HUFFPO.........I demand you REMOVE this article now that this has been proven to be false

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OTTAWA " Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton never gave Canada any secret assurances about the future of NAFTA such as those allegedly offered by Barack Obama's campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office said Friday.

With the NAFTA affair swirling over the U.S. election and Canadian officials skittish about saying anything else that might influence the race, it took the PMO two days to deliver the information.

After being asked whether Canadian officials asked for - or received - any briefings from a Clinton campaign representative outlining her plans on NAFTA, a spokeswoman for the prime minister offered a response Friday.

"The answer is no, they did not," said Harper spokeswoman Sandra Buckler.

That response will come as a relief to the Clinton campaign, which has angrily denied that it has engaged in the kind of double-talking hypocrisy of which it accuses Obama.

The so-called NAFTA-gate affair took a bizarre twist this week that threatened to ensnare Clinton after having already damaged Obama at a critical phase of the U.S. election.

Obama had stinging criticism for the North American Free Trade Agreement while campaigning two weeks ago in Ohio. That rust belt state has lost thousands of jobs and the unions courted by Obama have blamed the trade pact for their job losses. Clinton was also unsparing in her criticism of NAFTA, stating flatly that the United States should withdraw from the agreement if it could not be renegotiated.

Suggestions of hypocrisy cost Obama critical votes in the Ohio and Texas primary - both of which were won by Clinton - and put a stop to his streak of a dozen straight primary wins.

The Associated Press obtained a Canadian government memo that suggested Austan Goolsbee, Obama's senior economic policy adviser, met Canadian diplomats the consulate in Chicago last month.

It was revealed this week that Harper's chief of staff Ian Brodie initially tipped off a television news station to the story on Feb. 26, when in an off-the-cuff conversation he suggested Clinton's attacks on NAFTA were less than sincere.

After investigating the story, a television news station reported the next day that the Clinton and Obama campaigns had both offered Canada assurances that they would leave NAFTA untouched. Both camps issued denials.

But Obama's campaign was further torpedoed by the leak of the diplomatic memo. Goolsbee insists the Canadian memo mischaracterized his position.

Harper has called in an investigation unit to find out who leaked the document to the American media - a probe that will see government employees interviewed and their electronic records searched.

But the opposition says that's not good enough.

They want Brodie fired or suspended for his alleged indiscretions.

And they want the Mounties called in to determine whether any security-of-information laws were broken - just like they were called in when a junior staffer at Environment Canada allegedly leaked climate-change documents to the media last year.

NDP Leader Jack Layton says this incident is far worse.

"It created a political storm," Layton said.

"It has changed the dynamic of the U.S. primary for the Democratic party and it has given a club to the Republican candidate which he can use time and time again to go after whether it's Senator Clinton or Senator Obama."

The revelations about Brodie's conversation with the television news station have left a key unanswered question that holds some implications for the U.S. election.

Sources who overheard that conversation say he specifically mentioned that Canadian diplomats did get assurances from the Clinton camp - and he never raised Obama's name.

That begs the question: why was Clinton's name raised at all?

Brodie does not deny downplaying the Democrats' anti-NAFTA rhetoric in a conversation with the television news station, but he says he cannot recall mentioning any specific presidential candidate.

Clinton's team reacted furiously to the Brodie story and offered the Canadian government "blanket immunity" to publicly release the name of any campaign official who might have offered such back-channel assurances.

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CTV would have the footage,,, if he said this on camera, they were rolling and they indexed the tape properly...

I hope Hill forces him to name the unnamed official.

Hey, you never know: maybe it was Bill!

Punch and Judy.

She can deny anything she likes except her use of a false accusation that she knew false. This kind of nastiness attracks some strange lovers, like Krugman, but most Americans would prefer a more honest president.

I have noticed another thing about this campaaign: she cries and complains if she is called a monster, but regularly calls Obama Kenneth Starr, liar, less qualified than McCain, etc., etc., etc. Herr minions call his other things but then that is unimportant, just how (her brand of) politics is done.
My wife, a very sweet and wonderful person who is normally as polite as Obama, says that '"that woman" gives "bitch" a bad name.' I would agree but then that would be sexist so I'll refrain.

But I will never vote for the thing.

so when are you going to publish this ?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080307.wnaftagate0307/BNStory/National/home

"OTTAWA " Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton never gave Canada any secret assurances about the future of NAFTA such as those allegedly offered by Barack Obama's campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office said Friday."

So? are you going to publish the facts?

AnninCA -- Here's an interesting 2-page article about Obama's Small State Strategy (these quotes are from end of article):

Pennsylvania's primary will be followed by contests in West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, all of which have similar, lunch-pail demographics. If Clinton enters the summer on a roll, especially in the big states, the superdelegates may no longer feel that backing her would be opposing the will of the voters, an Obama supporter said.

"Superdelegates are politicians. They will not buck the will of the voters," said a superdelegate supporting Obama. "The danger point comes if the superdelegates don't see a vote for Clinton as bucking anyone."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030703318.html

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Canadian PM Denies Clinton Report

TORONTO -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office denied on Friday that Canadian officials received back-channel assurances from Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign that her comments on NAFTA were for political show.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702671.html

Time to clean up here. This story has now involved the Canadian PM who has denied all stories that Hillary Clinton EVER contacted the Canadian government regarding NAFTA.

This is nothing more than an Obama "Starr" story, designed to throw suspicion on Clinton for HIS campaign mess.

Shame on Him.

How embarassing that we again involved the Canadians in our gossip.

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AP just put a story out proclaiming "Jesse Jackson is NOT Barack Obama's Mentor". . . NO SH*T . . . Those F'ing race baiters in the media. They didn't want to probe whether Goldwater was Hilary Clinton's mentor. I've F'ing had it with yahoo news, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and NBC for this biased reporting. They're all f'ing racist.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/from_jackson_to_obama;_ylt=ArNSOIGaeIHXMiey2XWzOWxh24cA

NEWS FLASH: Barack Obama is NOT gutter trash

NEWS FLASH: Barack Obama is NOT a muslim and he does NOT want to jail all jewish people

Let's see if Matthews, Tucker and Blitzer pick this up tonight. KO was the only one that did last night.

Why isn't this version getting as much press as the Clinton promoted Obama version? Obama should run some ads on this in PA. Lots of union labor there -- at least there was before NAFTA and globalization struck America like Katrina.

When everyone (including the Canadian government) but the Clinton camp says it was the Clinton campaign that did the deed, how does this turn into Obama lying? Seems that the Clintons often accuse others of doing exactly what they're doing. This is a favorite tactic of theirs.

Kill the messenger! But please let's not talk about the message from Obama. Obama was caught telling the voters one thing about NAFTA while he was telling the Canadians something quite different. It doesn't matter who brought the facts to light. Problem is Obama's lying, not Clinton's telling what he was doing. It wouldn't be surprising to find Obama has or is running the same duplicitous scheme on other issues. For instance, what did Obama have his led foreign policy adviser tell the Syrians at the same time Obama has now started to support Israel?