Just chronicling the candidates' talk on our issues.  Obama today in Wisconsin:

While campaigning in Wisconsin, Obama took his own shots at Clinton, criticizing her for supporting the North America Free Trade Agreement while former President Clinton was president.

"You know, in the years after her husband signed NAFTA, Sen. Clinton would go around talking about how great it was and how many benefits it would bring," Obama said in Janesville, Wisconsin. "Now that she's running for president, she says we need a time-out on trade. No one knows when this time-out will end -- maybe after the election."

I have said before that I don't necessarily hang Clinton for what her husband did before, ... but she did do what Obama says.  She defended NAFTA.

A commenter pointed out this article.  Astounding!  When the Chinese government buys our companies, they don't pay our income or other taxes apparently.

Here is a pretty good synopsis of Clinton and Obama's trade positions.  It looks like Obama is a free trader, much more than Clinton.  Clinton has stronger statements, including opposition to the Panama, South Korea and Columbia FTA's.  Obama has not stated support or opposition, which worries me.  I must believe right now that he would support them.  Obama should be challenged on this.

I have raised questions about Obama's economic advisors, like Austan Goolsbee, who are free traders.  And this post provides more detail.  The corporate Democrat line that we should have labor and environmental standards, and trade adjustment assistance (burial insurance) seems prominent.  This strategy is a path to economic failure and collapse.  No jobs, businesses or farms will be supported in this, the strongest economy still in the world that can't reap the benefits from itself.

McCain is an unreformed wacko free trader living in la-la land.  He is not worth discussing further, as I've outlined his positions, in his own words, before.

UPDATED:  Obama did state opposition to the South Korea FTA.

"Senator Obama does not support the South Korea free trade agreement in its current form," Obama spokesperson Jen Psaki tells ABC News. "He has serious concerns about the effect that the agreement would have on the American auto, beef, and rice industries, as well as the lack of labor and environmental protections in the agreement. Senator Obama is also troubled that the Bush Administration has not done more to help American workers who are losing their jobs as a result of the changing world economy." 

Lots of things on the farm cause headaches. Right up near the top of the list is headaches caused by too much stress from biblical things like drought, flood, pestilence and disease. But nothing is more biblical than money. Luke manages to sum it up pretty well in Verse 12:16-21 in the Bible.

Of course, modern farmers have more reasons for monetary migraines than ancient tillers of the soil do, because not only do we have modern futures markets, but we also have the farm bill. I have survived more farm bills than Noah survived floods, because while Noah only had to make it through THE BIG ONE, I've had to wade through at least three Freedom-to-Farm farm bills. Each one seemed bigger than the one before.

 
It's sort of like biblical triple jeopardy.