyard at his cousin’s house, it is a documented fac that he opposed the war. And he was right. Nothing you can say is gonna change it.
We do agree on one thing however . . . America has a clear choice . . . here’s hoping they make the right call.
Obama ’08

When is Obama going to release all his earmarks so we can see how much pork went to his Chicago backers?

Yes, Yes, Yes we can!! Select a candidate of substance. Hillary 2008
This and the Rezko deal are at least 2 reasons Dems have to slow down and make sure Obama is vetted before we run him against McCain or a possible surprise Huckabee.
The Republicans will chew Obama up and spit him out as soon as the press gets bored with the same old same old speeches.
Obama’s latest misleading statement regarding Hillary’s Iraq vote which he did NOT have to make is that Hillary did not give them time for diplomacy. Hillary did not give them time? What kind of idiots believe that the length of diplomacy was up to Hillary? Bush is the president and he is the person that did not give diplomacy nor the people looking for WMD’s time.
Obama’s supporters Ted Kennedy and John Kerry both saw the same intelligence Hillary did and they voted the same as her. Does Obama think they are old and incompetant as well?

Dear Clear Choice,
Sadly I do listen, thus I keep hearing misninformation comming from you.
I’m glad you brought up that Iraq quote for Senator Obama, because as usual, you left the most important part out:
“What would I have done? I don’t know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.”
You can read a complete Fact Check debunking this much touted Clinton campaign inaccuracy here:
P.S. Did you say something about waffling? Isn’t Senator Clinton the one who is for/against Driver’s licenses for undocumented workers, for/against NAFTA, for/against seating the Florida and Michigan delegates, for/against lobbyists (cause they are people too), for/against negative campaigning . . .

Dear tiredofit,
You wrote:
“Obama’s supporters Ted Kennedy and John Kerry both saw the same intelligence Hillary did and they voted the same as her. Does Obama think they are old and incompetant as well?”
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First of all Ted Kennedy DID NOT vote to authorize the Iraq war.
Second of all Senator Clinton could give time for diplomacy by not voting for the war.
Lastly Senator Clinton has WAY MORE BAGGAGE in the scandal department. So let’s not go there, okay?
P.S. John Kerry knows how to admit a mistake and Senator Clinton doesn’t, just like George W. Bush.

Let me see…
Do I believe the folks who gave us David Axelrod and the Obama campaign?
Or, do I believe the folks who gave us the Possum Lodge and Red Green?
What say you, eh?

Obama ads running in Ohio right now are attacking Clinton for supporting NAFTA. The ads promise Obama has never supported NAFTA and that he will end it. Sounds like Mr. Obama is a bit confused on the issues—which seems to be a recurring trend.
I applaud you, Mr. Tapper, for refusing to join the media circus that is entirely too fixated on Barak Obama. It’s refreshing to know that there is at least one member of the media who isn’t ready and willing to show his bias.

Ken wrote:
“Or, do I believe the folks who gave us the Possum Lodge and Red Green?”
Ken, are you saying that some obscure Canandian consulate official in Chicago was responsible for an obscure Canadian sitcom and that we should therefore trust him?
If not, please elaborate….

March 3, 2008 Part of the memo
In his closing section of the memo, DeMora said when Rioux “asked whether we could expect to hear more of this as the elections progressed, Goolsbee thought not. In fact, he mentioned that going forward the Obama camp was going to be careful to send the appropriate message without coming off too protectionist.
“As Obama continues to court the economic populist vote, particularly in upcoming contests like Ohio, we are likely to see a continuation of some of the messaging that hasn’t played in Canada’s favour but this should continue to be viewed in the context in which it is delivered.”
It appears as if once the Obama campaign believes that once it gets out of Ohio and can stop “courting” the economic populist vote they will be able to tone down their rhetoric. Does this statement mean Obama believes Ohioians are suckers or chumps that can be played like fools with a few sweet sounding words?

“It appears as if once the Obama campaign believes that once it gets out of Ohio and can stop “courting” the economic populist vote they will be able to tone down their rhetoric. ”
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Well, if someone types it up, it has to be true, right?

