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Is the GOP Really the Party of Free Trade?

William Bernstein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Obama is highly intelligent, highly trained -- and he knows full well that the nation as a whole benefits from free trade, even if substantial minorities are harmed by it.

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Fortune Article Selectively Quotes Obama, Misleads On NAFTA Position

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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An article from Fortune Magazine, entitled "Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all," captures the Democratic candidate walking back his previously stated p...

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The (Bill) Clinton Legacy

Jim Goldgeier and Derek Chollet | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

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Free trade, democracy promotion, and use of force comprised the core of Clinton's foreign policy -- and Obama falls squarely within this tradition. Yet these positions will be even harder for him to maintain.

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A Trade Proposal Even the Teamsters Can Support

James P. Hoffa | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business

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For the past 15 years, anyone who opposed a so-called "free trade agreement" was labeled a protectionist. And that was the end of the story. The TRADE Act allows us to present an alternative.

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Obama Supporter: Goolsbee Should Clarify NAFTA Comments To Canada

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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A bit of a veer off topic on the Obama conference call to press Clinton to drop Mark Penn. Teamsters President James Hoffa, asked about Austan Goolsb...

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Clinton Chief On Colombian Payroll Now Strategizing On Free Trade Deal

David Sirota | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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The person running a major American presidential campaign is simultaneously on the payroll of a foreign government pushing a bill that the next president would have to confront.

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Truth is the First Casualty. Logic is the Second. The Democratic Party is the Third.

RJ Eskow | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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The Clinton campaign is pressing on with arguments for her nomination that are not only illogical, but are likely to cause further lasting harm to the Party's prospects in November.

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Report: Clinton's Private Objections To NAFTA "Ludicrous"

ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

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I have now talked to three former Clinton Administration officials whom I trust who tell me that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton opposed the idea of i...

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Obama Camp: Clinton Owes Apology Over NAFTA Comments

Huffington Post | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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*** NEW UPDATES BELOW *** Yesterday, with the release of Sen. Clinton's schedule as the former first lady, ABC reported: One interesting event in Se...

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Will Hillary Demand That She Resign From Her Own Campaign?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

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The threshold Clinton crossed was to all but endorse the Republican presidential nominee, if the Democratic nominee should turn out to be Barack Obama.

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Canadian PM: Clinton Camp Never Talked To Us About NAFTA

Globe and Mail | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics

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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton never gave Canada any secret assurances about the future of NAFTA such as those allegedly offered by B...

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Hope In the Time of NAFTA

David Sirota | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics

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Hillary has made the entire NAFTA debate about an uncorroborated report from the right-wing Canadian government designed to embarrass Obama. Even more incredibly, the media followed right along.

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Clinton's NAFTA Attack Against Obama Is Unfounded

Lecia Shorter | Posted 03.05.2008 | Home

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Why then did Senator Clinton, an attorney with so much "experience," resort to using statements, the veracity of which are highly questionable, and amount to double hearsay to boot?

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Conflicting Obama Answers On NAFTA Meeting

Politico | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

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For four days after a news report alleged that Sen. Barack Obama's economic adviser had told Canadian officials to ignore the Democrat's tough talk on...

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Obama Denies Assuring Canada on NAFTA

Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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UPDATE: Canada's parliament took up the issue of Obama's position on NAFTA today, with Liberal leaders angrily accusing conservative Prime Minister St...

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Who will Stand up for Ohio by Standing up to China?

Scott Paul | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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Congress and the administration have the power to stop China's cheating and unfair trade practices, but so far, they have sat on their hands. What would a President Obama or a President Clinton do?

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Economics and Presidential Politics -- "It's Globalization, Stupid"

Derek Shearer | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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Democrats are in danger of repeating history unless they think strategically about the international economy and frame the issue of trade in a progressive context.

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Canadian Paper Stands By Story Criticizing Obama On NAFTA

CTV | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and Clinton campaigns dominated the U.S. political landscape on Thursday. On Wednesday, CTV report...

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McCain: Straight Tripe on Trade

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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It's probably unfair to expect the Senator to understand US history. But couldn't he just lift his ideological blinders to take a side glance at the world we're in?

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McCain Attacks Obama Over Debunked NAFTA Story

ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Responding to a Canadian Television report that an aide to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, had reached out to the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. to re...

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Obama Camp & Canadian Embassy Strongly Repudiate NAFTA Story (UPDATED)

David Sirota | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Is Obama genuine in his opposition to NAFTA? Or as a Canadian news report claims, is it all just campaign rhetoric?

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NAFTA Criticism Evokes Response From Canada, Mexico

New York Sun | Josh Gerstein | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

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Canada and Mexico are rebuking the top Democratic presidential candidates, senators Clinton and Obama, for vowing to renegotiate the North American Fr...

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Hillary Clinton Pretends She Never Praised NAFTA

David Sirota | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

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This campaign clearly thinks we are all just a bunch of fools. Hillary Clinton has made statements unequivocally trumpeting NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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Obama (Finally) Putting Attack On NAFTA Front and Center?

David Sirota | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

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I've been troubled by some of Obama's votes on trade, and I've made no bones about that. But his rhetoric on NAFTA in his victory speech tonight was encouraging.

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