In Canada, Clinton Co-Chair/Fundraiser Downplays Candidate’s NAFTA Rhetoric

I would make a comment to all those Hillary people…
I told you so… is all that comes to mind. Do your homework.

I am so upset. I’ve been reading about the Peter Paul story all day long and now this. Why won’t anyone answer my questions about Peter Paul. Who is he?

Kingston, its at least two seperate events. Second of all, its a single finger at both events. The second finger only appears close to the first one as its being lowered.
It is however the CROWD REACTION and then Obama’s reaction that tells the story in the videos not the still shots.
The first time I saw the first video from one angle I though it was nothing until the crowd reacted and then he reacted. Then I watched it agian.
Then I saw it from a different angle and saw another video of a seperate event at exactly the same time in his speech doing the same thing. it is 100% undeniable. He is giving Hillary Clinton the finger like a school child.
Perhaps the two finger photo is from a third event where he is trying to cover his blatent juvenile unpresidential actions.
He needs to be held accountable for this. Jake knows that the same speech is given several times a day. one photo of him using two fingers to scratch his face is not proof of anyting.
Watch the undeniable video on The Swamp blog. The LA times video is a different event.

I agree the Democrat can not winthe white house with Obama as the nominee.
100% or I wouldn’t be doing this.
He is unelectable and unpresidential. The video of him giving Hillary the finger at one speech is unmistakable and absolutely clear. The fact that he did it at at least one other speech at the same moment is proof.
All the republicans need to do is make a video out of this footage and he won’t be elected. The list of reasons of why he is unelectable grows longer every day.
If Democrats are dumb enough to nominate him, they deserve to lose, and they will.

S.B,
Why can’t you get a life? Why can’t you act your age? It’s so pitiable the extent you and your fellow Hillary supporters have degenerated. So it has gone to to the extent that obama can’t even scratch his face? It’s so disgusting the level that american politics has reached. It is now a race to the bottom.
I am now more convinced than ever that we need a change and we need it urgently! May God save America!

NO……………………..
More lies. More lies. I can’t believe I stood up for her all this months.

DISAPPOINTED CLINTON SUPPORTERS…FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA…PLEASE THROW YOUR SUPPORT BEHIND SEN. OBAMA…WE CANNOT HAVE ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF THIS MESS…
OBAMA ’08

Obama will never be elected President. John McCain will.
He is at least qualified enough and mature enough for the job.
Obama is unelectable.

Our Founding Fathers never tried to build this contry based on spin.
But they built this country based on the principles of integrity, truthfullness, honesty and honor.
Hillary Clinton is just destroying this lagacy that has brought this country dso far.

I am through with this primary. I for one will be voting for McCain in the fall!!! All of you Obama supporters better get your act together and make it to the polls in November, although I don’t think it will help. As Marrow would say!!! “Good Luck and Good Night”

I will no longer fight for Hillary. Enough is enough.

Proof of what? The majority of our oil comes from Canada, not the middle east. They do have some clout.
That said, if wages are what cause the jobs to go elsewhere and product manufacturing to diminish, THAT is what you focus on the negotiation.
You want to beat Canada? That’s easy. Go buy some canadian-made furniture (say a TV table). The workmanship is simply terrible. It looks like the kind of cars the US manufactured during the years of wide open pot smoking at work in the last seventies. So beat the Canadians the old fashioned way: BETTER QUALITY PRODUCT.
A NAFTA renegotiation doesn’t cut equally for all partners. That’s why we have to have it.
But if you really want to chase a real issue, figure out how to finance the restart of manufacturing. Look at the enormous sums going into software development and computer systems. We have to figure out how to do that for other kinds of products. Nail this to the masthead at work:
NO PRODUCT. NO MARKET. NO SALES. NO PAY.
Which one do you want to fix first?

Obama has all of you bambozzled!!! I fear what this country will be like in 4 Years, but you know what if this is what the new generation wants, then they can have him!!! They are the ones who are going to have to pay when he makes this country worse than what George Bush made it!!! Beware of double speak from Obama, It is happening, they media and his followers, just don’t want to listen.

