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canadian_is_cold Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 10:14 PM
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NEWS on NAFTAgate from Canada
"Quite a few people heard it," said one source in the room.

"He said someone from (Hillary) Clinton's campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. . . That someone called us and told us not to worry."

Government officials did not deny the conversation took place.

They said that Brodie sought to allay concerns about the impact of Obama and Clinton's assertion that they would re-negotiate NAFTA if elected. But they did say that Brodie had no recollection of discussing any specific candidate - either Clinton or Obama.

CTV News Vice-President Robert Hurst said he would not discuss his journalists' sources.

But others said the content of Brodie's remarks was passed on to CTV's Washington bureau and their White House correspondent set out the next day to pursue the story on Clinton's apparent hypocrisy on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Althought CTV correspondent Tom Clark mentioned Clinton in passing, the focus of his story was on assurances from the Obama camp.

<read full story here>
http://www.cjob.com/news/index.aspx?dir=national&src=ext&rem=./n0305132A.xml

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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 10:34 PM
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1. K&R
I want the assurances from the Clinton camp on every blog, every letter to the editor, and every media source in Pennsylvania. Talk about hypocrisy!
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ada chupitos perez Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 10:40 PM
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2. It was Obama's camp, not Hillary's that alerted the Canadian government
Look at your source. Has anyone ever heard of cjob.com? What is that?

Factcheck.org already implicated Obama's main economic advisor in NAFTA-gate. This is a lame attempt to pretend that it was Hillary, and not Obama, that did it:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_facts_about_nafta-gate.html
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canadian_is_cold Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 11:19 PM
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3. More sources for you.
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Brundle_Fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 11:34 PM
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4. this is interesting....
I read this in the Globe and Mail today.

Funny that CNN who touted this as breaking news wont report that they were wrong... at least substantially.


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canadian_is_cold Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 11:50 PM
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5. I am wondering if we should be starting a campaign out here to have Tom Clark fired from CTV
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Lord Helmet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 12:10 AM
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6. she is such a hypocrite
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canadian_is_cold Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 12:55 AM
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7. kick
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