NAFTA or ???

[jreeves]

http://blip.tv/file/1008973

 

[eots]

not that I support obama.. but free trade and nafta are not one in the same

 

[editec]

You seem to think that one who believes in free trade cannot object to specific trade agreements.

Now I would apprecciate if Obama said specifically what he objected to regards NAFTA, but as to his being for free trade but objecting to a specific trade agreement, there's no inconsistency there.

I'm for law and order, but that doesn't mean I want to give the police the right to shoot to kill jay-walkers.

See my point?

 

[jreeves]

You seem to think that one who believes in free trade cannot object to specific trade agreements.

Now I would apprecciate if Obama said specifically what he objected to regards NAFTA, but as to his being for free trade but objecting to a specific trade agreement, there's no inconsistency there.

I'm for law and order, but that doesn't mean I want to give the police the right to shoot to kill jay-walkers.

See my point?

Except that....
Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all - Jun. 18, 2008
The general campaign is on, independent voters are up for grabs, and Barack Obama is toning down his populist rhetoric - at least when it comes to free trade.

In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA.

"Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified," he conceded, after I reminded him that he had called NAFTA "devastating" and "a big mistake," despite nonpartisan studies concluding that the trade zone has had a mild, positive effect on the U.S. economy.
That would be conflicting statements....

 

[editec]

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(a flaming liberal if ever there was one)

 

[jreeves]

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(a flaming liberal if ever there was one)

Yeppers...

To be great is to contradict oneself--------