Mexican leaders knew all along that Obama was nakedly lying about renegotiating NAFTA

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/18/AR2010051800774.html

Mexico not worried about Obama campaign pledge to renegotiate NAFTA

By Alec MacGillis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 18, 2010; 6:35 AM

Remember when Barack Obama http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603555.html">vowed to voters in the industrial Midwest that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to make it more advantageous to U.S. workers? His promise, made to appeal to Democratic primary voters in his battle with Hillary Clinton, set off alarm bells among free-trade advocates, worried that he would yank the country toward protectionism.

Well, our neighbors to our south aren't exactly quaking in their boots about Obama following through on that pledge. In fact, they never put much stock in his promise to begin with, Mexican labor minister Javier Lozano Alarcón said in an interview during a diplomatic visit to Washington.

"We understand that during a campaign a lot of groups and unions present their demands and petitions and complaints, and that as a part of the campaign has to listen to everyone and be sensitive to all this," said Lozano, who was in town late last week in advance of Mexican President Felipe Calderón's two-day state visit this week.

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1. In other words campaign's have to pay lip service to the citizen's concerns

[Ter]

2. Misread the title to read Obama laying naked

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4. So he is going to renegotiate NAFTA?

I'm just wonderin'. Cause, ya know, that takes time and they haven't even started yet.

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5. Of course n ot Obama is a New Democrat (DLC). Is there really a difference?

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6. Most politicians are liars. nt

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7. The Canadians thought pretty much the same thing.

Memo Gives Canada’s Account of Obama Campaign’s Meeting on Nafta

By MICHAEL LUO
Published: March 4, 2008

The denials were sweeping when Senator Barack Obama’s campaign mobilized last week to refute a report that a senior official had given back-channel reassurances to Canada soft-pedaling Mr. Obama’s tough talk on Nafta.

Obama has harshly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement, which many Ohioans blame for an exodus of jobs. He agreed last week at a debate with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that the United States should consider leaving the pact if it could not be renegotiated.

On Monday, a memorandum surfaced, obtained by The Associated Press, showing that Austan D. Goolsbee, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago who is Mr. Obama’s senior economic policy adviser, met officials last month at the Canadian consulate in Chicago.

According to the writer of the memorandum, Joseph De Mora, a political and economic affairs consular officer, Professor Goolsbee assured them that Mr. Obama’s protectionist stand on the trail was “more reflective of political maneuvering than policy.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/politics/04nafta.html?_r=1

Ahhhh, politicians..........

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