Obama Reverses Campaign Pledge to Renegotiate NAFTA. Democracy Now 8/11/ 09 -- Pt.2

balantz

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Obama Reverses Campaign Pledge to Renegotiate NAFTA. Democracy Now 8/11/ 09 -- Pt.2

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President Obama has wrapped up a two-day visit to Mexico for talks with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The three leaders met in Guadalajara to discuss issues including immigration reform, trade, Mexicos drug war, the crisis in Honduras, and the swine flu outbreak. It was Obamas first official summit under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. On the campaign trail, Obama had promised to open up NAFTA to renegotiations. But hes backed off that pledge since taking office, blaming the global economic meltdown.

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balantz

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Wed Aug-12-09 04:36 PM
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1. Obama shown speaking about Honduras at 4:25 into the video. n/t

Edited on Wed Aug-12-09 04:37 PM by balantz

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grahamhgreen

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Wed Aug-12-09 05:29 PM
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2. Another one bites the dust....

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edc

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Wed Aug-12-09 07:58 PM
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3. Once upon a time

the US publicly denounced Latin American coups it aided and abetted privately. At least we've moved beyond that hypocrisy.

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Thu Aug-13-09 02:15 AM
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4. Obama's statement about why the U.S. is not intervening diplomatically

in Honduras (or at least not intervening effectively) is intellectually dishonest. We do not have to meddle in Honduras' internal affairs to impose sanctions on the leaders of a coup in a country. We should insist that the usurpers, the coup leaders, return President Zelaya who was elected by the people of Honduras to his position.

What is most shameful and not discussed is that the coup leaders apparently killed one of their opponents -- thus foreclosing a fair election at any time in the future.

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avaistheone1

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Thu Aug-13-09 02:48 AM
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5. Obama is being disingenuous saying he is backing off opening NAFTA renegotiations due to the global

economic meltdown. NAFTA is one of the causes of the global economic meltdown.

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cui bono

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Thu Aug-13-09 04:00 AM
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6. That's what I was thinking. And what happened to regulating the finance industry?

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Thu Aug-13-09 04:18 AM
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8. what a disappointment coming from a progressive point of view,this is just bs

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Papa Boule

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Thu Aug-13-09 04:07 AM
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7. Lando: This deal is getting worse all the time. n/t

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