AMERICANS NEED T WAKE UP
we need to take care of our nation 1st before we start all this trade business
with other countries.
GROWING PRESSURE NEEDS TO BE PUT ON OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PUT THEIR FEET DOWN
ON THE NECKS OF THESE AMERICANS WHO WERE BIRTH HERE (The greatest Free nation)
but want to take their business elsewhere
NOT FAIR. NAFTA SUCKS

OMG-I just can take this anymore I just can sit and take this abuse from this women. Bill an d Hillary represents whats wrong with America. How can any decent American go out and support this women who is supporting NAFTA. If you care about this or about others and the future of this great nation do not vote for the Clintons. Nafta will ruin this nation. Please I urge you not to fall for this trap. Vote No on Nafta

Don’t worry if Hillary doesn’t get the nom, she will be back in 2012, because Obama will be defeated in November! If he isn’t this country will be bombed for sure. Even Hamas wants to see him as President. They have already spouted validation by USA because of Carter’s visit. Remember Obama is the one who wants to talk to all of these terroist leaders without preconditions. God Help Us “Bible Thumping, Gun Toting Small Town Bitter Folk” for caring about this country!!!

Folks,
prepare for Hillary’s hysterical cackle if a reporter dares to question her on this.
Couldn’t Chelsea simply say: mom, I really get the feeling America simply doesn’t want you. No, they don’t like you, mom. Come on now, let’s go home.
And after that I hope we will fight on the ISSUES. Things will become a lot clearer, I look forward to that. Democrats versus Republicans.

No surprise. Does any body really believe HRC would touch NAFTA? Once again, if she were elected the most she would do is appoint a commission of has beens to “study” the issue.

H. Aslan Aslani Far-Actually I am a Democrat, have been voting for 25+ years, and have never voted republican. I will vote republican this year!
I do not believe in Obama’s policies, especially those pertaining to terrorist nations. I can see right through Obama. He is a politician just like all the rest. I think he has fooled many people into believing there will be change. We’ll see in 4 years.

This is what is wrong with Obama’s supporters and why alot, alot of democrats in New Jersey are voting for Mccain. Hillary Clinton spent her entire life fighting for the democratic party, it’s principles. Because of her stance for the party she has been attacked by the opposition for 30 years! It is one thing to back Obama who has done NOTHING for democrats or independents or for that matter Republicans! But the lack of respect, out of “new voters” who dont realize Obama is a bag full of hot air that we seen in this country over and over again! A “politician” who was gladly used so the liberal wing of the party can beat the moderate wing of the party and regain power! Whats new about Obama look at the people who have endorsed him, they will be the people controlling Obama – for this moderate democrat – NO THANK YOU! what was great about the Clinton’s and why so many of these clowns hate her is that she was controlled by no one! Moderate democrats for Mccain! Send the Obama back to Wright, Ayers and Rezko – maybe they can toughen him up!

Lisa: If that is the case, then I would hope you will also support him when he gets the nomination…I can understand your being skeptical…especially after 7+ years of lies and deceit…but I do, truly believe that he will do what is best for the country, and that, at the very least, as a constitutional law professor, that he will restore the rights absconded by this Administration. He alone won’t fix the economy or the crisis in Iraq — just as no president will, but all the help is needed to try and bring about a colossal change…I hope you are willing to do that much…if you think it is a leap of faith…then so be it, but it’s worth that leap, because we already know what the alternative — a 3rd Bush presidency will bring.

If Obama wants to fix American politics, he should fix his home town – Chicago first, the biggest politcal scandal just found right now….
For more than 17 years, he did nothing to fix it but dreaming of running US president…

Everyone,
I was at Obama’s town hall forum in Raleigh. I had a very good seat and could tell exactly what he was doing. We (the crowd) were cheering because he was talking about Hillary’s manipulation. No one was cheering because he put up his middle finger. HE WAS SCRATCHING HIS FACE!! Do you really think that someone running for the presidency of the United States would be crass enough to, first of all, put up his middle finger and second of all, do it with at least 100 cameras in his face??? Really?? At this point it seems as if people who are anti-Obama have stooped to the level of actually making up bull in order to support their distorted view of him. At least Hillary has done enough stuff to support our antipathy towards her. We don’t have to resort to creating stories.

Vanessa, just so you can learn something…Reich has been bashing Hillary for the past 6 months and sucking up to Obama. You think he wants a job? Bill CLinton replaced him during his second administration. Also, Hillary will win PA by at least 12 points. Trust me, I have worked on plenty of democratic primaries in PA. Obama will carry Philly but not by the wide margin Rendell did to win the Governorship (Northeast and South Philly support Clinton). The suburbs currently are about even. Other than those 5 counties Hillary beats him everywhere else the other 68 counties in the State! Obama’s numbers are not going above 42/44% – 56 – 44, Obama can right off Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida = Good Luck!

