Hey, remember a number of

Hey, remember a number of years ago when Hillary blamed Canada for allowing terrorists into the USA. When she was taken to task for that she didn't back down one bit, but couldn't answer where she got her info from or even prove it but the interviewer had her squirming in her chair. Just another lying politian.

"Blame Canada...."

Wasn't that a song from Southpark that was really popular "down there" a few years ago?

Anyways as for this whole "tempest in a teapot" it gave the two contenders a chance to really be nasty. Loved it!

Hilary was talking about a "foreign government" {us} in the same tone that would be used for Iran or God help us- Venezuela.
Obama was responding to Hilary but still trying {and failing} to retain his good guy image. Ha Ha.

It maybe Hilary's fate to be done in by a smooth talking guy again!
It's enough to make the "poor girl" a miltant feminist but i digress.

NAFTA is a terrible deal. It has devastated the Mexican economy and is a vehicle for Canada to "integrate" with the U S.
The U. S. is in a major reccession and it will only get worse. Do we really want to continue to be tied to them?

Let's do it

Absolutely - renegotiate NAFTA any time - I'd like a chance to get all those terms that leave all the big decisions in the hands of US lobby groups anyway.

And safeguard our energy, our water, our health care system and a dozen other things including our jobs and our resources before it's too late.

If Obama wants to re-open Nafta I'm all for it...

Mix up?

Apparently there was a mix up somewhere as to which Democrat's campaign pooh-poohed the threats to NAFTA. According to the latest from the Globe and Mail Ian Brodie, Harper's chief of staff was the initial source of the leak, and it was Clinton's campaign, not Obama's that said not to worry.

Full text:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080306.wleakupdate0306/BNStory/National/home

It gets curiouser and curiouser. It'll be interesting to see what the US press does with this, not to mention the Obama campaign. It would appear the Clinton campaign is up to some exceptionally dirty tactics. I just wonder how Clinton making the leak became Obama.

Yep!

I saw that too James...and it fits more or less precisely with the tack Billary has been making on Obama during the last week to ten days.

I don't know how a 'clinton' comment ended up being a smear of Barack either...but I don't think we should eliminate the idea that Brodie and Harper played a role in that too.

PARLIAMENTARIANS FROM THE THREE NAFTA COUNTRIES ANNOUNCE TASK FO

WASHINGTON, DC – Following a conference held on March 5th at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which took a critical look at how NAFTA has impacted the North American region, legislators from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico agreed today to launch a Task Force to push for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

The Task Force on Renegotiating NAFTA, will be chaired by NDP Trade Critic, Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster), U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), the Honourable Yeidckol Polevnsky (Senator for Mexico State and Vice-president of the Mexican Senate), and the Honourable Victor Quintana (Deputy of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico), with support from their respective political parties. Members of the Task Force undertake to promote within their respective legislatures the renegotiation of NAFTA.

The objectives of the Task Force include transforming and rebuilding NAFTA in order to achieve a fair trade policy. This fair trade model is designed to safeguard the sovereignty of the three countries, and includes enforceable measures for the protection of workers and the environment, and allows for all three governments to regulate in the public interest.

“In the United States, Mexico and Canada, income inequality has grown dramatically in the almost fifteen years since the free trade agenda took effect. In Canada, families are worse off today than they were when the first agreement was implemented in 1989,” said Julian. “More and more Canadians work harder without being able to keep up. Over 291,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in Canada since 2002 with increasing hardships in softwood lumber communities and elsewhere in Canada.”

“NAFTA has sucked good American jobs away, destroyed the Mexican countryside, deepened our immigration crisis, wiped out the Mexican and middle and small business classes, not brought about promised investments in infrastructure, and hammered communities across the continent. It’s time for Mexico, Canada, and the United States to work together to change this flawed trade model”, said Kaptur.

“It is indispensable that legislators from all three North American partner countries work together to design an alternative project that takes into account each nation’s sovereignty, environmental protection, economic competitiveness, migration, and labor rights,” said Polevnsky. “We must work hand in hand with civic organizations to launch a progressive program that considers the well-being of human beings as the raison d’être of public policy. The Mexican Senate is looking forward to host this Trinational Task Force in the near future”, she said.

“I am pleased that our three nations are working together to build better trading partnerships that support the principles of social justice, environmental sustainability, and human rights”, stated NDP Leader, Jack Layton.