I think this part of the story perfectly encapsulates exactly what the Obama campaign is about:
“The Obama campaign over the weekend falsely claimed the CTV story had been ‘retracted.’ It has not.”

tiredofit, you wrote: “Bush is the president and he is the person that did not give diplomacy nor the people looking for WMD’s time.”
Saddam Hussein was given TWELVE YEARS to fess up as to whether he still had WMDs or not. How much more time should we have given him? Also, if you recall (or have selectively chosen to forget), several of the leading Democrats said back in 1998 (when Congress gave President Clinton the authorization for regime change in Iraq) that Saddam Hussein would have nuclear weapons in five years. Let see…1998 plus 5 years…that would put it at 2003. If the Democrats HAD NOT LIED back in 1998, maybe we could have given Saddam Hussein a few more years. But we didn’t know that THEY LIED until we actually went into Iraq. Only then did we know that Saddam Hussein mislead his neighbors and the rest of the world. But what if he had nuclear weapons in 2003 and we hadn’t invaded Iraq. The only way we would have known was when they were used. And then you guys would have been all over President Bush for not done more to rid Iraq of its WMDs.

At least Canada is doing what the MSM have not done this year; exposing Barack Obama and not letting him brush this little affair away.
Obama’s associates in Chicago are piranhas, and they might have helped him in Chicago with finances but now they are all biting him in the butt.
I call it KARMA baby! what goes around comes around.

If OBama voted for this why are the African American’s voting for him? They are the majority who have subprime loans and now because of Obama they are getting the shaft….thanks for the savagepolitics link…just follow the money and you know exactly where obama stands…
On February 10, 2005, Obama voted in favor of the passage of the misnamed Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 which seriously hampers the rights of ordinary citizens to challenge corporations. Senators Biden, Boxer, Byrd, Clinton, Corzine, Durbin, Feingold, Kerry Leah, Reid and 16 other democrats voted against it.

tiredofit, the Republicans didn’t go after Hillary Clinton. They went after President Clinton. It is true that during Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation some things about Hillary came up. But most of those that did were not within the scope of his investigation. So there are a lot of Hillary’s questionable dealings that have never been investigated. But rest assured that they will come up in the general election should she win the nomination. In fact you can already read about many of these on the Internet.

Yes, Barry I do know, I was trying to make a point that people are voting for someone they don’t know anything about. They are voting because he is black. I was just making a point…I guess they should think twice about voting for him knowing he is one of candidates who is giving them the shaft on sub prime loans….

WASHINGTON – U.S. Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has been trying to burnish his foreign policy credentials.
So it didn’t help when he called Canada’s leader a “president” during a debate Tuesday in Chicago.
Asked what he’d do about the North American trade deal, Obama said it needs changes, so he’d “immediately call the president of Mexico (and) the president of Canada.”
President of Canada.
even GW Bush is laughing at Obama.

subprime,
African Americans are voting for Barack Obama for the same reason that other Americans are – because he is the best candidate!
Obama ’08

It is comical to watch this concerted effort to change the subject from Hillary Clinton’s FLIP FLOP on NAFTA to whether or not an Obama aide had talks with someone from Canada.
None of this changes the fact that when Senator Clinton was co-president the first time, she was for NAFTA. And now she conveniently says she was always against it. THAT is the story of NAFTA . . . everything else is just carefully orchestrated smoke and mirrors.

Jeff wrote: “Obama is not Jesus.”
Thanks for the insight Jeff.
This just in . . .
Hillary Clinton is not Mother Teresa either.

Obama reminds me of Walt Whitman,
“Whitman called ”Leaves of Grass” ”the new Bible.” He had a messianic view of himself as poetic Answerer come to heal American society. By absorbing and magnifying his culture’s best aspects, he believed his poetry could help unify a nation fractured by class conflicts, shady politics, and racial tensions. The poet, he wrote in his preface, ”is the equalizer of his age and land. . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking.” He offered a recipe for healing: ”This is what you shall do . . . read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life.”

