Obama caught lying about Clinton and NAFTA

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Topic subject Obama caught lying about Clinton and NAFTA
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4167617, Obama caught lying about Clinton and NAFTA
Posted by MethuenProgressive on Wed Jan-23-08 08:12 AM

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/305 /
"I know that Hillary on occasion has said -- just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."
Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

No evidence she said that

Trying to depict Hillary Clinton as a flip-flopper on trade, Barack Obama claimed the New York senator considered the North American Free Trade Agreement a plus for the economy, even though she’s recently criticized the pact on the campaign trail.
"I know that Hillary on occasion has said -- just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy," Obama said during a Jan. 21, 2008, debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. "I think it has been devastating, because our trade agreements did not have labor standards and environmental standards that would assure that workers in the U.S. were getting a square deal."
Obama’s charge is designed to stoke suspicions among liberals and labor leaders that Clinton is in the thrall of big business Democrats who served in her husband’s administration, such as former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, chairman of Citigroup Inc., and ex-Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, her top economic adviser.


In June 2007, she said NAFTA had some positive effects “but unfortunately it had a lot of downside.” And at a debate in December 2007, she announced her intention to review and reform NAFTA if she were elected.
Obama implies Clinton views NAFTA as an unqualified success, but more importantly, he attributes words to her that only appear in a newspaper summary of the issues. We judge his statement to be False.