John McCain blasts Barack Obama on NAFTA (reported on FOXNews.com), “For months, Barack Obama said that he would ‘make sure that we renegotiate’ NAFTA, demanded unilateral changes and threatened to unilaterally withdraw if he did not get his way. Barack Obama knew better. America has not had a protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, but Barack Obama held his position anyway to further his cynical political purposes in the primary campaign."
“Now he claims: ‘I’m not a big believer in doing things unilaterally.’ Barack Obama should know words matter — especially in a campaign based on rhetoric rather than a record of accomplishment. The American people and our allies deserve better than calculated efforts to re-invent positions to sound less irresponsible.”
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Hi Jeff;
Obama’s position on NAFTA is certainly souring the way many Canadians view him. It is not so much that he would venture to re-open NAFTA (which is seen negatively although some would love to hammer the US on energy as we are the number in providing of petroleum products to the US, more than Saudi and Iraq combined) but the way he repeatedly makes it clear that he believes we have some how cheated US workers! Both US and Canadian workers have needed to adapt because of shifts in technology and costs of doing business.
We are allies, partners, not adversaries so Obama’s lack of global knowledge and protectionist impulses are negatives both for the US and Canada….
I would love to get your take on a recent article I wrote on this same topic….have a look?
http://lifeontheblade.blogspot.com/2008/06/letting-obama-win-letting-mccain-win.html
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