{"id":197135,"date":"2008-02-28T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/28\/obama-staffer-nafta-rhetoric-not-serious\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:34:00","slug":"obama-staffer-nafta-rhetoric-not-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/28\/obama-staffer-nafta-rhetoric-not-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Staffer: NAFTA Rhetoric &#8220;Not Serious&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This could be bullsh&#038;^, or it could be some staffer or economic adviser freelancing.<\/p>\n<p>Or the report that a staffer told the Canadian ambassador that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20080227\/dems_nafta_080227\/20080227?hub=CTVNewsAt11\">criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric, and should not be taken at face value<\/a>&#8220;, could be true.<\/p>\n<p>CTV is fairly reliable, and I think that Obama is way to savvy to knowingly let someone do this, even if that [b]WAS[\/b] his real position (which it probably is, he voted for CAFTA).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simply too politically stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it was one of his economic advisers freelancing, and whoever it was, they should be fired today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be bullsh&#038;^, or it could be some staffer or economic adviser freelancing. Or the report that a staffer told the Canadian ambassador that, &#8220;criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric, and should not be taken at face value&#8220;, could be true. CTV is fairly reliable, and I think that Obama is way to savvy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,964,1016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-international-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197135"}],"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=197135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}