Thoughts: Why is Pres. Obama shoving the TPP down our throats?

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30. I don't resent him his wealth. I resent him the fact that it seems to be blocking his view of us.

RFight now, I see two sides.

On one side are congressional democrats, labor unions, human rights groups, and the vox populii, standing against the TPP.

On the other side are congressional republicans (sans support from their constituents, Republican voters hate this thing too) and the President, promoting it.

I have to weigh these two sides.

Either I can assume that suddenly the republicans have turned over a whole new leaf and are throwing behind wonderful, progressive trade legislation that will bring great and amazing improvements to the lives and well-being of everyone in all these nations, and that it's the Democrats et al who have flipped their fucking gourds

Or...

I can assume that the president is wrong on this.

Why would an otherwise brilliant man be so knuckleheadedly wrong about this? Simple, because he wants something out of it. Not necessarily anything that the rest of us want, mind you. He's not thinking about us here. He's thinking about the fact he has less than two years left in office, doesn't need to think about re-election, and he wants a nice influx of post-presidential perks, fetes, and back-scratchings. AFL-CIO probably isn't going to give Sasha a cushy prestigious job - but Citibank might.