{"id":195704,"date":"2008-06-20T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/20\/obama-backpedals-on-nafta-criticism\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T10:18:00","slug":"obama-backpedals-on-nafta-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/20\/obama-backpedals-on-nafta-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Backpedals on  NAFTA Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now he is saying that Nafta is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/06\/18\/magazines\/fortune\/easton_obama.fortune\/index.htm?postversion=2008061810\">not so bad after all<\/a>,&#8221; in an interview in Fortune magazine.<\/p>\n<p>This is no surprise to me.  One of his chief economic advisers has been Austan Goolsbee, and most of the rest have been seriously &#8220;Chicago School&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p>If you are surprised, you were played for a sucker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now he is saying that Nafta is, &#8220;not so bad after all,&#8221; in an interview in Fortune magazine. This is no surprise to me. One of his chief economic advisers has been Austan Goolsbee, and most of the rest have been seriously &#8220;Chicago School&#8221; too. If you are surprised, you were played for a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1016,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-commerce","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}