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By Steve Pirates

Source.

So wait, it was CLINTON’S aide who said to take the NAFTA criticism with a “grain of salt”? And yet Obama is getting attacked for it??

Now, personally, I would be willing to bet that Obama is in fact posturing, but I’d be equally willing to bet that Clinton is too, and McCain, and Nader as well.
But the fact that a quote that came from Clinton’s camp has been successfully latched onto Obama is pretty sad.
As I said before, can’t we just call them co-president and be done with it?

“Since 75 per cent of Canadian exports go to the U.S., Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton’s musings about reopening the North American free-trade pact had caused some concern.

Mr. Brodie downplayed those concerns.

“Quite a few people heard it,” said one source in the room.

“He said someone from (Hillary) Clinton’s campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. . . That someone called us and told us not to worry.”

Government officials did not deny the conversation took place.

They said that Mr. Brodie sought to allay concerns about the impact of Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton’s assertion that they would re-negotiate NAFTA if elected. But they did say that Mr. Brodie had no recollection of discussing any specific candidate ? either Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama.

CTV News President Robert Hurst said he would not discuss his journalists’ sources.

But others said the content of Mr. Brodie’s remarks was passed on to CTV’s Washington bureau and their White House correspondent set out the next day to pursue the story on Ms. Clinton’s apparent hypocrisy on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Although CTV correspondent Tom Clark mentioned Ms. Clinton in passing, the focus of his story was on assurances from the Obama camp.”

Full post as published by Jolly Lawger on March 08, 2008 (boomark / email).