NAFTA-gate re-emerges in book

[spiritual_gunfighter]

Insider says Barack Obama campaign feared 'dirty tricks' by Stephen Harper's government in leaked-memo episode


Barack Obama's presidential campaign suspected "dirty tricks" by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government during the 2008 NAFTA-gate controversy, a new book says.

David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, is critical of Harper's administration for its role in a damaging affair that "caused us to limp, if not bleed" into the March 4, 2008 Ohio primary.

During that crucial contest between Obama, at the time an Illinois senator, and rival Hillary Clinton, then a New York senator, there was much political posturing over the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is blamed for job losses in Ohio.

Obama's chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, had met with Canadian officials at the Chicago consulate and assured them the senator's public anti-NAFTA rhetoric should be construed as "political positioning."

http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/746620--nafta-gate-re-emerges-in-book

[mdmc]

1. of course it was political positioning

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[DrToast]

2. To this day, people still think Goolsbee said that

It's pretty sad how that like took hold.

[Romulox]

3. Um guys...it WAS political posturing.

:hi:

[applegrove]

4. I wondered at the time. Now that it is known Canadians should hear about it. About 70% of

Canadians love Obama.