I posted this comment and question earlier and have not yet seen a non-frivolous response:
“I’m not sure why those latching onto this story assume that Barack Obama is ‘lying.’ Is it not equally possible, or even probable, that the author of the memo in question is himself lying, exaggerating, or simply inaccurately reporting the conversation between Austan Goolsbee and the Canadian consulate official in Chicago?”
Now, don’t get me wrong: I’ve seen enough of this blog to realize that it’s a right-wing blog masquerading as objective commentary on a “mainstream media” website. But for just a moment, take a step back from the talking points most of you parrot and seriously consider the question I have posed.
I’d wager that, at this point, this “story” carries no more water than even the NYT’s McCain-Iseman story.

I am getting plenty sick and tired of Obama one speech. His greatest line is he did not support the war. Oh well, that is in the past and can’t be changed. What is he going to do in the future? That is the question. Obama get out.
GO HILLARY you are the WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So much for a new chapter in American history.
Barack is gone.
Go Hillary!

After reading all of these responses, I’m now convinced all of you Obamabots have drank the koolaid b/c you sound like mindless idiots.
I was considering voting for Obama, although I found the “yes we can” slogans disconcerting & fainting women at his rallies creepy. I went to his rally in Houston but I did not hear anything of substance come out of his mouth. I felt like I was at a pop concert with screaming dreamy eyed adolescents.
Then came the smears against Senator Clinton, the race baiting, the many close ties he has to extremists, the fiction in his autobiography, his shady dealings with Rezko & now, he’ caught red handed in a blatant lie.
As others have pointed out, what makes this SO significant is the fact that he is touting himself as the new kind of politician; he promises a change to the status qou blah blah blah. But in reality, he’s just another smooth talking politician who will say anything he thinks people want to hear.
Personally, I think he’s dangerous. He has caused strife & division within the Democratic party, yet claims he will unify the country? HA HA HA
He has arrogantly proclaimed that his supporters won’t vote for Hilary, but thinks that hers wil vote for him in the general election. I have voted Democrat since Bill Clinton’s first term.
Tomorrow I’m going to vote for Hilary. If he ends up with the nomination, I will have to follow my conscience and vote for Mccain in November. Much to his (and the rest of the Democratic party’s), dismay, I think most Hilary supporters will do the same.
Stay tuned b/c he’ll be swiftboated by the GOP before the first debate. They will expose everything that most of the media is ignoring.

GoHillary: I don’t know a single Obama supporter who won’t go for McCain. Let’s give it to the American press corps: in the Bush/Gore election years they reported on trivia and chased after scandals, so they could claim to be first on the story. In this primary season, we’ve seen nothing but the same. Another 100 years in Iraq? No problem. A human rights record slightly below Syria’s? No problem. A deficit built up in 8 years that our grandchildren will be paying off, instead of going to college? No problem. People dying the wealthiest nation in the world because they can’t get health care? No problem. A memo already discredited by the Canadian government, now that’s BIG news.

Obama says he’s going to bring people both sides together but where is the evidence of that in his past behavior?
What stands out in his brief Senate career is his 100% “most liberal” voting record, not a history of fighting across party lines to get legislation passed as he implies in speech after speech. He wasn’t part of the 2005 “Gang of 14″ bipartisan coalition that sought to break the logjam on judicial nominations, though the other freshman Illinois senator and John McCain (who led them) both were. He did support the bipartisan effort to get an immigration bill last year, winning a minor plaudit from McCain, but that wasn’t something the ‘other side’ supported at all, and unlike uber partisan, divisive Sen. Edward Kennedy, he didn’t work closely with the White House.
Where’s the beef? Where’s the proof that Obama will finally begin to DO what McCain has been doing for 25 years? John McCain and Russ Feingold used to joke that they were the only ones who ate alone in the senate cafateria. I doubt Barak Obama has ever been anywhere but at the middle of the pack.

Why has CTV disrupted the link to the FIRST page of their original story?
On that page there was one small paragraph stating that the Clinton campaign had ALSO contacted the Canadian Embassy.
Since most legitimate news organizations are well aware that the present Canadian Government wants Hillary to win the Nomination, it does seem a bit odd that that paragraph didn’t catch the eye of even one Reporter.
Well, it probably did. She just scared everyone off with her, “The media is being unfair. They have no right to tell the American Public the truth about me.”