Obama's campaign released a memo in response to the disclosure of Hillary Clinton's daily White House schedule showing she helped promote NAFTA:

Senator Clinton made her “opposition” to NAFTA a cornerstone of her Ohio campaign.  There was only one problem: she wasn’t telling the truth to Ohio voters.  Misrepresenting your position and carefully parsing your words when you don’t think you’ll get caught are the hallmarks of the kind of politics that Barack Obama is running to change.  That’s the kind of politics that led us into war in Iraq and gave us a tax code that lets those with offshore investments pay a lower tax rate than the average working family in Pennsylvania.  

Clinton responds without addressing the issue of her closed NAFTA meetings at the White House, and without acknowledging her advisor's communications with Canada during the Ohio campaign telling them not to worry about her NAFTA rhetoric:

Once again the Obama campaign is demonstrating that Sen. Obama's words can't be trusted. Last year, Senator Obama said that he would not engage in personal attacks. Now, after losses in Ohio and Texas, the Obama campaign is explicitly attacking Sen. Clinton's character. Instead of attacking Sen. Clinton, Sen. Obama should explain to the American people why his top economic policy adviser was telling the Canadians that his promise to fix NAFTA shouldn't be taken seriously. The fact is that independent accounts make clear that Senator Clinton did not support NAFTA and that she is the candidate Americans can trust to fix it.

I still don't understand what really happened with the Canada/Goolsbee communications. 

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