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RUSH: Now, according to the stack of stuff that came together today as I was prepping this show, there are lots and lots of stories in the Democrat stack about Obama\u2019s misstatements, his incompetence, his inexperience — and it\u2019s legendary; it really is — and then there are also some stories about women, Democrat liberal women and how mad they are and how upset they are. Not only has feminism screwed \u2019em up, so has Hillary. There\u2019s misery on the Democrat side. There really is. It\u2019s not reported this way, but trust me, there is — and again, it\u2019s another reason why we hope that Mrs. Clinton survives Ohio and Texas and continues to move on. Now, one of the items we talked about last week — and we were unable to confirm it last week; now it has been confirmed — during the debate in Ohio, last Tuesday night, Obama, tried to placate and pander to people who are having economic problems in Ohio, promised to get rid of NAFTA, promised to tear it up. Hillary said, ‘Well, I won\u2019t do that, but I\u2019ll renegotiate it.\u2019 It was obvious, the pandering. Then we learned last week that Obama, or one of his advisors actually called somebody in Canada and said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. That\u2019s just campaign rhetoric. We\u2019re not going to do that. You guys are our friends, and we know that.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Canadian TV network, CTV, reported this. Everybody involved denied it. Now it turns out that it\u2019s true. Thomas Lifson has it here at the American Thinker, and our old buddy Nedra Pickler at the AP is a contributor. Here\u2019s the thing. We have a long time to go here. We have a long time to chip away at Barack Obama. But as I said last week, it\u2019s going to be really touchy doing this. Obviously the people on our side are not going to vote for Obama anyway, so simply talking to them about what\u2019s wrong with the guy is not going to have that much impact because our side is not going to vote for him anyway. But the problem is going to be separating Obama from his faithful — not his voters; his followers, his faithful — and the wrong criticism is going to lock them to him even tighter. Now, I\u2019d love to tell you about this stuff and I\u2019m going to tell you about it. By the way, this Rezko land. John Fund wrote about it today. Robert Novak wrote about it today, and they\u2019re all saying, ‘It\u2019s going to be big. It\u2019s going to be huge! It\u2019s going to be big.\u2019 It may. But who\u2019s going to bring it up? <\/p>\n

Hillary hasn\u2019t been able to make hay out of it. You think the Drive-Bys are going to bring it up? They couldn\u2019t care less. But more than that, do you think Obama\u2019s faithful give a rat\u2019s rear end about the Tony Rezko deal and how Obama bought his house? You know, it strikes me… This is the kind of thing that we tried with the Clintons back in 1992, all of the character defects, the lying. It didn\u2019t matter. It really didn\u2019t matter. People were just so (sigh). People didn\u2019t care about it. When we tried pointing out the character flaws of Clinton, it just didn\u2019t matter. Now, this stuff with Obama is far more serious, and I\u2019m not minimizing how bad the Clinton stuff was, but this is worse. This guy is actually incompetent. He is clueless. He has a Clinton problem in that he will just change a story on a dime, and make it sound like everybody else heard him wrong the first time. Now, here are the details on this Canadian situation. I\u2019m going to read it to you as Thomas Lifson writes it up at the American Thinker. <\/p>\n

‘The man who tantalizes the unhappy voter with promises of change may be discovering that this diplomacy stuff may be a little more difficult than it looked. After threatening the NAFTA treaty while pandering to Ohio voters facing declining manufacturing employment, the Obama camp was blindsided by a report from the Canadian television network CTV that his campaign had privately reassured Canadian officials previously that he wouldn\u2019t really change NAFTA, no matter what was said on the campaign trail, that it would just be a Northern version of what the late Senator Patrick Moynihan called ‘Boob bait for the bubbas.\u2019 The Obama campaign denied such a meeting: ‘The Obama campaign told CTV late Thursday night that no message was passed to the Canadian government that suggests that Obama does not mean what he says about opting out of NAFTA if it is not renegotiated.” However, the problem is, ‘It turns out that diplomats often write up memoranda when they meet with people like campaign advisors to a leading presidential candidate in the United States.\u2019 This is apparently something that didn\u2019t occur to Obama or his campaign.<\/p>\n

‘So now that such a memo has turned up, widely circulated among the Canadian diplomatic corps, Team Obama is saying that those stupid Canadians weren\u2019t able to understand that their advisor really meant. Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports: ‘Barack Obama\u2019s senior economic policy adviser said Sunday that Canadian government officials wrote an inaccurate portrayal of his private discussion on the campaign\u2019s trade policy in a memo obtained by The Associated Press.\u2019 The memo is the first documentation to emerge publicly out of the meeting between the adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and officials with the Canadian consulate in Chicago, but Goolsbee said it misinterprets what he told them. The memo was written by Joseph DeMora, who works for the consulate and attended the meeting. Goolsbee disputed a section that read: ‘Noting anxiety among many US domestic audiences about the US economic outlook, Goolsbee candidly acknowledged the protectionist sentiment that has emerged, particularly in the Midwest, during the primary campaign. <\/p>\n

He cautioned that this messaging should not be taken out of context and should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans.” This is what Obama\u2019s advisor wrote, essentially saying, don\u2019t listen to us. This is campaign posturing. ”This thing about ‘it\u2019s more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans,\u2019 that\u2019s this guy\u2019s language,\u2019 Goolsbee said of DeMora. ‘He\u2019s not quoting me. I certainly did not use that phrase in any way,\u2019 Goolsbee said.\u2019 So, if we believe this version of the Obama campaign\u2019s story, then we have an important Obama advisor creating a seriously false impression in the diplomatic corps of our largest trading partner. Telling them that they didn\u2019t understand is not an excuse. Diplomats are supposed to be in control of their message.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The bottom line of all of this: ‘[I]f Team Obama is capable of screwing up relations with [Canada] the country most similar to us, the country that knows us best, and that has the biggest stake in the health of our economy and continuing American good will, imagine what kind of havoc would be created when dealing with the likes of the Russians, the [ChiComs], the Syrians, or the Palestinians.\u2019 By the way, Obama knows he\u2019s going to get a pass on this, even though Nedra Pickler has weighed in on it. I\u2019m starting to hear things from people that I heard back in 1992 during that presidential campaign. ‘How come none of this stuff is sticking? Why isn\u2019t it sticking, Rush? This is big stuff.\u2019 It\u2019s not sticking \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t matter to his supporters. It doesn\u2019t matter to his followers, not yet. It doesn\u2019t matter to his faithful. It\u2019s going to matter to a lot of people, but right now these people you see at the rallies are unaffected by this. We gotta keep chipping away at this stuff, but it\u2019s gotta be done the right way. It can\u2019t be overdone, can\u2019t wear people out with it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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