Obama and NAFTA
Listen, if Obama had actually warned the Canadian government that he wasn't serious about his NAFTA threats, I'm thinking our Conservative Finance Minister wouldn't have been out there all hot and bothered by those very threats.
It does offer a nice contrast of the blogs that leap to defend a Republican like McCain when the press says something bad about him, but will swallow any old story by that same "liberal media" if it paints a Democrat in a bad light.
Listen, no US president is going to back out of NAFTA, whatever their complaints about it. The clever little clauses they inserted to ensure things like Canada can't stop exporting oil or any other resource no matter what kind of domestic shortage it may face, are way too beneficial to US interests to give up, and both Obama and Clinton are more than intelligent enough to realize it.
On the other hand, they may be willing to renegotiate the pact with our current government, knowing our Bush-loving Conservatives would be likely to hand over to them even more sovereignty than they already have.
