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NAFTA Blowback

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:45:11 PM
Facts have a way of trumping populist demagoguery. The "tough" anti-NAFTA posturings by two Democratic candidates on Tuesday are now blowing up in their faces.

On Thursday, Canadian trade minister David Emerson warned that America's easy access to Canadian oil could be history if NAFTA were suspended or scrapped, as the candidates proposed. "Knowledgeable observers would have to take note of the fact that we are the largest supplier of energy to the U.S.," he said.

Canada supplied America with about 900 million barrels of oil in 2007. Mexico, our other NAFTA partner, shipped us 600 million. NAFTA gives us first dibs on Canada's and Mexico's production, a particularly beneficial trade-off right now. Ending NAFTA puts us in line with everyone else, and in the lovely position of begging Hugo Chavez and the Arab oil despots to make it up to us.

Canada is the biggest market for U.S. exports, and Mexico is No. 2. U.S. companies sell them $380 billion of Made-In-America products, which grew to that level because of NAFTA. Scrap the pact and the old pre-1994 tariffs would snap right back in.

Obama has lectured Clinton in the past that words matter. But his anti-NAFTA posturing shows either an ignorance of our dependence on trade or more likely an unwillingness to speak the truth about what NAFTA really means. Many Democrats display this weakness, especially on the pending free trade pact with Colombia.

Either Clinton and Obama can come clean with the truth about NAFTA, or they can wait until the facts slap them into reality.



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Is McCain Natural Born?

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:22:20 PM
On opinionjournal.com, is McCain natural born?

Having failed to gin up a sex scandal, the New York Times tries a new

tack to stop John McCain: 



*** QUOTE ***Mr. McCain's likely nomination as the Republican candidate

for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal

Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically

since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a

"natural-born citizen" can hold the nation's highest office.

*** END QUOTE ***



The Times labors mightily to present this as an actual controversy. It

notes that in 1790 Congress passed a law "that did define children of

citizens 'born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States

to be natural born,' " and, further, that "laws specific to the Canal

Zone," then a U.S. territory, leave no doubt that McCain was born a

citizen. So why does the Times think this is an issue? Because "whether he

qualifies as natural-born has been a topic of Internet buzz for

months." And if it's on the Internet, there has to be something to it. 



The  Chicago Tribune

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/

john_mccains_birthright_fit_fo.html

and the  Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/archive/

junkie070998.htm

have both dealt with this question, the latter way back in 1998, and

both concluded with little trouble that McCain is indeed natural born. So

he should have no problem--unless, perhaps, his mother had a caesarian

section.


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Barack, Hussein And Al-Qaida

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:16:58 PM
In blaming America first for al-Qaida in Iraq's presence, Barack Obama shows the difference between being glib and being articulate and just why John McCain should be president of the United States.

When McCain responded that "al-Qaida in Iraq" has that name because it is already there, Obama replied that there was "no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."

Slick Willie, meet slicker Barack, who is blissfully unaware that terrorists hate us for what we are, not what we do.

There are many reasons why we liberated Iraq, and John McCain whispering in George Bush's ear was not one of them. We did not "invade" Iraq. We went in under authority of U.N. Resolution 1441, which gave Saddam Hussein a "final opportunity" to give a full accounting of what happened to the WMD that the mass murderer used against his neighbors and own people, or there would be "serious consequences." Saddam didn't, and there were.

And as long as Obama's borrowing phraseology from other politicians, we're surprised he hasn't paraphrased the words of the late William Borah, whom he rivals in naivete.

On hearing of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, the Idaho senator lamented: "Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided."

Ah, if only Barack had been able to talk with Saddam . . .

The charge that our liberation of Iraq has caused terrorists to flock to Iraq disproves Obama's own argument that Iraq is not central to the war on terror. Better they flock to Iraq to be killed by American and Iraqi troops than flock to a Pittsburgh or Detroit to execute plans to kill Americans here.



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Does He Mean What He Says? If What Is It?

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:51:54 PM


Cartoons By Michael Ramirez

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All The CAIR Propaganda Fit To Regurgitate

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:40:16 PM
Michelle Malkin with more on the ABC "staged" news.

Steve Emerson weighs in on the ABC News staged Muslim bigotry stunt that I spotlighted yesterday . . .

