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Why didn’t Obama address the chicken trade issue?

Posted by: preaprez on: July 25, 2008

The Times criticized Obama for not addressing the poultry trade.

The Times criticized Obama for not addressing the poultry trade.

Some days I read the NY Times and just shake my head.

In reporting on Obama’s speech before 200,000 Europeans on Thursday, The Times said,

On Thursday evening in a glittering Berlin, Mr. Obama delivered a tone poem to American and European ideals and shared history.

But he was vague on crucial issues of trade, defense and foreign policy that currently divide Washington from Europe and are likely to continue to do so even if he becomes president — issues ranging from Russia, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan to new refueling tankers and chlorinated chickens, the focus of an 11-year European ban on American poultry imports.

Poultry imports? The NY Times wanted Obama to address 200,000 people about the chicken trade?

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