Comments on: McCain: Dems Wrong On Renegotiating NAFTA

GOP Frontrunner Says Renegotiating Trade Agreement Could Jeopardize U.S.-Canada Relations

[b-easy63]

NAFTA was not that bad a deal. We need an avenue to trade our products with other countries. That avenue was opened with NAFTA. The question is, what are we going to trade since Mr. Bush opened up the highway for American corporations to export JOBS! That wasn''''t part of the original deal!

Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 06:49 PM : Feb 29, 2008


Puhleeese. Jobs have been leaving since the early 1990s. At that time, Chrysler relocated entire plants to Mexico and got rid of thousands of workers--this was a joint effort of Bush and Clinton and we all know this. Try your fvcking spin bs somewhere else.

[b-easy63]

"to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement would jeopardize crucial military support from Canada.



And yet, somehow...does anyone recall Canada''s participation in either Afghanistan or Iraq being crucial? McCAin''s handler''s must have told him that his only hope on economic issues is to try to find some sort of military component, then wax lyrically about it. LMAO

[samthetvcat]

kmccliment, I look forward to Rush Limbaugh getting another humiliating meeting with reality when after all his urging of Republicans to vote for Hillary she not only loses Texas and Ohio, but also loses Rhode Island and Vermont.

It''ll be almost as sweet as when Claire McCaskill and the great people of Missouri gave him the smack-down in the name of Parkinsons and stem-cell research.

Hard to believe anybody listens to him any more when he''s clearly only supporting McCain to maximize his listenership . . .

[samthetvcat]

The more I think about it, the dumber this idea of McCain''s seems to try and link Canadians pulling out of Afghanistan to NAFTA - because he supports NAFTA as-is, and Canadians are STILL going to be pulling their troops out in a couple of years because it has nothing to do with our position on NAFTA.

So now, not only is McCain going to have to explain why Canadian troops are threatening to pull out of Afghanistan while he the NAFTA supporter is the front-runner, he''s also going to have to explain why Mr. ''straight-talk'' tried to make the situation out to be something other than it was.

Rove must be losing his touch . . .

[kmccliment]

Attention all republicans in the Primary States soon to vote... I know it will be hard to keep the vomit down. But, vote for Hillary. This was cause the Democratic Party to continue to tear itself apart. Make a donation to McCain''''s campaign next week and pull the lever that says Hillary.. We''''ll thank you for taking one for the Team!

[jerryz7936]

All you women who supports Hillary. Why don''t you read the report online MSMBC. See how much she cares!!!!!!!!!!

From MSMBC Online, front page:

Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.

Where are her morals?????

[prinzowhales]

NAFTA is great! Americans don''t need any good paying manufacturing jobs...not when we can all get rich buying real estate for no money down!...and then investing our gains in lottery tickets!

[skymountain3]

I thought this was cool...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r2Da-GJ-_o

[smartprimate]

Guns and butter; everything is connected. Within one generation after the EU finally gets its act together it will be an economic powerhouse. Within two generations China will get the hang of a state-controlled semi-free market economy. Russia will side with whichever it feels will support its policies a Russia/EU pact or, more likely, a new Sino-Russian Alliance. This is the next generation%u2019s issue%u2026 not terrorism, but economic domination. Already many in the EU consider themselves European%u2026 not German, not French, and not Spanish. The only thing slowing them down is adding Eastern Bloc countries. But the addition of these countries will also eventually help the EU with %u201Cnew blood%u201D that will invigorate tired old Europe.

While NAFTA is causing some pain now, we need it for our future. North America has all the natural and social resources to be a match for any emergent future economic conglomerate. But NAFTA is the start; the other part of the equation is immigration, more specifically the Mexican question. Mexico needs to change. Trade and diplomacy is needed to transform that country into a viable partner and not a country we keep at arms distance.

Worker re-training and education needs to be improved and NAFTA is not perfect but we cannot become protectionist... it will cripple us in the end.

[incog-nito]

So, McCain is willing to let a flawed agreement that hurts U.S. workers stand, all for 2500 Canadians troops. Incredible.