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Obama Says Warren On Trade Sounds Like Palin Touting Death Panels
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/obama-says-warren-trade-sounds-palinPresident Obama, speaking to the Organizing for America (OFA) Summit Thursday, said that people who have concerns about the Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority process and the still-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "don't know what they're talking about," and compared them to conservatives like Sarah Palin, who claimed that the Obamacare health care reform contained "death panels."
Then, on a Friday conference call with reporters the President complained about people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders saying, "Every single one of the critics who I hear saying, ‘this is a secret deal,’ or send out emails to their fundraising base saying they’re working to prevent this secret deal, can walk over today and read the text of the agreement. There’s nothing secret about it.”
In fact, the TPP is still secret, but parts of it have leaked. It will remain secret from the public until shortly before it is voted on in Congress.
The "death panel" remark is reported in The Hill, "Obama: Liberal trade critics ‘don't know what they're talking about’"
Then, on a Friday conference call with reporters the President complained about people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders saying, "Every single one of the critics who I hear saying, ‘this is a secret deal,’ or send out emails to their fundraising base saying they’re working to prevent this secret deal, can walk over today and read the text of the agreement. There’s nothing secret about it.”
In fact, the TPP is still secret, but parts of it have leaked. It will remain secret from the public until shortly before it is voted on in Congress.
The "death panel" remark is reported in The Hill, "Obama: Liberal trade critics ‘don't know what they're talking about’"
Has this man ever listened to Sarah Palin and her death panel bull shit?
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(I was trying to create the pi symbol using my alt keys but it doesn't look like it worked out too well.. oh well.. )
anyway... WHAT YOU SAID!!
I extremely dislike his Third Way antics but when he says stuff like this. I can't even describe how I feel on DU.
I'm beginning to think he doesn't even know what the TPP is. Either he hasn't been involved in the negotiations and just gets briefs from an Advisor or two...or, he wants a "hands off" in case things go badly down the road, or something and can claim he was "misinformed." Who are these people with their "fundraising base" that he's so worked up about? 
"Every single one of the critics who I hear saying, ‘this is a secret deal,’ or send out emails to their fundraising base saying they’re working to prevent this secret deal, can walk over today and read the text of the agreement. There’s nothing secret about it.”