Reply #10: Obama Campaign Lied About Canadian Embassy NAFTA meeting (an AP story)

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Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Obama Campaign Lied About Canadian Embassy NAFTA meeting
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4856355, Obama Campaign Lied About Canadian Embassy NAFTA meeting
Posted by carlotta on Mon Mar-03-08 06:10 AM

Now, they're admitting there was a conversation with the Canadian Embassy in Chicago--recall that last week they denied that there was any contact. And now, Obama's Economic Advisor Austan Goolsbee is just quibbling about the exact words that were used in that conversation. Tsk. Tsk.

SAN ANTONIO - Barack Obama's senior economic policy adviser said Sunday that Canadian government officials wrote an inaccurate portrayal of his private discussion on the campaign's trade policy in a memo obtained by The Associated Press.



The memo is the first documentation to emerge publicly out of the meeting between the adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and officials with the Canadian consulate in Chicago, but Goolsbee said it misinterprets what he told them. The memo was written by Joseph DeMora, who works for the consulate and attended the meeting.

Goolsbee disputed a section that read: "Noting anxiety among many U.S. domestic audiences about the U.S. economic outlook, Goolsbee candidly acknowledged the protectionist sentiment that has emerged, particularly in the Midwest, during the primary campaign. He cautioned that this messaging should not be taken out of context and should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans."

"This thing about `it's more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans,' that's this guy's language," Goolsbee said of DeMora. "He's not quoting me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080303/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_nafta