"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton promises to start renegotiating NAFTA in her first 100 days if elected president," reports The New York Times. "Senator Barack Obama would use the threat of opting out as a hammer to demand strong labor and environmental standards in Mexico. The two Democratic candidates have heaped blame on the 14-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement for the plight of unemployed workers in declining Rust Belt towns where jobs have been lost to global competition. But what they are truly talking about when they criticize the agreement, which lifted trade and investment barriers among Canada, the United States and Mexico, is trade with Mexico."

In "Democrats Would Rather Mislead Than Lead on Trade," Daniel J. Ikenson, associate director of Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies, writes: