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So the story from the press conference with Canada and Mexico is the ObamaCare/Supreme Court issue.
Left behind by the American media is that the neighbors are unhappy with Obama.
Canada's National Post quoted former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson as saying the North American Free Trade Agreement and the three-nation alliance it has fostered since 1994 have been so neglected they're "on life support."
Energy has become a searing rift between the U.S. and Canada and threatens to leave the U.S. without its top energy supplier.
Also...
The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Obama the U.S. will have to pay market prices for its Canadian oil after Obama's de facto veto of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Until now, NAFTA had shielded the U.S. from having to pay global prices for Canadian oil. That's about to change.
What about Mexico?
Excelsior of Mexico City reported that President Felipe Calderon bitterly brought up Operation Fast and Furious, a U.S. government operation that permitted Mexican drug cartels to smuggle thousands of weapons into drug-war-torn Mexico. This blunder has wrought mayhem on Mexico and cost thousands of lives.
The mainstream U.S. press has kept those questions out of the official press conferences, while Obama has feigned ignorance to the Mexicans and hasn't even apologized.
So now we have unhappy neighbors on both sides of us. Our cost for energy from our top source is about to go up - which means it goes up for all of us.
This is turning into a real disaster. He seems to be more friendly w/ the Russians than our neighbors. Just gives you the warm fuzzies, doesn't it??
Disgraceful that it takes a site like investor.com to tell us what our own MSM will not.
Four more years of Obama will be a greater disaster than the first four were for, in his own words, he will have "more flexibility" since he won't have to concern himself with another election.
Or perhaps like the story that you linked to; Investor's Business Daily which is an American owned and published news outlet?
By the way the Wall St. Journal story points out that the story is a bit more complex than it seems. And wasn't the complaints in 2008 that the U.S. wasn't getting fair advantage out of NAFTA?
Is this another damned if you do, damned if you don't thread?
While Obama is Concerned w/ ObamaCare, Our Neighbors are Getting Upset
And replacing Obama with a Republican who is obsessed with women's uteruses is going to help us how?
Never met a Republican obsessed with women's uteruses, and don't know what women's uteruses have to do with foreign relations. So that's kind of a strange question. Sounds like the person with the strange obsession is you.
But no Republican would have obstructed the pipeline regardless of women's uteruses so that's how it would help us in the situation. As far as the Mexico situation goes, I wouldn't say no Republican would conduct the Fast & Furious operation because that seems to have just been a straight up boneheaded move with no partisan implications, but -- no Republican would get the pass that Obama gets on the Fast & Furious situation from the media, so if it was a Republican administration it would be forced to clean up its act in a way Obama has not.
"Until now, NAFTA had shielded the U.S. from having to pay global prices for Canadian oil. That's about to change.
Canada has also all but gone public about something trade watchers have known for a long time: that the U.S. has blocked Canada's entry to the eight-way free trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an alliance of the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Peru, Chile, and Singapore. Both Canada and Mexico want to join and would benefit immensely."
Every country that is participating is going to have to make some modification," Obama told the press. Canada's take was far more blunt: "Our strong sense is that most of the members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would like to see Canada join," said Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in essence revealing that it's the Obama administration alone that is blocking Canada, and suggesting that payback on energy was coming.
So much for Obama's early claim that he was going to clean up the "mess" President Bush left with our allies and make friends with the world. One amigo muscling another out of a trade alliance isn't friendly.
As a Canadian I hope we get to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership without causing that much of an issue or hurting U.S./Canada trade Relations..I hope we can ll work this to benifit both our Countries and have it work to both of our Countires Advantages.
no Republican would get the pass that Obama gets on the Fast & Furious situation from the media, so if it was a Republican administration it would be forced to clean up its act in a way Obama has not.
I've been seriously watching politics since 1968 and I have yet to see a President of the United States, Republican or Democrat who has taken any flack for bone head investigations conducted by any of the numerous federal law enforcement agencies. NONE. And that includes the most nefarious of them all, J.Edgar Hover's version of the KGB, the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) that ran from 1956 until 1971 when it was exposed.
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