NAFTA: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns equally implicated in deceiving American people

"Psssst! Canada! Ignore us, it's just politics...."

by Dee Nicholson
March 21, 2008
The Canadian

The American state of Ohio has been battered by job losses as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), so it was not much of a surprise to hear Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton both slamming the deal there weeks ago, during a televised debate in their campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

What was shocking, however, was the revelation that aired on the CTV National News that both camps had made warning calls to Canadian officials (including Canada's ambassador to the USA) well in advance of the debate, advising that Canada shouldn't get upset about the statements as "they don't mean anything, it's just politics".

Meanwhile, Mr. Obama is talking about "taking the hammer" to NAFTA while Hilary wants to opt out unless it's renegotiated. (Like they aren't getting a fair deal, already)

Wow. Don't the two of them look like they are engaged in political theatre, presenting rather eloquent but disingenuous rhetoric to garner the electoral votes needed to grab the Democratic nomination? Maybe they didn't think they were lying, if they averted an international incident first. Or maybe they thought nobody stateside would notice, as long as the Canadians didn't get too uppity about it.

This was apparent malice aforethought by both political teams in an unusual synchrony, whatever their logic. The bottom line here is that both Ms. Clinton and Mr. Obama are revealed as opportunistic frauds with amazingly similar eloquent ass-covering styles.

Call me old-fashioned, but to my mind, the fabrication of ridiculously self-serving lies to get nominated ought to disqualify any candidate from holding public office. Are we so inured to lying politicians nowadays that we can catch them red-handed and will still vote for them? Are Americans? If so, ‘colour’ us doomed.

I found it intriguing that while both teams apparently talked to Canada, the media has not uncovered any such calls to Mexico, despite that nation's "equal" membership in NAFTA. An ironic twist is the fact that Ohio did not lose any jobs to Canadians, they lost them to Mexicans.

My humble opinion is that citizens of all nations deserve the truth and nothing less from their governors, whether elected or not. The universal criterion for government anywhere ought to be the good and honourable treatment of those being governed, which does not include lying to them.

In the battle for the Democratic nomination, we see exposed the dark underbelly of the American "Change" movement: both sides plotting and performing a veritable duet of the same fraudulent song and dance to seduce Ohioans with false promises.

There's a more important aspect to this whole shebang, however, and it's one to which all North Americans need to awaken, and fast: no matter who gets elected in any of our countries, NAFTA, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), and the burgeoning North American Union (NAU) are not going to be stopped by any of them.

Those strings are being pulled offshore, by foreign committees where Canada has the same number of votes as, say, Vanuatu. From there, our resources, our wealth, our health, our social support systems, our manpower, our very quality of life, are decided by binding trade agreements under the threat of isolation or sanctions.

What good is a democracy, when it has no power to decide?

Take a lesson from this basic truth and note the obvious: in Canada, we have two powerful parties happy to hand our sovereignty, our ability to self-rule our own country, over to foreign committees. (Is giving away the birthright of Canadians not a treasonous act?)

Just to make it interesting, we have a third party which makes a passing mention of debating the SPP in Parliament but, like Obama and Clinton, not really meaning it.

It's just politics. Bear in mind, what they're suggesting would be a debate about whether or not to participate in a constitutional crime.

If we allow such liars to govern us, what should we expect? Security? Prosperity? How?

Give your head a shake, Canadians, the path to a centralized world government in which our voices do not count at all is proceeding apace, while our Prime Minister tells us to go back to sleep, it's only about jelly beans, and if you're good you can have some tomorrow... honest.

Eventually, likely after the Liberals have shed Stéphane Dion and replaced him with globalist Michael Ignatieff, we will have an election. Try to be fully awake by then, so you can spot the liars, and determine which candidates actually want to ensure that our government is strictly Made in Canada.

Tell your friends, tell anyone who will listen: the Jelly Bean Cartel has us surrounded. Time to circle the wagons.

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