Must Read: Newspaper Cited in Obama's OHIO NAFTA Mailer Calls it “Misleading”

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http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=5994

2/15/2008
Must Read: Newspaper Cited in Obama's OHIO NAFTA Mailer Calls it “Misleading”

From Newsday:

"Obama's use of the citation in this way does strike us as misleading...It's an example of the kind of slim reeds campaigns use to try to win an office."

To see Senator Obama’s "misleading" mailer: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/The_boon_quote.html

Below is the full text of today's Newsday story:

http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/02/_the_democratic_campaign_has.html

NAFTA: Us, Hillary and the "Boon"

The Democratic campaign has moved in earnest to Ohio, where times are tough and NAFTA has become a dirty word. In an effort to score points, Barack Obama has been dropping a mail-piece (left) that repeats a charge he has made several other times during the campaign -- that "Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was 'a boon' to the economy."

This attack has attracted a flurry of attention, from Clinton's campaign and some reporters. As it turns out, the primary source is us. Back in Sept. 2006, an abbreviated chart printed on Newsday's Spin Cycle page compared Hillary with her Democratic US Senate primary challenger Jonathan Tasini on a variety of issues. The issues chart included this: