The Note, 2/19/09: Long Way from Ohio — Canada-Bound Prez Softens NAFTA Stance

What kind of article is this??? Obama is once again not doing what he said he was going to do with Nafta and ABC starts to report it then they throw in the kitchen sink???? Lousy journalism.

CW, yeah! Into the ground.

Another day, another flip-flop from O’bomb’a, he makes Al Gore look like he has a backbone or something. Jeez, fool me once, fool me twice, when do Obama supporters realize they are suffering from “battered wife syndrome”? Oh well after four years of abuse, maybe they will get the hint?

What’s that smell?

He did promise redistribution of wealth. Don’t know where it will end up but it’s surely being redistributed, and at a record pace. Maybe he just meant it would leave the national treasury.

I do like the idea of making our international diplomacy efforts all about trade and nothing about war. Like Dr. Paul says, let them have their border disputes, let them have their civil wars, let them have their revolutions, we did it without interference. What gives us the right to interfere with the activities of other governments? Our interest should be limited to trade as long as the other countries are militarily non- aggressive toward us. Then we must kick booty.

While the US clings to this stupid concept of “Free Trade”, we will continue to bleed wealth to the rest of the world. “Free Trade” has cost the US billions in dollars, jobs, industry, manufacturing and technology over the years, and continues to do so. Without industry/manufacturing/technology where is the supposed turn-around of the economy supposed to come from. The US is so set on “leading” the world, that it doesn’t realize that the world is bleeding us dry, and will turn it’s back on us the moment it can no longer get anything more out of us, which is rapidly approaching.

There is no way Obama can repeat any of the heated rhetoric he used against NAFTA and free trade in general in his visit to Canada today.
The question then becomes how much heat the POTUS takes for completing such a blatant flip-flop.
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I don’t think that with or without NAFTA
would necessarily hurt/help Canada or Mexico. NAFTA was about EU coming together not about free trade for the US.
The US has lost millions of jobs because NAFTA and cheap labor.
The NAFTA agree should be reviewed and modified or change.

It’s simple, Barack Obama is not a leader.

I don’t think that with or without NAFTA
would necessarily hurt/help Canada or Mexico. NAFTA was about EU coming together not about free trade for the US.
The US has lost millions of jobs because NAFTA and cheap labor.
The NAFTA agreement should be reviewed and modified or changed
We need to give Obama the same respect that other Presidents received.
Obama has only been in that office for about four weeks.

Obama has shown me that even the most sincere appearing politicians lie. But deep down I always knew this.

Just remember America, Canada supplies 20% of your OIL and a great deal of your Electrical Power and soon a Pipe Line to supply Natural Gas.

Hey geniuses, you do realize the commentator quoted as criticizing Obama, David Sirota, is a progressive, far left, liberal columnist?
Obama is ticking off the liberals and you are beating him up for it – I love it. Glad to have you on the leftwing side.

NAFTA, Canada, Mexico – would this have anything to do with the developement of the new North American Union, similar to the European Union, where the borders of Canada and Mexico will basicaly be disolved?

There are borders between the US, Canada and Mexico? Really?

At least he doesn’t have to send secret messages to Canada anymore about his real position on Nafta. Please Canada keep the lying bozo for awhile, we all need a break from him.

This site reflects more racism than the KKK! The constant name calling, the obvious double standards that weren’t applied to prior Presidents and calling anything a lie that doesn’t confirm the negative predictions of Obama’s critics. The list goes on; guilt by association even if based on twenty year old sound bites or loose affiliations: Michelle said she’s proud of the USA for the first time in her adult life and Hannity told you that that mean she hates America. You ignored what she said and accepted what someone else’s slanted, dishonest interpretation; all because you want to hate BO and the reality of a black POTUS. Here’s a news flash for all of you: None of your cloaked, politically correct racist based negativity is deceiving anyone. We went to war based on a big lie about weapons that didn’t exist and you have the nerve to say that BO is a liar. What then, was GWB and why are you so willing to discount and ignore that. Maybe you have a convenient case of amnesia. Anyway, very little of your naysaying makes sense to anyone except others who think that Limbaugh & Hannity are journalist. Actually, they are expert at slander and libel. When we begin to enforce the related laws, we won’t need the Fairness Doctrine that Hannity is trying so hard to brain wash you about now.

Today’s “Cast Of Characters”; a real embarrassment to ABC News. The Quality of Discourse…….”Sorely Lacking!” Sorry Gang.

Lemme see if I GET THIS RIGHT?
if you’re NOT American, you can be negotiated with in BAD FAITH, sued by American companies into compliance… & generally forced to allow your local economies to go to hell…
& don’t forget the ‘social compliance’ of the Drug War.
hum.
so if you bend over for all these abuses & suddenly the US CHANGES ITS MIND AGAIN about international trade agreements, you’re screwed.
I GUESS CANADA HAS A LOT MORE IN COMMON WITH Africa, India & LATIN AMERICA when it comes to dealing with BALKANIZATION, CIA & general ‘be glad we don’t just aerially bomb you outright’ treatment by the USA.
Interestingly, the US has suddenly decided the DRONE PATROLS of they use so lovingly in PAKISTAN are suitable for patrolling the US/Canada border.
Breaking the Treaty of Ghent with live rounds by the Coast Guard wasn’t good enough for you?
OH wait!
I forgot, travel in or OVER the good ol’ USA & you CAN HAVE YOUR ELECTRONIC INFORMATION CLONED.
gee, should I worry about BEING RENDERED? or maybe SIMPLY BEING DRUGGED & THROWN OUT OF THE COUNTRY… check the Washington Post & the ACLU’s complaints about the American fascist behaviour with EVEN THEIR BEST TRADING PARTNERS.
Personally? I think leaving the US to freaking sit without TarSands oil or Labrador hydro for a few months will teach them to respect the agreements they make & bullyishly enforce upon others…
& maybe they’ll respect the sovereign rights & UN-signed DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS that they so wantonly flout.
for shame, Amerika. you’re no friend of any nation, only yourselves.

