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scroll nafta, cat, mccain-feingold, staple remover, guy, and manifest destiny on a stage, heckler standing in audience. odd hat on girl. strange hairstyles.




NAFTA:
That's a good question but, as we said at the beginning, we don't want to answer any questions relating directly to our identities.

TROUBLEMAKER:
What are you afraid of?

NAFTA:
It's not a matter of being afraid. It's a matter of not being qualified. Look, you can say that I'm NAFTA, and you can say that NAFTA is on me, but in no sense am I the author of NAFTA. In no sense do I have any special understanding of or special responsibility for my content. Having said that, I do have thoughts on the matter, and I'm tempted to give them to you, but they would be just that--just thoughts--and not particularly well formed or well founded ones. I won't give in to that temptation because, unfortunately, such thoughts, once they have escaped this building, would be transformed into something else entirely.

MCCAIN-FEINGOLD CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM BILL:
Has NAFTA renounced important parts of itself? Eyewitness News at eleven.

NAFTA:
Exactly. And this undue weighting of our opinions has a lot of random and possibly bad effects, one of which is that those whose opinions deserve to be heavily weighed are moved to remove us from their holiday-party guest lists. So I take it back, it is a matter of being afraid, and that's what we're afraid of.

MCCAIN-FEINGOLD CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM BILL:
In other words, wait and ask him at the reception. After he's had a some wine and cheese.






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