I don’t believe this for a minute: …the Canadian Embassy in Washington released a statement essentially backing up the Obama camp’s version of the meeting between adviser Austan Goolsbee and officials at the Canadian consulate in Chicago.
“There was no intention to convey, in any way, that Senator Obama and his campaign team were taking a different position in public from views expressed in private, including about NAFTA,” the embassy statement said. “We deeply regret any inference that may have been drawn to that effect.”.
What I believe is this – the Canadian government doesn’t want to be involved in a dust-up of this nature with a possible future president of the United States. The real story has yet to be told.
“Obama, an Illinois senator, acknowledged that a meeting did take place between Goolsbee and the Canadian consulate officials but added, “He said exactly what I’ve been saying on the campaign trail.”
One knows this is an outright lie. There is no possible way that Austan Goolsbee would have dared tell Canadian officials that NAFTA would be radically revised once “Barry” Obama is in the White House. And this indeed what the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee has been telling the less educated blue collars in Ohio! The Canadian government merely wants to provide Obama and Goolsbee some wiggle room. It’s perhaps best for it to stay out of harm’s way.
This film clip helps one to understand the post modernist corruption taking place in our modern world. Trust me, it is well worth viewing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs
Austan Goolsbee and other graduates of our “elite” schools have learned how to mealy mouth to the point of absurdity. One must listen to these individuals very closely. The truth of their words is often buried in the fourteenth sentence of the fifth paragraph. Everything they say must be taken with a huge grain of salt.
Yes, but other things said by the Canadians and the memo they produced of said meeting make it plain that Obama is being a tad cute here. They just don’t want to get dragged into it.
It’s disappointing to see the Canadian government in effect calling its embassy official, who released this truth about the Obama campaign, a liar.
So, the first round of denials was not entirely forthcoming.
We are now told that “views were exchanged.”
I think we are entitled to know what those were, under oath.
Remember the stink Gary Sick made about a secret deal btwg Reagan and the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the 1980 election? Gary had Bush 41 traveling in an SR 71 to meet in secret with the Iranians.
Nothing came of it but here we have unelected people admitting to making deals with foreign entities.
I thinks this calls for a congressional hearing.
The Gary Sick charge was dubbed the October Surprise.
What are we calling this one?
I propose the February Faux pas since it has to do with Canada. Although a Faux pa is essentially a question of bad etiquette, nothing that would bring out the handcuffs
John Edwards dropped out of the campaign last month, but listening to the tired anti NAFTA rhetoric of Clinton and Barrack, it seems as if he’s won.
If the professor has been paid by the campaign and the campaign has accepted matching funds then I think we can call the professor to testify.
I want to know who paid for lunch. Did the Canadians pay?
I remember Austan Goolsbee from high school debate. His specialty, if I recall, was extemporaneous speaking (you don’t debate anyone in particular; you deliver an impromptu speech on a policy issue). It’s been years, but he had a formidable reputation back in the day. Apart from a brief mention in Freakonomics, I hadn’t heard his name in more than a decade.
Look, let’s be honest here. We’re all hoping that Obama’s rhetoric is just that, but for all we know, he’s deadly serious about repudiating NAFTA. All the smack the democrats talk about Bush and our standing in the world boils down to complaints about his popularity. So now their own nominee is talking about tearing apart a continent-wide economic partnership?
I mean, it’s just incredible. Go read his plan on foreign policy. On every major issue, his answer is “more diplomacy”. When you string together his NAFTA position plus the war on terror issues, you have a candidate who proposes disengaging in every substantial way from the rest of the planet. We’d abandon trade, renege on our security commitments, and leave threats to fester and grow unopposed. Meanwhile, his only answer to the problems of the world is to export speeches.
Many– actually most– of the real challenges in the world are not caused by lack of understanding. The Israelis and the Palestinians understand each other perfectly well. The same goes for the Russians and the Ukrainians, or China and Taiwan, or a hundred other conflicts. They’re not fighting because they haven’t heard the right speech yet, they’re set against each other by a clash of national interest. The fundamentalist Islamic world hates the West– but who are actually doing the fighting? For the most part, the leaders were trained in western schools and have no lack of understanding of our culture or beliefs. I think Jonah Goldberg made this point a couple years ago.
When you think about it, this is what Obama’s three years in the Senate prepared him for. His oratory is phenomenal, and I don’t want to denigrate diplomacy and negotiation, but you can’t talk your way out of every national challenge you encounter. I’m starting to think that that’s all Obama knows, all he can do, and all he intends to do.