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Old 03-06-2008, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Greenville, SC
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Oh, please. If that were the case, the Obama people and the media would have been ALL over it and trumpeting their discovery from every rooftop (and laptop).

Is the Toronto Globe and Mail the same type of rag, cough, newspaper as the London Daily Mail? I've found INCREDIBLE things about Obama in the London Daily Mail but haven't posted them here because it's not necessarily credible.
The story only broke today. Reuters has picked it up.

Top aide to Canada PM sparked NAFTA spat: reports | Politics | Reuters
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Old 03-06-2008, 11:38 AM
 
Location: Texas
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I've had CNN on all morning/afternoon. Nothing. Something "this big" would be SEIZED ON by the Obama campaign. Why don't you give them a call? I'm sure you have the number.
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Old 03-06-2008, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Greenville, SC
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I've had CNN on all morning/afternoon. Nothing. Something "this big" would be SEIZED ON by the Obama campaign. Why don't you give them a call? I'm sure you have the number.
I have the utmost confidence that Mr. Harper's and Mr. Brodie's offices are being contacted with phone calls as we speak. The major news outlets try to verify reports and give chances for response before they run them. Patience.

Jake Tapper of ABC is on it.

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Old 03-06-2008, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Well, I read the story and you're in error. First, it was posted yesterday. Secondly, there is only one line, without evidence, mentioning Hillary. The whole story is about the Obama memo.
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Old 03-06-2008, 11:58 AM
 
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What's the deal with these stories about "somebody" in the Clinton/Obama campaigns, talking to "somebody" in the Canadian gov't about someone saying something about NAFTA.....

I'd like to see some concrete proof of what was said. I'd like to see an interview with the actual persons involved. Seems like an awful lot of speculation and confusing misinformation is associated with these stories.
Couldnt agree with you more. I'm no fan of either, in fact I cant stand them, however someone said something about someone doing something sometime, does not make a credible story. At least give me a name. If they are upon to talking to the press, then they should be open to give out their name for scruteny.
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Old 03-06-2008, 12:32 PM
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Location: Pennsylvania
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The Clinton campaign also offered blanket immunity to any Canadian official who could provide names of any initiators or recipients of such contacts.
"Unlike the Obama campaign, we can and do flatly deny this report and urge the Canadian government to reveal the name of anyone they think they heard from. The Obama campaign has given a variety of misleading answers to the press and the public about its top economic adviser’s contacts with the Canadian government and should come clean about why they did so." – Campaign spokesperson, Phil Singer
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Old 03-06-2008, 06:12 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Anyone interested in the full, accurate story about what happened needs to watch this report from the CBC.

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/vsu/wmv-...memo080303.wmv
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Old 03-06-2008, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Washington state
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And you can bet that the TV media won't be reporting this.
Kieth Olberman is talking about it right now, but he's the only one I've heard it from.
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Old 03-06-2008, 06:21 PM
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Kieth Olberman is talking about it right now, but he's the only one I've heard it from.
That's not a shock. He's the most viscious anti-Hillary member of the MSM I have seen and always eager to publicise undocumented BS about Hillary.......
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Old 03-06-2008, 06:25 PM
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Location: Pennsylvania
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Anyone interested in the full, accurate story about what happened needs to watch this report from the CBC.

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/vsu/wmv-...memo080303.wmv
I just watched this. If anything, it implicates the Republicans and the Canadian government, not Hillary Clinton. If you ask me, this has Karl Rove's stench all over it, especially considering the Canadian PM is conservative.

I thought you said you don't participate in "gotcha" politics? If anything, this serves to show that potentially NEITHER campaign was involved. It in no way implicates Hillary.
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