Good luck crossing that bridge without alot of older Democrats!

FACT: SINCE SUPER TUESDAY — THE SUPERDELEGATE TALLY IS:
CLINTON: -2
OBAMA: +77

I guess we should change Clinton’s Campaign Bus from SOLUTIONS EXPRESS to DOUBLE SPEAK EXPRESS. The Clinton’s sold the rights of workers & the Unions in America for $800,000 in 2005 to Columbia. Bush sells America to the Chinese for $12b each month to fight Cheyenne’s /Halliburton’s war in Iraq and Mark Penn tried to continue Clinton’s plan in Colombia for 2009 until they got exposed. Double speak is all I can say. America is not for sale. No Vote for Bill/Hillary in 2008/2009. Enough is enough.

Lisa, get yourself some learnin’ girl. Obama has unequivocally said many times that he will not talk to Hamas and he said Carter’s visit was not a good idea. Sorry if that’s not good enough for you. Perhaps he should wear two American flag lapel pins – because using your tortured logic, he’d be twice as patriotic as the rest of us…and with George W. Bush as an “example,” we all need a president that’s super-duper patriot dude.

Aslani -Far – I know he is outspending her 3 to 1. Thats the only one or three you will see! Unless it’s a 13 point loss! After that debate performance? Good Luck!

What to expect (the inconvenient truth?):
Sure, people from different walks of life may have different agendas, prefer different approaches and identify with different personal styles. Ideally, our democratically elected leader should reflect all these differences in his/her balanced judgments. In reality, however, we cannot expect our leader to be God Almighty. Anyone who claims to be capable of solving all the problems at a blink of the eye (a decision on day one or at 3:00 am without consultation with the Congress) must be joking, to say the least.
Sadly, this kind of claims seems to win “moment-by-moment” arguments under varying political climates. However, there is a serious flip side of this PLEASING-ALL kind of claims. What will happen after the election, when we ordinary citizens no longer hold the voting power to exert any significant “political threat”? I bet that we will no longer be the primary source of urgency in the mind of this kind of president. Instead, there would be plenty of powerful groups, both domestically and internationally, that are savvy to put pressure on our president for their special interests.
I would love to support a female president. However, Hillary’s behaviors and the behaviors of Bill Clinton, throughout 2008 campaign strike me with a scary vision. Hillary’s demonstrated “capability” to deal with so many issues in such moment-by-moment, yet authoritarian, manner truly scares me. I simply cannot predict whom she will try to please at one moment and whom she wants to trash the next moment in the Oval Office.
Hillary’s problem is not simply a tactic issue. Rather it is a detrimental character flaw. Her character is better defined under the pressure of this presidential election, but has been in the brewing for a long time. Her “political” survival instincts have been cultivated and fueled by her sense of entitlement and establishment. She has become a natural when calculating and working the crowds. In fact, she has been in it for so long, she truly does not know what truth is anymore. Sadly, in this process, she also lost her humility and dignity. It is sad to see how the CLINTON legacy is diminished by this campaign.
At the end of the day, a president may not solve every single issue on the table. That is a realistic expectation. However, this is a much less scary scenario than having a president such as Hillary who calculates us simply as a political risk factor. Hillary’s tactics are not only elitist and shrewd, but also “old”. She and her bunch of advisers are so out of touch of today’s world, they even did not seem to know that video cameras can immortalize history so that her attempts to re-write history or campaign rhetoric would backfire. That is not funny. American people are much more intelligent than that and deserve much better.
For a nation that is known to be God-fearing and forward-looking, Obama’s courage to restrain from making ludicrous moment-by-moment promises is refreshing. His unique gift to put things into perspectives will guard our nation from rushing into traps or missing golden opportunities. His reliance on ordinary citizens throughout his campaign represents NEW Politics that offers a chance to change the COURSE of America towards a better future.

Newsweek poll is based on 588 people and Gallup poll is based on >1000, those two polls were conducted in the same period time (4/17), so which one did you believe??
The answer is: of course, the one you like to believe…..

