# OFFICIAL: 2008 ELECTION THREAD

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**Created:** [January 3, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192 "2008-01-03T18:04:30Z")
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### Author: ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192/909 "2008-06-18T07:43:11Z")

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Good to see Obama wasn’t lying to the Canadians when he told them his anti-nafta rants were just political rhetoric to help him beat Hillary.

[http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/18/magazines/fortune/easton\_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008061810](http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/18/magazines/fortune/easton_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008061810)

> “Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified,” he conceded, after I reminded him that he had called NAFTA “devastating” and “a big mistake,” despite nonpartisan studies concluding that the trade zone has had a mild, positive effect on the U.S. economy.
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> Does that mean his rhetoric was overheated and amplified? “Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don’t exempt myself,” he answered.

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