Trade: the four-letter word
Stephen Spruiell @ The Corner:
Two things: First, if Obama wants to put American workers first, why is he opposing a trade deal whose sole purpose is to open up Colombia's markets to American-made products? Over 90 percent of Colombian goods can already enter the U.S. duty-free. Second, violence against unionists in Colombia has fallen dramatically, from 275 killed in 1996 to 39 last year.After handing out the "Chavez Rule" last week, Nancy extended her "good wishes" to Uribe. I'm sure he was thrilled to hear from her at that point.
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Obama opposes the Colombia FTA because trade is a four-letter word among those "bitter" working-class Democrats to whom he sorely needs to build inroads. It's that simple.
UPDATE
Pelosi slaps Colombia in the face
Finally, here is how Latin Americans view the situation: Hugo Chavez beat the United States, and Colombia is now all alone. She got in bed with Tio Sam and has nothing but shame to show for it. We just gave every country down there an object lesson in why it is foolish to trust in our friendship. This is how we gain friends in Latin America?
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Labels: Barack Obama, Colombia, Democrats, Election2008
posted by Fausta @ 5:00 PM
5 Comments:
I wonder if, when he received her good wishes, Pres. Uribe checked to see if there was a knife sticking out of his back.
No, he had already pulled it out.
Pelosi and the democrats have slapped Colombia in the face! This is not how we win friends and influence people in Latin America
http://foutsc.blogspot.com/2008/04/pelosi-slaps-colombia-in-face.html
Excellent post, Foutsc. I'm adding the link to the post
Rep. Pelosi and the Democrats may have just faced their Haile Selassie moment and didn't even realize that they failed the test. I can only hope that eventually they might get an inkling of this disaster in the making.
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