Bitch Bitch………..Bitch..Where were you people for the last eight years?????You so called conservatives that got us into a Cheney, big , war.Coservatism that ran up a 13 trillion dollar debt. Now you bitch????

I for one believe the President has alot on his plate, and is well up on the underlying funk that has gone on in this country…He is not missing the mark…but the People are…President Obam has good intent…and knows when to use his heaven sense…Tread lightly the mouths of spite…It is a good thing we give Canada rights…You wanted Mexico..you got Mexico and all the infiltrations of illegals to boot…Close your mouth and pay attention…Some of you are not worth mention…USA is about more than suking up to the Good Ole Boys of yesteredays history…Apachecheynne

mmonroe– when you figure out what blue berry is taliing about clue me in.. better yet don’t i sort of dismissed the whole thing once the washington Post and the ACLU were cited as an information source.. WOW…

hey, BSKI & ARKIE Vet
if you haven’t done your homework, maybe you should leave the opinions to those who have?
democracy requires effort & research…
funny that you should know so little about the lack of freedoms experienced by the citizens of your nation, & the injustices put upon sovereign peoples….
simply because you can’t do your homework.
I suggest reading The Nation, or some Amy Goodman.
you *do* know what a military-industrial complex might be? or how invested ABC, FOX & MSNBC are into militarizing your nation?
if you don’t have a clue, maybe its because you get all your information from THEM, & not the people who don’t always agree with ‘bomb them into loving our freedoms’…
**all of the comments I’ve made have been highly researched, by excellent journalists of high reputation**
if you haven’t read or seen any of it, don’t blame me.

BlueberryPick’n; You seen the UN concentration camps over yonder in Tennessee? Yep! I’m a tellin’ ya. They got ‘em all set up. They’s big concrete buildin’s with UN wrote on ‘em. They gonna make everbody get a number tatooed on ‘em or else they gotta go to the UN camps. All the US ‘cept certain areas will be goverment property. I ain’t lyin’. Seen it with my own eyes.

Where are the professional bloggers today? Is it a holiday? Are they writing protest letters and making phone calls to their congressmen to get off Roland Burris’s case? Was there an ACORN meeting? Has Obama reduced his propoganda budget? Don’t you miss them? Not! It is good to see the media finally holding Obama’s feet to the fire.

Arkie Vet; It was our former great president Eisenhower, last of the great military leader Presidents, who coined the term industrial military complex. He warned us to beware. The Steve Miller Band went on to write a Vietnam era song about the industrial military complex hex. It’s a good thing but only to whatever extent a necessary evil can be a good thing. I’m afraid in recent years we’ve come to rely on defense spending to keep the economy propped up.

Canada is the greatest threat to the US. They have massed over 90% of their population within 100 miles of our border.

All the talk about fairness! Is it fair that some homeowners will receive mortgage help on the backs of “good” homeowners? Is it fair that one mother loads the welfare system with 14 children? Is it fair that a school wipes out all the end-of-the-year class picnic program because two students break the rules? Fairness seems to become the question only after the fact.
Where was the fairness in all the deceptive practices of mortgage companies and banks in luring people into deals? Where’s the fairness in credit companies who raise interest rates when an otherwise responsible cardholder runs into life problems?
All the “good and fair” complainers: are you always honest and truthful in your dealings with others? Or are you like so many in our culture scoping out where you might find a hedge, a deal, an edge? Are you the ones one the sinking ship who don’t stop to help the old man who trips? or the lost child?

Nafta is the end of US sovereignty. It’s just another step to a one world government. Obama didn’t originate it but he did support it as a Senator, deny it as a presidential candidate and push it as President.
In two years we’ll elect and even more leftist Congress. The process will accelerate. Since the American people were foolish enough to allow Obama’s election and total leftist take over, we’ll get what we deserve.
Hopefully I’ll be around to say I tried to warn you.

The fact is that the trade agreements and massive legal and illegal immigration has not worked well for American workers. Some of our trading partners (e.g., Canada, China and Mexico) have clearly benefited. The United States by itself represents a huge free trade zone. The great experiments massive free trade and immigration should have been tried on a more modest scale. The damage is now difficult to reverse. An obvious example is manufacturing we need to decent jobs for those without high school education. In motor vehicles foreign brands already have more than 50% of the market. The problem is deeper than that Ford produces there Fusion in Mexico and will build a reintroduced Festiva there in 2010.
The combined free flow of goods and free flow of labor over boarders is pushing wages toward the world average. The elite leadership of both parties may be described as Globalist not Pro American.

THE NAFTA IS THE ONLY LEGITIMATE AMERICAN TRADE AGREEMENT BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS THE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL POWER IN THE WORLD.