Newsweek – the pro Obama (msnbc) magazine is in direct contrast with Gallup and Rasmussen who showed a tightening of the Race over the same days polled – with gallup showing Clinton AHEAD in yesterdays polling alone. I would trust the pollsters who do it everyday over the monthly poll by newsweek shopped out to college kids! But what do I know? I guess your well versed in newsweeks methodology! Dont you Obama people understand politics? Newsweek has 10 polls done and they pick the poll that meets their agenda – Adults under 32 dont watch cable news, dont read magazines Obama makes these people more money by increasing audience size! Its all about MONEY! -

Jerome Zaccaro,
Sorry to remind you: Obama has similar lobbyists backing him and fundraising for him….

The same can be said about Chris Matthews, that goober that follows and occasionally is on NFL games etc – Their ratings where in the tubes with the rest of these Obama suck ups! They need the under 35 TV Ratings and Obama was the way for them to get it. The funny part is maybe ABC realizes give them the kids, there is enough adults who want a true fair and balanced! Na- they want Oprah broadcasting from the guest quarters!

Historically, if Hillary leaded or tied poll before state primary, she always won…
Why? Because a lot of her supporters are low or middle income people which didn’t have chance to be picked as polling sample…
More is that Hillary alway won over late deciders since they have doubt about obama and didn’t fall in love with him at first glance…

But the more troublesome question I have is one the Clinton campaign has repeatedly refused to answer ever since we talked to two attendees of that 1993 meeting in which then-First Lady Clinton was telling businesswomen NAFTA would be good for the country and the economy.
If “Hillary Clinton was personally opposed to NAFTA” at the time, as her campaign now claims, why was she telling the American people that it was good for the economy?
Flip Flop Queen .Like I said she has
800,000 reasons to change her mind like i always did not like NAFTA.
hey hill your pants are on fire!!!

Hillary Adds Three Superdelegates Today
Former New Jersey Governors Jim Florio and Brendan Byrne pledged their support to Hillary Clinton today, after being chosen Thursday as add-on superdelegates. Their show of support comes the same day US Rep. Betty Sutton announced she too would support Clinton as a superdelegate.
“I am grateful for the support of both former New Jersey governors Byrne and Florio, as well as Rep. Sutton,” Clinton said. “Together, with their support and millions of others, we will deliver health care to every American, jumpstart the economy, and turn our great country around. Our campaign is experiencing great momentum.”
Brendan Byrne served as the 47th Governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982 and co-writes a weekly column with his successor Thomas Kean on state and national public affairs. James Florio was the first Italian American governor of New Jersey, serving from 1990 to 1994.
Rep. Sutton served eight years in the Ohio State House prior to being elected to represent Ohio’s 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. Before being elected to Congress, she worked as a labor attorney fighting for the rights of Ohio’s workers

Her husband took 800,000 dollars from Columbia. I don’t see her sending it back. What does that tell you? Smarter people know where their vote should go.
Others who support her are blind.

Bishop said:
“Clinton Picked up three supers today also but we didn’t get to here about hers two former GOV. from NJ.she picked up 3 last week . and she is still 5 point ahead of Obama in Pa.”
So, that’s Obama: 65 to Clinton’s 5 since Super Tuesday!!
And she needs double digits, at least mid- to high-teens for PA to make any positive impact for her. So, 5 points might as well be nothing!
Hillabeans is TOAST!!!
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

Everybody knows that Hillary is for NAFTA in ODD numbered years and Hillary is against NAFTA in EVEN numbered years.

Like it’s a big surprise that Clinton has been lying about NAFTA? ANYONE with a brain has known this all along.
The saying use to be that there were 2 things in life you could count on. Death and Taxes….and now there has been another one added. A Clinton will lie.

Dog and eyes b closed.
People get tired of ol’ Hills for many reasons. This one o them. See Hills
shamelessly bashes her opponent for holding the same views that she holds.
Its Romneyesque. Hillary is both for and against NAFTA but at the same time can call out:
SHAME ON YOU.
So people are tired of this.

NAFTA will be changed regardless of who the Democratic nominee or the next Republican president is. So, as Barack Obama is currently whining about issues, let’s get on to an issue that Obama doesn’t say much about.
The truth is that Barack Obama is the most liberal of all liberal senators in the United States Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders rolled into one.
George McGovern was also a liberal, one that promised to get us out of war and weaken our miliary–like Obama.
Walter Mondale was also a liberal, one that promised to raise taxes–like Obama.
Michael Dukakis was also a liberal, one that promised a host of liberal domestic programs–like Obama.
And, Barack Obama, like the three Democratics who wriggled into the nomination and lost general elections that Democrats should have won, would lose in November.
The only reason that Barack Obama has made it this far without being totally destroyed is that the Republicans and the press have given him a relatively smooth ride so far.
In fact, the press deals with Barack Obama as if he were the liberal pope. All that is required of Obama is that he roll buzz words and phrases off like “getting past partisan politics,” or “getting down to issues,” or “believe in me,” and “change.”
The kid gloves that Obama has been handled with will come off as the Democratic convention and general election get closer. Hillary Clinton will not bow out until the last delegate and super delegate have cast their votes.
Damage control efforts to the typical angry and bitter Democrats will be in vain. Desperate calls for party unity will be too late and wasted effort. The sputter and stutter that we all saw in the Pennsylvania debate will become an Obama trademark. And the Democratic party will have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory once again.

