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Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Canada/Nafta story

When I found out the Canadian/Nafta "leak" came from the political Chief of Staff to the PM about a week ago, I kinda stopped covering this, recognizing it as a political hit job, but, if you're still watching, you probably should read this, and this.

There's now a claim that the Clinton camp made the first "rhetoric doesn't mean anything" statement.

If you want to go in there, go ahead, but I'm not dealing with it.

posted by mikevotes at 7:51 AM

4 Comments:

  • I think the "story" here is not the substance (or lack thereof) of the "leak," but the larger, shadowy, voter manipulation of the "incident." There are many players -- and many layers -- here.

    I thing the entire political theater of this story -- from it's inception to its developing morphing a life of its own at the hands of politicians and bloviators -- to be an interesting case study for a political science major.

    By Blogger -epm, at 9:10 AM  

  • Yeah, but like most dirty tricks, you'll never get the full story.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 11:23 AM  

  • I know. I'm kind of intrigued by the international political gaming that may have been in play. That's what makes this story so different from the run-of-the-mill American dirty politics, I think. I'm more interested in the character study of the players than the content of any "memo."

    By Blogger -epm, at 12:12 PM  

  • I think it's pretty clear, separate from the body of the story, that this was put out with the goal of interfering.

    Hope they don't expect a favor early on.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:27 PM  

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