Word: nafta
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news on a nightly basis. It was not good that Obama had consulted with the guy to buy a roomier plot for the Senator's Chicago home, even if Obama had paid market price for it and pronounced the move "boneheaded" in retrospect. There was also Obama's strange NAFTA flap with the Canadians, in which one of his top economic advisers assured America's northern neighbor - accurately, no doubt - that Obama's anti-NAFTA ranting was just "political maneuvering" and shouldn't be taken seriously. The problem there wasn't merely that the North American Free Trade Agreement...
...what I was trying to do, which was to tell people I would be a fighter for them, because I know that they deserve to have someone who gets up every day and works hard for them. And questions began to be asked about Obama and his positions concerning NAFTA and the stewardship of the economy and who was ready to be Commander-in-Chief on Day One. So clearly the people of Ohio and Texas wanted a President who they thought would fight for them and be their champion and was ready to manage the economy...
Over the last three days, Hillary Clinton has obviously thrown a lot at you. The kitchen sink, as you say, NAFTA, [controversial real estate developer Antoin] Rezko, 3 a.m. call. What hurt the most? You know, the truth is, in terms of what happened, in the last week, we were down 20 in all these states, and so we were working on closing the gap, but it's not clear to me that even if things were perfect that we could've entirely closed that gap. Partly because she's a very vigorous campaigner, and they had the resources...
...deliver real solutions to the lagging economy and soaring home foreclosures," both issues that have affected Pennsylvania, particularly in the formerly industrial sections in the West and Northeast. Obama's statewide chairman, Congressman Patrick Murphy, predicted that the candidates will also continue the Ohio debate over the legacy of NAFTA, which blue-collar workers in Pennsylvania blame for the loss of textile jobs...
...Then the polls stabilized, with Clinton holding a narrow advantage. The Obama campaign seemed caught off guard by allegations that a top adviser sent signals to Canada that Obama's tough talk on NAFTA was merely political posturing. By last weekend, the sting of eleven straight primary losses had faded, and Clinton volunteers say they felt renewed confidence. "Right after the Wisconsin primary there was an eroding of her poll numbers in Ohio," said Ted Strickland, Ohio's governor. "The closer we got to election day, the better I felt...