The United States need not forget that it is slowly becoming dependent on other countries for raw materials; Canada is the backbone for American raw materials (i.e. natural resources, water, and oil). Does the Hillary or Obama really want to scrap NAFTA when it may mean more “jobs” for Americans, but it will also mean higher costs of raw materials and resources to produce those automobiles and other products? Who would then be the loser if NAFTA were scratched? Canada can surely take its business elsewhere. If Hillary or Obama decide that’s the way, we’re all in agreement up here in Canada! We’ll manage quite fine–good luck to you guys!

Forget the polls; let’s all wait until next week when the poll stations are all closed and the numbers flow in.
Bottomline is one person will win the nomination; let’s hope that person also wins the GE.
Nobody is entitled to this; you have to earn it and at the end of the day it has to be a fair win or everyone loses.

I don’t think Obama is whining -
at least 35,000 people (police estimate) came to see and listen to him tonight in Philadelphia…
this man is on wings and he and millions of fellow Americans are going to change this country for the better

Clinton lying about NAFTA????? Oh the HORROR! Say it ain’t soooo! NO one will believe it!!! Clinton lying about NAFTA??????? ROTFLMAO EVERYONE INCLUDING THOSE IN PA KNOW THIS! It’s only news to the media! LOL
Those mental giants in PA that are still voteing Clinton can’t be helped, educated or given a hand up in life because they have made their minds up to cling to their past and oddly think they have nothing to be bitter about….kinda like that old play where the head master beats the young lad and the young lad says” Thank you Sir may I have another”. That’s a Clinton supporter!

OBAMA LIES, PEOPLE DIES … google it!
AMERICA BEWARE THE WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING!

Obama said to Iran during the debate: “that an attack on Israel is an attack on our strongest ally in the region, …one …I would consider an attack that is unacceptable, and the United States would take appropriate action.”
Can we trust him for Israel, when him and , Ayers and had teamed up for three years on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charitable organization. Together, they voted to donate $75,000 of the largesse they controlled to the Arab American Action Network. The AAAN was co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, a longtime supporter of Palestinian “resistance” attacks against Israel, which he openly regards as a racist, apartheid state. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, Khalidi peremptorily denies having been a PLO operative or having directed its official press agency for six years (from 1976 to 1982). AMERICA BEWARE THE WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING!

I BET ALL OBAMA’S SUPPORTER THAT criticized ABC ARE the weather underground people, BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID TO SHOW OBAMA MASK with bill ayers, as asking in the debate, OR THESE PEOPLE WHO CRITIZISED ABC ARE member of Rev. Wright’s church…. OR FARAKHAN SUPPORTER!
AMERICA BEWARE THE WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING!

Obama said: I did NOT play the race card: – LIAR – [03/31/2008] Obama was the first to play the race card. According to Phialdelphia Inquirer, Quietly, the storm over the hateful views expressed by Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has blown away the most insidious myth of the Democratic primary campaign. Obama and his surrogates have charged that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has deliberately and cleverly played the race card in order to label Obama the “black” candidate.
Googele it as: Obama was the first to play the race card

An Obama economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, met with Canadian officials and left the impression he was assuring them not to take Obama’s anti-NAFTA rhetoric too seriously.
THIS NEWS IS MORE DAMAGING FOR OBAMA

Ayers, Rezko, Rev,. Wright, Michelle this relationships plus his lack of command on the issues are proof that Obama is unelectable. Pennsylvania voters and DNC should see this, if not Obama may be the nominee but we will lose the White House to McCain.

