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Obama Hurls Insults at Liberals on Trade

2015-05-14

[OBSERVER] Mr. Obama's tirades on trade have included accusations that these liberal Democrats are ignorant about trade policy, insincere when offering their opinions, motivated by politics and not the national interest, and backward looking towards the past. Obama's repeated attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), in which he charged that Warren's concern about the trade bill is motivated not by a reasoned view of what is right for America but by her personal political motivations, is one of the most dishonest and repellant examples of character liquidation and contempt by any American president, against any leading member of his own party, in my lifetime.

Of course Ms. Warren, the most nationally respected liberal leader in American politics, is motivated by what she believes is right for the nation. Doubts about the trade bill are not limited to Ms. Warren. They are shared by the leader of Senate Democrats, Sen.

Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
(D-Nev.), the leader of House Democrats, Rep. Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
(D-Calif.), and a majority of Democrats in the Senate and House as well as a significant number of leading liberal economists.

For the President to suggest that he knows more about trade then all of them do, and that they are all ignorant about the trade bill and trade policy, is staggeringly false and contemptuous of many who have been working on trade policy far longer than he has and know far more about trade, in truth, than he does.

For Obama to question liberals' knowledge of trade, when he has chosen to keep the terms of the trade talks secret from the American people and most leading trade experts, and classified them as though the terms of trade talks should be equated with nuclear weapons secrecy, is absurd. As Elizabeth Warren and many others charge that the game is fixed, does anybody seriously believe that the highest paid lobbyists for the most wealthy global conglomerates that will reap the greatest profits from the trade pact are not aware of the key details of the trade talks that are being kept secret from most of the nation?

Posted by:Fred

#12 Thing is, Mr. Budowsky and the rest of his liberal ilk will suck it up and support Mr. Obama without question over the next twenty-two months. Because - politics.

Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-14 12:03

#11 Is the president who says liberals don’t know what they are talking about on trade intellectually unaware of this, or callously insensitive to this, or so contemptuous of liberals he simply does not care?

Yes…yes… and Hell yes.

Posted by: DepotGuy 2015-05-14 11:40

#10 Old Bolshevik's moment?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-14 10:54

#9 B,
No honor among thieves

Posted by: Warthog 2015-05-14 10:48

Posted by: 2015-05-14 10:05

#7 Mr. Obama’s tirades on trade have included accusations that these liberal Democrats are ignorant about trade policy, insincere when offering their opinions, motivated by politics and not the national interest..

That's rich coming from a know-nothing guy.

Obama criticizing the current privileged ruling class of bureaucrats and Communist Party functionaries. Hmmmmm, pass the popcorn for the Democrat internecine food fight.

Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-14 09:39

#6 Yep, they're old fashion. They still believe they need the votes of those privileged white blue collar workers, or at least filling the ranks in the coming civil war.

Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2015-05-14 08:36

#5 The problem here is this: All of the arguments are about process. Who has the power to make deals. Obama wants basically absolute power. Why?

Ahh, that comes down to the content of said trade deal. Libby is worried that the deal will contain all sorts of procedural details that allow the overriding of US laws that deal with finance e.g. Dodd Frank.

Other people, myself included, are worried that power to override our laws and BoR will be/are given to the UN or other international groups on any topic that can be spun to be trade related (see the elastic clause of the constitution), such things as gun-control, health care, labor law, etc. etc. may wind up as grist for the mill.

But, the content is all secret now. Do we want to trust the Rino Oligarchs and the Obama commie clique (oligarchs, too) to control all of this? I don't. Despite what is said by Commander Zero, once this deal is passed it will never be rolled back despite what language is in there that allows it. Bureaucracies never voluntarily give back power.

Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-14 08:12

#4 It's like a reverse McCarthy thing - "That communist over there, Princess Elizabeth, is much less of a communist than me!" I thought Globalism was a Serious Thing for leftists, but I guess the taint of icky money that isn't going directly into a pol's pocket wrecks the whole thing...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-05-14 07:49

#3 Ms. Warren, the most nationally respected liberal leader in American politics

Of course! [gag]

Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-14 07:15

#2 ......does anybody seriously believe that the highest paid lobbyists for the most wealthy global conglomerates that will reap the greatest profits from the trade pact are not aware of the key details of the trade talks that are being kept secret from most of the nation?

Someone at the Clinton Foundation should have the 'inside baseball' on this. Whom do we call ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-14 03:11

#1 Mr. Obama's tirades on trade have included accusations that these liberal Democrats are ignorant about trade policy, insincere when offering their opinions, motivated by politics and not the national interest, and backward looking towards the past.

As much as it pains me to agree with Obama...

Posted by: Secret Master 2015-05-14 01:09

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