The Audacity of Doublespeak

Anyone who knows my views on Barack Obama knows I believe the man to appeal strongly to people's ethos, throwing their logic out the window. I also know Obama is a bleeding-heart liberal, something I think eludes many of his followers. Little did I know, I can now add "disingenuous" to the list of reasons I dislike Obama.

On Wednesday, CTV reported that a senior member of Obama's campaign called the Canadian government within the last month -- saying that when Senator Obama talks about opting out of the free trade deal, the Canadian government shouldn't worry. The operative said it was just campaign rhetoric not to be taken seriously.

Turns out the man attempting to embody change in this election cycle is just a politician, identical to those he is trying to distinguish himself from, employing meaningless rhetoric to pander to certain interest groups in a hollow attempt to scrape together votes.

Furthermore, this highlights the impracticality of opting out of NAFTA. Saying you want to get out of our continental free trade agreement is going to appeal to jobless voters in places like Ohio, but as a national policy, it simply doesn't work. We live in a global economy, and some domestic industries have suffered as a result of this. However, I believe it is up to people who formerly worked in those industries to realize this, and work elsewhere. To try and preserve American industries, when they are obviously more efficiently run elsewhere, where more growth is possible, is a lost cause, and decremental to our national economy.