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Posted at 9:33am on May 8, 2008 US allies blast Dems on trade

By Soren Dayton

The European Union's Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair's right-hand man in Europe, blasted the Democrats for their isolationist rhetoric:

It is irresponsible to be pretending to people you can erect new protection, new tariff barriers around your economy in this 21st century global age and still succeed in sustaining peoples’ living standards and jobs. It is a mirage and they know it.

It is a mirage. It is the same mirage that led a representative of the Obama campaign to tell the Canadian government that Obama's isolationist rhetoric in Ohio was "just politics."

I can assure you that our allies are very worried about this. I recently attended a dinner of Europhiles in Washington in which a number of diplomats from left-leaning governments declared Obama "scary" and "ignorant" on globalization, Europe, and NATO.

Read on for more on Mandelson and other allies we are alienating.

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