Wow I’ve never seen such craziness!! The Clinton supporter make it seem like Hillary is their family member and shes not! RELAX!! I didnt see any of you making some of the $109 million dollars the Clintons raked in since leaving office. Lets all take a step back before we get Obsessed. I support Obama but will gladly support Clinton if she wins. Both are similar and equally better than McCain. We need to start focusing on McCain and his warmongering instead of Clinton Obama. Let these to sort it out by votes not by our comments. We need our comments to serve as john McCain’s enemy while he receives a free pass at every mistake he commits

I think some of you truly don’t get it. It matters little at this time whether Obama is ahead of her. She is now nine points ahead in PA ( Rasmussen’s new report) She is ahead 55% in IN, 62% in Kentucky, 55% in WV, and etc. Obama is WAAAAAY behind McCain Florida, when Hillary beats McCain in Florida. Say it with me…You are going to a convention. She will over take him in popular vote, not to mention Dean said they will have to seat Florida at the convention. It all comes down to the super delegates. Why do none of you understand that? It isn’t hard to get. She isn’t going to drop out, and people don’t want her to. It’s obvious. I’m glad I’m Independent, because I can’t handle crazy liberal logic anymore.
And to all you Obama supporters on this article, who are actually trashing Hillary about NAFTA…The word hypocrit dances in my head.
As trivial as the flag thing is, and certainly should not be a reason for anyone not to vote for/against someone, I guess the reason the whole thing got started was because Obama did actually tell the media that he wasn’t going to wear them. While I think it’s an absurd issue, at least I know where the heck it got started.
“Obama did a bit of historical rewriting regarding his previous statements on wearing a U.S. flag pin in his lapel.
Obama: I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins. This is the kind of manufactured issue that our politics has become obsessed with. …
Actually, last year he told an interviewer for station KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
Obama, Oct. 2007: I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. Instead, I’m gonna try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.
And ABC News quoted him as saying that wearing flag pins had become “a substitute for … true patriotism”:”
Sometimes little things become huge for no reason, but don’t act as though the reason is because those people are bigots.

“The AP said that the memo “was widely distributed within the Canadian government” and describes an “introductory” meeting with Canada’s consul general in Chicago, Georges Rioux. It was written by Joseph DeMora, a consulate official who also attended. According to The AP, DeMora wrote 1,300 words describing many topics covered, including this about NAFTA:
DeMora memo: “[Goolsbee] was frank in saying that the primary campaign has been necessarily domestically focused, particularly in the Midwest, and that much of the rhetoric that may be perceived to be protectionist is more reflective of political maneuvering than policy. On NAFTA, Goolsbee suggested that Obama is less about fundamentally changing the agreement and more in favour of strengthening/clarifying language on labour mobility and environment and trying to establish these as more `core’ principles of the agreement.
. . . Noting anxiety among many U.S. domestic audiences about the U.S. economic outlook, Goolsbee candidly acknowledged the protectionist sentiment that has emerged, particularly in the Midwest, during the primary campaign. . . . [He] cautioned that this messaging should not be taken out of context and should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans.”
Factcheck.org—-Now who has the right to critcize McCain or Clinton on this issue? Certainly not Sen. Obama.

Quick, let’s have another “debate” so we can ask her about this.

Another of the lies of Hillary. Let’s talk logic: do you think that while her husband was actively promoting NAFTA, his wife would organize on 10 November 1993 at 11:45 am a drop-by meeting with 150 influential and business oriented women at the same White House to oppose the treaty? Are we stupid or mentally retarded? This shows again that Hillary would say anything to get to the White House!!!!

@ Demo Rules
Americans are waking up?
Obama’s lead is closing, he’s ahead only by 3% in legitimate national polls (Gallup).
Yes, you’re right…Americans are waking up.

For those who want to know more, or be reminded, of Sen. Clinton’s real experience during her eight years as First Lady, there is an interesting piece written by Diane Rigali that can easily be found by Googling “Diane Rigali, Forgotten.”

Can’t wait for all the bubble-dwellers in the media to get theirs popped on April 22nd. Newsflash: It’s not all about you.
Thought the debate was bad news for Obama? Wait until Tuesday. Even Axelrove won’t be able to spin it, not even with his usual fallback position of Obama as victim.
Finally, after having to tolerate the self-important, egotistical mediocrity that is the so-called mainstream media for weeks and weeks, at least some of the voters (remember them?) will be allowed to weigh in for the very first time post-Wright, post-SF, post-finger, post-Bosnia.
And we’ll all just have to accept what they have to say as the final word.
Jake & colleagues: It’s not about you.

