Obama's real Stand on Free Trade Treaties.

[illinoisprogressive]

sometimes opeds are just hit jobs and sometimes what someone says gets twisted around and misunderstood. I remember when obama said in a speech that he would send in a few forces into Pakistan and the press made it out to be that he would invade and go to war with that country. It was totally untrue and it was on video so no one could claim anything other than that they either twisted or misunderstood his words.
This is also what seems to have happened when he answered about free trade. here from AP is what was really said.
In New Hampshire yesterday he was asked by a member of the audience about the free trade deals and this is what he said:


Obama also said he would join his colleagues and support a pending trade deal with Peru that already has passed key House and Senate committees.

"The Peruvian agreement contains the very labor agreements that labor and our allies have been asking for," he said. "What I'm saying, is that the same provisions that we fought for — and that the AFL-CIO and other labor organizations had been asking for and that weren't contained in NAFTA — they are in this agreement."

Obama said he supports the foreign trade deal, which is especially important to labor and U.S. manufacturers. He said active trading is a key way to keep the United States competitive.

"We're not going to draw a moat around the United States' economy. If we do that, then China is still trading, India is still going to be trading," said Obama, who voted against the recent Central American Free Trade Agreement and opposes the pending trade deal with South Korea.

"I think that NAFTA and CAFTA did not reflect the interests of American workers but reflected the interests of the stock owners on Wall Street, because they did not contain the sorts of labor provisions and environmental provisions that should have been embedded and should have been enforceable in those agreements," he said.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gv3nibIqeeEEGWEtvdppAuH5WGCQD8S62E101

[MannyGoldstein]

1. And How Is The Peru Deal Good For Labor?

I'm missing something.

[papau]

2. Are there any provisions in the Peru agreement that lets us force Peru to obey its laws?

n/t