Apparently, when he’s elected President, Barack Obama will single-handedly change Canada’s form of government:
U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, already under fire from fellow Democratic candidates for his supposed inexperience and unguarded comments on American foreign policy issues, is raising eyebrows again after vowing to call “the president of Canada” if elected to the White House to begin renegotiating terms of the NAFTA trade deal.
The titular miscue came Tuesday night during a discussion of trade and labour issues at a Democratic debate in the Illinois senator’s home base of Chicago.
“I would immediately call the president of Mexico, the president of Canada, to try to amend NAFTA, because I think that we can get labour agreements in that agreement right now,” Obama said. “And it should reflect the basic principle that our trade agreements should not just be good for Wall Street; it should also be good for Main Street.”
Senator, I’m not quite sure how to tell you this, but Canada doesn’t have a President. It’s a Parlimentary Democracy, which means that the Prime Minister is the head of the government. The Head of State is a woman you may have heard of by the name of Elizabeth II.
Stuff like this just reinforces the idea that Obama is an amateur, which is exactly what Hillary Clinton wants voters to think.
H/T: Virginia Virtucon
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Not even close to that idiot Bush, not even close.