The Democrats’ Schism at a Mexico City Fundraiser

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The “NAFTA Generation” of Corporate Ex-Pats Deceived the Obama Campaign and the Attendees at a Fundraising Event Last Tuesday


By Al Giordano
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
July 24, 2008

Last Tuesday, an event featuring Maya Soetero-Ng, the sister of Senator Barack Obama who had successfully organized his February 19 victory in the Hawaii caucuses, was held in Mexico City to raise funds from US citizens abroad for the presidential campaign.


Maya Soetero-Ng, sister of US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, in Mexico City on Tuesday, July 22.
The host of that event, however, used it to launch what may become a civil war among Democrats abroad when he lectured the assembled – according to those who were there, aghast at what they heard – that “we need assurances” from Obama “about not reopening NAFTA.”

That the host also appeared at a recent event with Senator John McCain in Mexico City, wrote nice things in his newspaper column about the Republican presidential candidate, and repeated that praise of McCain at the Obama event on Tuesday, together with the host’s own scandalous history and association with a high-profile corruption case in Mexican politics, makes for an ugly situation.

It is probably only a matter of days before CNN’s Lou Dobbs, or the Republican National Committee, jump all over on this one, and so it is especially important that the true facts, in their full context, come out before the professional distorters get their hands on them to twist. The Obama campaign was not the perpetrator of this outrage, but, rather, one of its main victims.

The media smear machine need only add a few factual distortions to portray the story of this fundraising event, however falsely, as that of an Obama “flip flop” on the North American Free Trade Agreement and an imposed association with a shadowy figure of Mexican political corruption, all as a result of having raised a measly $40,000 or more.

The sad fact is that some of the “Democrats Abroad” in Mexico have long been associated with the corporate, pro-NAFTA, wing vestiges of the Democratic Party. It is they, those walking ghosts of the 1990s, who staged a coup-de-fundraising-event in Mexico City. They deceived the party invitees and the Obama campaign as to the identity of the party host (thus denying the campaign the ability to engage in the standard vetting practices that would have caused a change in the event’s location). They then proceeded to send in their shill to crap all over the event, the candidate, his sister, his platform and his supporters in the region in ways that could come back to hurt all of them.


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