Jake says:
“But Blanchard seemed to pooh-pooh that bold statement, telling attendees that Democrats are more concerned about China and Mexico than they are Canada.”
”Their concern is job loss or unfairness in dealing with countries that have low wage and labor standards and low environmental standards,” Blanchard said, according to the Canadian Press. ”I have not seen anything that would constitute a threat to trade with Canada.”
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Jake: You described what Blanchard said as “pooh poohed”. Get a grip man.
What Blanchard said is what Hillary has said all along. NAFTA should be renogiated to make for an even level playing ground. And this will definitely impact Mexico more than Canada. I’m from Michigan and can attest to the fact that we’ve been decimated by jobs going to Mexico big time. And now I’ve heard Mexico is even losing those jobs to China.

Couldn’t have put it better, McCain is elderly. He is a genuine American Hero running for President unfortunatnately for him, at the wrong time. Now if he were in place of Bush 8 years ago. Age Discrimination should be frowned upon, but as a change argument – I don’t think it will.

This country is not about a flag pin; it’s not about a flag; it is about a citizens right to burn that flag in protest. It is the right of a person to get up and put forth an opinion that you totally disagree with and would fight with all your breath against. That is what America is about, that is what we should celebrate. Our military fights for our Constitutional right to burn that flag if we wish. It’s called freedom of speech. The right to express ourselves any way we wish.

Why does Hillary Clinton hate America? All this lady does is lie to ordinary citizens, and then she and her husband go around playing the suggestive race card. I’m sorry that she is a closeted lesbian (yes, it is true and widely known in washington, just like everyone knew about Larry Craig and said nothing- not that there is anything wrong with that) and feels that she must be more manly than her husband in terms of toughness. I just can vote for someone who can’t level with the world about her own sexuality.

How could the press have been against Hillaryt since the beginning? SHe was the front runner up until Iowa.
What was proven was the voters don’t like and/or trust her.
Once Obama gets the nod he will be the agent of change and will easily beat McCain the general election.
Voters care about their homes, jobs, healthcare, ending the war and having a future…they don’t care about negative attacks or the politics of personal destruction.
And for Dem voters who would vote against Obama if he wins you clearly are missing the point. The election is about a battle of vision over ideologies not personalities.
Whoever the Dem nominee is,support them and change the executive branch of the government.

Obama is running commercials non stop here in NC claiming he never has and never will take a penny from Washington Lobbyists. On USA Todays website political page, there is a list of THIRTY EIGHT WAHINGTON LOBBYISTS, names by name. that have pledged to raise between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand dollars each for Obama. When I called their local office number and asked the chick answering the phones about it, she was speechless. Obama has done nothing buyt lie about every thing he is putting out to the public in this campaign. God help us if a bunch of idiots in this country elect him as President.

Borack Hussein Obama President? very sad for the USA – He’ll never have my vote

All you Obama supporters are out of your minds if you think that Hillary’s supporters will vote for him.
Most of us WILL vote for McCain. And there is no amount of time that will heal the wounds Obama’s supporters have inflicted.
Obama will probably win the Democratic nomination but he will NOT win the General Election.
You all think that because we are registered Democrates we will vote for ANYONE on the Democratic ticket. WRONG. Most of us think for ourselves and will vote for the candidate we think is best.
If not Hillary than McCain!

Misty I remember McCain saying that. They are already bringing it up in the MSM. It was so insulting. I remember thinking to myself “Who is this creep.” He insulted Chelsea, who as an 18 year old must have been totally humiliated. McCain insulted Bill Clinton with the suggestion that the indiscretions of his past resulted in that. He insulted Hillary who had suffered enough abuse from that kind of talk. And he insulted the gay and lesbian community because of the insinuation that Janet Reno is a lesbian. I’m not a lesbian, but I can rightfully imagine that outrage. I’m all for Hillary, but Obama has my vote if the party nominates him. I’ll never vote for McCain. At least Sen. Obama has never made those kinds of nasty personal attacks on Hillary. And that says a lot about a man. We’ll show McCain.

Finally! A smart discussion. Thanks everyone.

we have so much oil in this country that the Americans need. Most of it we haven’t even touched yet. To me, I don’t really care who got in touch with the Canadian Government first, but this I do know. I would rather our Government deal with Obama than Clinton, so I hope he wins. He’s the only thing you have that we don’t, so if you don’t want him send him to the Great White North.

