Obama Pulls a "Rove" on NAFTA?
Posted by D. Cupples (photo from Senate.gov ) | Lately, Barack Obama has been attacking Hillary Clinton for 
her alleged support of NAFTA. FactCheck.org indeed finds a mailer that Obama sent out about Clinton's NAFTA position "misleading."
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ABC News found inconsistency on Obama's part:
"Appealing to union voters in a dry wall manufacturing plant in this crucial primary state, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sunday afternoon said that even though he has repeatedly said the passage of NAFTA was bad for the country, he would not try to repeal it." (ABC)
According to No Quarter, Obama said that Hillary "was saying great things about NAFTA until she started running for President." Alegre at No Quarter disagrees:
"This is false. Hillary criticized Sen. Obama for sending out a mailer that claimed she said NAFTA was a “boon to the economy” when she never did. Today, the University of Pennsylvania’s FactCheck.org concluded “We do judge that the Obama campaign is wrong to quote Clinton as using words she never uttered, and it has produced little evidence that she ever had strong praise of any sort for NAFTA’s economic benefits.”
"Also, Hillary has been critical of NAFTA long before she started running for President. For example, here’s Hillary in March 2000:
'What happened to NAFTA I think was we inherited an agreement that we didn’t get everything we should have got out of it in my opinion. I think the NAFTA agreement was flawed. The problem is we have to go back and figure out how we are going to fix that. [Working Families Party, 3/26/00]'"
Senator Clinton accused Obama of taking a page out of Karl Rove's book, which may be a bit strong. Although, these misquotes and misunderstandings certainly seem like "politics as usual." Hasn't Senator Obama aggressively called for an end to "politics as usual"?
Memeorandum has other bloggers' reactions: NO QUARTER and Redstate, The Fact Hub, Political Radar, Political Punch, PoliGazette, Classical Values and The Carpetbagger Report
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