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The Dan Rather Journalism Seal Of Approval

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:36:33 PM
Michelle Malkin again.

Dan Rather endorses the NYTimes–because he knows “responsible,” “outstanding” journalists when he seems ‘em. Trust him.

A Rather photo shop flashback . . .

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The Fence To Nowhere

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:25:41 PM
From Michelle Malkin.

Not that you needed any more evidence from me that the Secure Fence Act was the mother of all border b.s. measures to come out of Washington, but here’s the latest story to add to the pile . . .

I’m so sure John McCain and Juan Hernandez would do a better job.

Meanwhile, ahem, the $1.4 billion Mexican stimulus/border security plan forges ahead unopposed.

Your tax dollars (not) at work.




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Britian And Sharia

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:06:38 PM
(UK) Police to be 'Trained' in Sharia...


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CAIR Again

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:59:33 PM
Return of the CAIR Qur'an  Is CAIR re-embracing a version of its holy book that has banned by one of the most liberal school districts in the US as a hate book?
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ABC Fakes Muslim Prejudice, Unsurprisingly Finds 'Islamophobia' In America

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:57:13 PM
ABC's Manufactured Islamophobia  The network claims to be shocked by its own creation.
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Obama Staffer Gave Warning Of NAFTA Rhetoric

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:11:45 PM
The Obama campaign has denied this but the Canadian news service stood by their report.

Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama's campaign telephoned Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to the United States, and warned him that Obama would speak out against NAFTA, according to Canadian sources.

The staff member reassured Wilson that the criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric, and should not be taken at face value.

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al-Qaida In Iraq? Or Not? Ask Obama

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:04:46 PM
From the opinionjournal.com about how Obama views the war in Iraq.
McCain criticized Obama for saying in Tuesday night's

Democratic debate that, after U.S. troops were withdrawn, as president he

would act "if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq." 



"I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's called 'al-Qaida in Iraq,'

" McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas, drawing laughter at Obama's

expense. He said Obama's statement was "pretty remarkable." 



*** END QUOTE ***



Quips Glenn Reynolds: "In Obama's defense, he probably reads the New

York Times, which always calls it 'Al Qaida in Mesopotamia.' That may

have confused him." 



Obama's response to McCain, described in the same AP dispatch, makes

even less sense: 



*** QUOTE ***"I do know that al-Qaida is in Iraq and that's why I have

said we should continue to strike al-Qaida targets," he told a rally at

Ohio State University in Columbus. 



"But I have some news for John McCain," Obama added. "There was no such

thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to

invade Iraq. . . . They took their eye off the people who were

responsible for 9/11 and that would be al-Qaida in Afghanistan, that is

stronger now than at any time since 2001." 



Obama said he intended to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq "so we

actually start going after al-Qaida in Afghanistan and in the hills of

Pakistan like we should have been doing in the first place." 



*** END QUOTE ***



So let's see if we have this straight. Al Qaeda in Iraq isn't worth

fighting because it wouldn't be there if it weren't for Bush and McCain.

Obama is going to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq to go fight in

Afghanistan and Pakistan, although he will send them back to Iraq if al Qaeda

are there, even though he now wants to withdraw notwithstanding al

Qaeda's presence.


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Nail Barack Down On The Tough Questions

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:57:38 PM
McCain calls out Barack Obama for dangerous ignorance on Al-Qaeda and Iraq, but Obama is deft at ducking the tough questions.
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You Will Never Hear About This From The MSM

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:56:03 PM
"Who first made a big deal of Obama's middle name? Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE). Who ran around and talked about him selling drugs, and maybe being a coke dealer? Clinton Co-Chair Bill Shaheen. Who started playing the race card? Bob Johnson of BET. Who released the picture of Obama in the turban? Who forwarded that email claiming he's a Muslim? Clinton Inc. did all of this!
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Don't Just Accept What They Say

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:53:50 PM
"We have accepted too many of the left's premises for addressing social problems. You have Republicans telling us not to criticize 'health care is a right,' or ethanol, or call someone liberal; or we'll lose the election. Pretty soon our own people will succeed in shutting enough of us up, and liberalism will win without having to say a damn thing."
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