NAFTA-gate: Part Two
Posted by Damozel | Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has an internal security team trying to track down the source of "a document leak that he characterized as being 'blatantly unfair' to Barack Obama. (Globe&Mail) Perhaps he means "blatantly inconvenient."
A piece by Alexander Panetta suggests that comments by Ian Brodie were the source for the leak. (Globe&Mail) She also notes that one source who heard him talking remembers him saying that Hillary Clinton's campaign had offered him assurances that they didn't mean what they were saying. (Globe&Mail) The story suggests that CTV started out investigating statements attributed to Clinton, but wound up reporting on Obama.
To me, this suggests that they didn't find anything to back up the Clinton story. Naturally, Obama supporters don't see it that way.
Could Hillary be just as big a hypocrite as their guy? they ask hopefully---those who don't go straight to asserting that this allegation proves that she clearly is. Unfortunately for them, the allegations of CTV that it was the Obama campaign are backed by an internal memo.
The memo reflrcts a conversation between Obama's economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and the Canadian embassy---a conversation which Obama's camp denied ever took place until confronted with the memo. (BN-Politics) They then shifted to arguing that the memo was "unfairly worded." (Globe&Mail)
Of course, we all know that Barack Obama would never, ever lie---the denial that any conversation ever occurred was obviously just an oversight---so we can assume that Goolsbee never said what CTV said he said. Enough said.
And now, of course, it looks as if it was Hillary all along---at least to those who see Obama through clouds of glory and rose-tinted sunglasses. Just as they suspected: because Obama supporters everywhere know that Hillary is a hypocrite.
Never mind that CTV apparently failed to unearth anything to back up Brodie's assertions, assuming he ever even made them (which he denies) or that his auditors didn't misunderstand him if he did make them.
So brace yourselves for NAFTA-gate: The Sequel, as Obama supporters seek to manufacture NAFTA-shaped bricks to hurl at Hillary out of what are not even straws.
Of course, given the known facts about Goolsbee's conversation, the best they can hope for is to prove that Hillary is, or might be, or might conceivably have been, an equal hypocrite.
I doubt they can do much worse to her than they've already done with the incessant bashing, whereas Obama without his halo is a whole different package. If they do succeed in---to borrow a dear friend's most eloquent spoonerism---tarring Hillary with the same feather, it will simply mean that both Democratic contenders are about equally besmirched.
People like me who are repulsed by hypocrisy will then have to choose between Obama, Hillary, and John "Keating 5" McCain.
The article's author, Alexander Panetta, describes him as having been "pilloried" by his opponents. (Globe&Mail) Furthermore, poor Obama has had to face "the most aggressive questioning of his heretofore smooth-sailing campaign."(Globe&Mail) I suppose that is a little unfair; after all, he is only running for president.
Naturally, Obama supporters are now all abuzz. See the chatter on Memeorandum here.
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