Clinton didn't brief Canadian officials on NAFTA stand: PMO

[Liberalboy]

I was disgusted with Prime Minster Harper, and even more so now; this only makes Obama look worse, as though he will do whatever it takes to get elected (and before anyone flames me, I like the man...this is just an fyi post!)

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Hillary Clinton's campaign team has never told any Canadian officials that their candidate's anti-NAFTA statements are just political posturing, the Prime Minister's Office said Friday.

In the midst of the so-called NAFTA-gate affair, the PMO clarified — two days after it was first asked a question about the matter — that Canadian officials never requested, nor received, a private briefing from Clinton's aides on her position on the continental trade treaty.

"The answer is no, they did not," Sandra Buckler, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said Friday.

Meanwhile Friday, NDP Leader Jack Layton accused the Conservatives of employing their own form of doublespeak on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Layton cited a U.S. legislator saying David Emerson, Canada's trade minister, told him privately last month that he'd be willing to reopen the 15-year-old trade agreement.

"It sounds as though the government is saying one thing and doing another," Layton told the CBC's Don Newman.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/07/clinton-nafta-gate.html?ref=rss

[xultar]

1. Ok so since Hillary didn't contact them, I suppose everyone who called her a liar will

retract.

[Ronnie]

4. Speaking of retractions...

Will Keith Olbermann "update" his report on this?

[TheDebbieDee]

8. R U kidding? He has exposed himself as a Hillary-hater

of the first degree!

[Lucinda]

15. I'm not gonna hold my breath

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

2. Their daily flip-flopping is affecting their credibility. What's tomorrow's

story?

[LadyVT]

3. thanks!

[sueragingroz]

5. you have to take what Layton says with a grain of salt

he's a partisan.

[Liberalboy]

9. hehehe

that's why I like him. Go Jack!

[locker13]

6. no

It's just the Canadian branch of the Republican Party hasn't released the memo.

[Spazito]

7. This is just the PM trying to protect his Chief of Staff...

who admits talking to the reporters but "doesn't remember" naming specific candidates. Sandra Buckler, Harper's spokesperson, is a political partisan, the equivalent of Ari Flescher or Dana Perino. Here is an example of Ms. Buckler's work:

snip

"In an e-mail to The Globe and Mail on Thursday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's communications director, Sandra Buckler, said the military did not tell the government about the suspension.

Ms. Buckler called Friday to say she “misspoke” but would not say whether the military had or had not informed the government."

snip

"Ms. Buckler, when asked Friday whether the military had informed the government that the transfer of prisoners to Afghan jails had been suspended in November, would not comment."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080125.wharperafghan0125/BNStory/Afghanistan/home

Believing Conservative Prime Minister Harper/Sandra Buckler is like believing bush/Dana Perino.

What actually happened still remains to be seen, there is to be an investigation into both controversies, the Obama memo and the Chief of Staff's comments, how real it will be is questionable, we shall see.

[Liberalboy]

10. All the more reason

to topple this minority government and have an election!

[Spazito]

11. Oh yeah! I'm with you, we just have to give some backbone to

both Dion and Layton! And the election will only take 6 weeks max! I am SO ready for it!

[Liberalboy]

13. Amen!

I'll even take a Dion Minority government at this point

[Spazito]

14. Yep, I just want that lying POS harper and his minions gone...

whatever it takes!

[IsItJustMe]

12. LOL kool aid? tin foil? Hell I don't know.

[DerekJ]

16. Oh Come on! What do you expect them to do .. say yes, and make the situation even worse.

People heard him say it. There are witnesses