In the current debate on Nafta why is the media focusing on the Obama/Canada angle?

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Give Clintons credit for being master spin doctors. They've been bashing Obama for allegedly trying to have it both ways and supposedly telling the Canadian government that he didn't really want to renegotiate NAFTA.

Who cares. The Canadian part of the NAFTA deal was never the controversial part. Canada has similar if not better wages and protections for labor and the environment than the US does. If you are a worker or company in the US that can't compete with the Canadians I have no sympathy for you.

The problem with NAFTA is that US workers can't compete with Mexico where the wages, environmental protections, and worker safety standards are far less.

And I might add, despite the fact NAFTA was negotiated under the first Bush, the Clintons managed to get NAFTA passed by twisting the arms of a Democratic Congress. If NAFTA was being pushed by a RepublicanPrez, then a lot more Democrats would have voted against it. Where do the Clintons get off attacking Obama on this
 
Yeah I don't know why they're focusing on it.

What they should be focusing on is the extreme naivete -- both in economics and foreign affairs -- that it takes to publicly state that you're willing to opt out of a negotiated trade agreement.
 
ha ha ha it so funny, the problem is not nafta because our jobs are not in mexico or in canada, OUR JOBS ARE IN CHINA
 
Because Barack Obama lost so much credibility on that and so many other issues like this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_Independence_Party
http://independencia.net/ingles/welcome.html
http://independencia.net/ingles/welcome.html
 
Lets not forget that Clinton also supposedly spoke with Canadians. Two quotes from a Canadian source:

In the House of Commons, the Opposition is also calling for the Prime Minister to fire his chief of staff, Ian Brodie, after media reports revealed he described a campaign aide to Hillary Clinton as saying that her public position on NAFTA could also be taken with "a grain of salt".

The official Canadian report on the Feb. 8 meeting, leaked to the Associated Press over the weekend, presents a much more nuanced account of what took place than the story being retold by the Clinton campaign. It shows that Goolsbee talked about the need for a limited renegotiation of the NAFTA agreement, "in favour of strengthening/clarifying language on labour mobility and environment and trying to establish these as more `core' principles of the agreement." This is consistent with what Obama has been saying about NAFTA on the campaign trail.

I think Harper put up the whole thing to embarass both candidates.
 
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