Oops here is the last part

Members of the Task Force are scheduled to meet in the spring 2008, at a location to be announced soon.
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For more information, please contact:
Office of Peter Julian at 613.992.4214

Busy bunnies

Enjoyed reading your comment, south deltawalker. I'm with you on the sheer entertainment value of this farce.

The delicious irony of a foreign government daring to interfere with american politics. Now that's funny.

That the rogue foreign government appears to be the dear old Canadian government.

That the dear old Canadian government ain't really Canadian at all, not in it's heart, ....and not much for governing either....and it ain't old (but as it constantly insists) it's "new"..... as in new "Canadian Republicans". ( Mr. Fellman's novel suggestion.)

That the two Democrats involved ain't real democrats but dependable conservatives as well.

That this is mostly about the endless tinkering of invisible governments that are breeding like bunnies round the world... a Brigade of Corporate Plumbers that fix things....

...and that nothing anymore in this world is as it seems. Not even close.

LOL

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Blame game...

Blame "Canada" for zealously kissing US ass. Blame "Harper" for outing "Obama" in order to aid his US Neacon allies in the McCain camp, and failing them, aid second choice Clinton. The Clinton's, in fact, have long played a duplicitous game, if cannier even than Bushtit.

"Blame Canada" - the song

here it is sung by Robin Williams.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/robin-williams-blame-canada/2321497505

Hilary's new theme song....

Thanks Lynn, great quote.

Enough commiseration

People who say one thing and do another, and say they won't do what they said they would, but keep quiet about it, etc., etc., deserve everything they get.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...

The funny thing about this

The funny thing about this whole racket is that people who think Hillary may win the nomination are called "racists", those who say Obama will, are "sexists".

In any case, the outcome of the Presidential elections will be decided by the makers of the wonderful, computerized, voting machines.....

....that will come to Canada if Harper ever gets a majority.

Good to see that Layton discovered the NAFTA! It took a few years, but never to late? Or is it? The "powers" that control our governments and economy, will never permit any meaningful changes.

Now the UN has also discovered the daily raising food prices on account of the growing food shortages.

Millions of farmers have been kicked of their lands with government collusion for decades and replaced with agribiz monoculture as "more efficient", and even now, producers are getting destroyed by the middlemen in control of the economy and food supplies, while prices are bumped up in the stores, yet governments are ignoring
this crime wave.

Our ranchers are getting half the price for their calves they were getting 10 years ago, hundreds will be forced off their lands this year alone and the politicians don't give a damn.

It is all the workings of the "wealth creating globally competitive marketplace" .

Ed Deak.

Just wondering, that's all.

Isn't it interesting how the MSM, thinking Billary a shoo-in, looked for entertainmnt value by playing up Obama as a serious dark horse threat?

But by the time the Ohio-Texas Primaries rolled around, he was far more than just a threat, indeed, a possible winner in Billary territory, no less.

So in the week before them, the MSM declares Billary the inevitable winner, and starts playing HER up.

And though Obama actually won the majority of Texas votes and delegates, the MSM sticks by, or at least ignores, their error in quickly declaring her the winner.

And now new polls come out, indicating that Obama has lost his lead, and may even be "slipping behind"

Golly gee whiz, could it actually be that "the fix is in"?

I dunno if it's just a press 'game' ME2

Because when it comes to dishing dirt, no one- even among Republicans - can do it any better than the Clintons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/opinion/08herbert.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

I think Samantha Power had it just about right...Hillary is a 'monster'.

GWest

In my post above, I repeated another Tyee poster's assertions that Obama had won in both vote and delegate numbers in the Texas primary, and that the MSM has in essence "lied" abut this.

I note,however, that the NY Times story you offered above asserts that Obama lost in Texas.

Who's right?

So far Obama in Texas seems

So far Obama in Texas seems to have probably won the delegate count, and lost the overall popular vote by a slim margin. In real terms Obama has won Texas.

With most of the returns in Saturday, Obama appears to have also won Wyoming by 20 points or more. Although Wyoming doesn't have a large population, nor many delegates. However, the Clintons did campaign heavily in Wyoming and seem to have only lost ground there. Mississippi is on Tuesday, and Obama is likely to win there handily too.

I suspect the Clintons will drag this out to the convention. If Obama can maintain the high road, while pointing out Clinton's dirty tactics and lumping her and McCain together, he can present himself as a credible alternative, while showing that Clinton is just McCain in a skirt.