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March 2, 2008

Just words? Part III: Obama campaign’s NAFTA wink wink nudge nudge lies and half-truths continue to pile up

I have been closely following the developing story Canada’s CTV first reported on Wednesday in which they alleged that a high-ranking official at the Canadian embassy told them that a “senior” member of the Obama campaign contacted Canadian ambassador Michael Wilson and told him not to take BO’s harsh anti-NAFTA rhetoric too seriously, that it was merely “campaign rhetoric” and that Canada shouldn’t worry. What we’ve learned since that story is that it wasn’t the Canadian embassy that was called, but instead it was a visit that was paid to the Canadian Consulate General’s office in Chicago by Obama’s senior economic advisor Austan Goolsbee......   [Read More]