Yesterday I mentioned that CTV report of someone from the Obama campaign reassuring Canadian contacts that Obama’s anti-trade posturing is just a lot of bull. Team Obama denied it. Well, CTV has now named names, and suddenly the Obama camp is clamming up.
It was senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, by the way, who made the “don’t worry, he’s lying” call*. Libertarian-for-Obama Megan McArdle assures us that Goolsbee is a smart guy. Maybe in the classroom he is, but in the political arena he’s clearly in way over his head.
