Remember this old story??

[kentuck]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/politics/04nafta.html?_r=0

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The denials were sweeping when Senator Barack Obama’s campaign mobilized last week to refute a report that a senior official had given back-channel reassurances to Canada soft-pedaling Mr. Obama’s tough talk on Nafta.

While campaigning in Ohio, Mr. Obama has harshly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement, which many Ohioans blame for an exodus of jobs. He agreed last week at a debate with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that the United States should consider leaving the pact if it could not be renegotiated.

On Monday, a memorandum surfaced, obtained by The Associated Press, showing that Austan D. Goolsbee, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago who is Mr. Obama’s senior economic policy adviser, met officials last month at the Canadian consulate in Chicago.

According to the writer of the memorandum, Joseph De Mora, a political and economic affairs consular officer, Professor Goolsbee assured them that Mr. Obama’s protectionist stand on the trail was “more reflective of political maneuvering than policy.”

....more at link

[99th_Monkey]

1. Now i do. K&R

Thanks for the reminder.

[Octafish]

2. No. I don't remember that old story.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

How many banksters are in jail vs. the cabinet?

[DURHAM D]

3. Yep.

Obama's crew used back channels to tell the Canadians he was "Just Kidding". Then they tried to spin it that it was Hillary who did it and that didn't work out for them.

This was the campaign incident that caused Samantha Power (Goolsbee's colleague) to call Hillary "a monster" which resulted in her being fired from the Obama campaign. Not to worry however as Obama gave her a job on his transition team once he was elected and then sent her to the State Department.

[Autumn]

4. I think most of what he has done is “more reflective of political maneuvering than policy.”

Just my opinion.

[AtomicKitten]

5. Keith Olbermann tells a very different story:

The Canadian Government says it was the Clinton campaign who told them not to worry about NAFTA, not Obama's.

steven benen @ http://www.alternet.org/story/78962/nafta-gate_shocker%3A_did_hillary%27s_camp_lie_and_frame_obama

[Cheese Sandwich]

6. Kind of reminds me of this story

Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street backers: We get it

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton sounded like a woman on a mission after her long drive into the heartland: “There’s something wrong,” she told Iowans on Tuesday, when “hedge fund managers pay lower taxes than nurses or the truckers I saw on I-80 when I was driving here over the last two days.”

But back in Manhattan, the hedge fund managers who’ve long been part of her political and fundraising networks aren’t sweating the putdown and aren’t worrying about their take-home pay just yet.

It’s “just politics,” said one major Democratic donor on Wall Street, explaining that some of Clinton’s Wall Street supporters doubt she would push hard for closing the carried-interest loophole as president, a policy she promoted when she last ran in 2008.

“The question is not going to be whether or not hedge fund managers or CEOs make too much money,” said a separate Clinton supporter who manages a hedge fund. “The question is, how do you solve the problem of inequality. Nobody takes it like she is going after them personally.”
...

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-wall-street-backers-we-get-it-117017.html