<p>[Obama:</a> NAFTA not so bad after all - Jun. 18, 2008](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/18/magazines/fortune/easton_obama.fortune/]Obama:”>Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all - Jun. 18, 2008)</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>Does that mean his rhetoric was overheated and amplified? “Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don’t exempt myself,” he answered.</p>
<p>I don’t understand the argument. Obama and Biden have bamboozled hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money, partly for Obama’s wife, Biden’s son, etc while Sarah was trying to have the federal government chip in for its own city.</p>