CHILL OUT, CANADA: Despite Tough Campaign Rhetoric Obama Will Not Touch NAFTA. Like Austan Goolsbee said, all that talk was just politics. I’m torn here: On the one hand, I’m frankly relieved by this broken promise, as by many others of Obama’s. On the other hand, I can’t help but want to mock the starry-eyed Obama-worshippers who thought they were electing a messiah rather than a Chicago politician. So, mockery it is!