The top-tier Democratic presidential candidates are speaking more these days on trade.

Obama accused Clinton of only recently changing her tune on NAFTA: 

“I think it’s important to note that Senator Clinton was a cheerleader for Nafta for more than a decade. As of a year ago, she was calling it a boon to the economy,” Mr. Obama told reporters here today. “It seems to me that the only thing that has changed in the last year is that it’s now election time.” ...

“As some of you probably heard at the debate the other night, Senator Clinton called Nafta a mistake,” Mr. Obama said. “I was pleased to hear her say that because, as more than 10,000 jobless Iowans know, that’s exactly what Nafta has been.”

Clinton said in last week's Las Vegas debate:

“Nafta is a mistake to the extent it did not deliver what we hoped it would.”

And a Clinton spokesman responded to Obama:

“Senator Obama must have been talking about himself because as recently as 2004, he was saying the United States should pursue trade deals like Nafta,” Phil Singer, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said in a statement. “The fact is that Senator Clinton has been voicing serious concerns about trade agreements for years.”

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