Obama Says Elizabeth Warren Is ‘Wrong’ on Trade


Time Magazine has the article Obama Says Elizabeth Warren Is ‘Wrong’ on Trade. This article is about an MSNBC show that had a panel discussion about the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) that included President Obama.

“Chris, think about it,” Obama responded. “I’ve spent the last 6½ years yanking this economy out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Every single thing I’ve done from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training to what we’re pushing now in terms of sick pay leave … Everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal. Now I would not be doing this trade deal if I did not think it was good for the middle class.”

“And when you hear folks make a lot of suggestions about how bad this trade deal is,” the President continued, “when you dig into the facts, they are wrong.”

Chris Matthews kept asking the President why his fellow Democrats are saying these bad things about TPP.  Every time the President indicated that he didn’t know why, I kept wondering why he doesn’t talk to these people and ask them why.  From the commentary by Chris Matthews, he seems to have had shows that have only critics of TPP, and this show is only supporters of TPP.  If the two sides cannot understand what the other side is talking about, wouldn’t it be better to have a show where people from both sides talk to each other?

Knowing what a bill of goods Onama’s advisers were able to sell him on going easy on criminal Wall Street executives, it wouldn’t surprise me that he is falling for another set of equally bad advice.  MSNBC would do the whole world a great service by getting both sides to talk to each other in front of the viewing audience.  I don’t need a debate.  I want to see an arbitration.

Watch the MSNBC panel discussion with Obama here. Part 1 and Part 2.

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