I moved to Michigan in 1990 just in time to see Governor Jim Blanchard get beat by a little known State Senator named John Engler. I remember Blanchard’s brilliant TV ads extolling his prison boot camps featuring white drill sergeants yelling in the faces of black inmates. He also had an expensive looking jet-copper he liked to fly around the state in that Engler made an issue of. Not surprisingly, there was a low voter turnout in Detroit and Engler won a stunning upset victory.
Then came the fiscal scandal in the Michigan House of Representatives. The Democrats had been stealing money for years. That gave the Republicans control of state government for the next ten years. Most of the Democrats that were left didn’t really care. As long as their seats were safe, all was right with the world. Bill Clinton was a much better politician than his friend Jim Blanchard. Bill even remembers he is a Democrat most of the time and he knew to treat black voters like people not inmates in the Democratic column.
There was also a police helicopter that flew around the state capitol neighborhood all night long looking for open-air drug sales. It was the tail end of the bipartisan “war on drugs”. During the Blanchard administration, there was almost a dollar-for-dollar shift of money for higher education to new prisons in the state budget. Recently, the state lowered many of the sentences handed out in the era for drug crimes mostly because the state couldn’t pay for it any longer. Tuition was raised and many students borrowed more student loans.
Now, the Michigan economy is once again at “Rodger and Me” like depths. Maybe if the state had invested and valued its motivated young people, rather than treating them like “revenue sources”, people would want to start or move business to Michigan. And the policies of Jim Blanchard, like his tepid governor friend from Wisconsin Tony Earl, hang in my memory in the Republican frames they originally came in.

The democrats have added new voters …………….FOR THE PRIMARY.
Many will vote for Mc Cain or not vote.
We go thru this EVERY election cycle.
These Obama lovers think that people ONLY signed up for Obama. If that was true, then Obama would have won easily by now.
Believe me, Obama will never win the general election. All he has is 20 years olds -who never have shown up in great numbers in the general election.
Never have, never will.
If Obama gets the nomination, Mc Cain will win the election .

Boy, Hillary put quite a bit of spin on that word! She’ll do anything to take the heat off of her and Bill. Bill and Hillary both supported NAFTA, it’s obvious from her schedule that was released. Now, Bill and her campaign strategist Penn are working with the Columbian government to push through a trade deal that she supposedly is against. The people of Pennsylvania have every right to be “bitter”, but it’s because of people like the Clintons who have cost them their jobs. The Columbians have paid Bill $800,000 for his work to promote the trade agreement If you expect people to actually believe you don’t support the agreement, why would you be okay taking the $800,000. And if that $800,000 is in your joint account, and you’ve “loaned” your campaign $5 million, how can people be sure that the Columbians aren’t paying for her campaign.
People in upstate New York State were promised that if she were elected to the Senate, she would bring thousands of jobs there. Well, no jobs ever came, and when she was questioned about it at the MSN debate, her lame response was that when she made those promises, she thought Al Gore would be elected President!!!! Take my word for it Pennsylvania Voters, she could care less about you…she’s telling you what you want to hear so that you’ll vote for her, then you can forget any lame promises she has made. Jobs are still leaving Upstate at an alarming rate. She can’t even handle one State, how in the world can she think she can run an entire country. Please Pennsylvania… don’t let her scam you like she did the NY Senate voters and OH and TX primary voters with lies about NAFTA.

Is Obama really believing what some of his supporters think that he is a deity in a cult? That he can talk in riddles and nobody has the right to question him? Why is he so unable to answer any question? why does he have to retreat and then come back with an explanation or a whine?

WHO IS SAYING THAT ALL YOUNG VOTER ARE FOR OBAMA IS NOT TRUTH THE MEDIA THINK THAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE STUPID….. THEY WILL SEE THE DIFFERENT AFTER TUESDAY THERE POLLS HAVING CLINTON UP BY 19 POINTS…….. THE MEDIA LIKE CNN,. MSNBC THINKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STUPID…….

MC CAIN IS A WAR HERO….. 2008

Eric above says that McCain is a war hero. That doesn’t give him the experience to be president.
And what kind of a war hero would have such disrespect and lack of loyalty to the troops that he is against the new GI bill that was introduced in the Senate?

scape goating again

If someone doesn’t give a source for their accusations, don’t give it any credence. Anyone can make up anything.

I see no one is outsources jobs in America it’s the people who out source themselves from the rest of the real world that beleive in one nation under God. So if no one believes in unity there will be no jobs left You make your own bread or you can move somewhere else where there is beleivers