{"id":20484,"date":"2015-04-22T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20484"},"modified":"2015-04-22T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:19:12","slug":"obama-says-elizabeth-warren-is-wrong-on-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/22\/obama-says-elizabeth-warren-is-wrong-on-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says Elizabeth Warren Is \u2018Wrong\u2019 on Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time Magazine<\/em> has the article Obama Says Elizabeth Warren Is \u2018Wrong\u2019 on Trade<\/a>. This article is about an MSNBC show that had a panel discussion about the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) that included President Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris, think about it,\u201d Obama responded. \u201cI\u2019ve spent the last 6\u00bd years yanking this economy out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Every single thing I\u2019ve 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\u2019re pushing now in terms of sick pay leave \u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when you hear folks make a lot of suggestions about how bad this trade deal is,\u201d the President continued, \u201cwhen you dig into the facts, they are wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Matthews kept asking the President why his fellow Democrats are saying these bad things about TPP.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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?<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 MSNBC would do the whole world a great service by getting both sides to talk to each other in front of the viewing audience.\u00a0 I don’t need a debate.\u00a0 I want to see an arbitration.<\/p>\n

Watch the MSNBC panel discussion with Obama here. Part 1<\/a> and Part 2.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time Magazine has the article Obama Says Elizabeth Warren Is \u2018Wrong\u2019 on Trade. This article is about an MSNBC show that had a panel discussion about the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) that included President Obama. \u201cChris, think about it,\u201d Obama responded. \u201cI\u2019ve spent the last 6\u00bd years yanking this economy out of the worst recession […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20487,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20484\/revisions\/20487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}