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Obama: Elizabeth Warren Is 'Wrong' On Trade
NPR ^ | 22 April 2015 | Domenico Montanaro

Posted on 04/22/2015 7:11:45 PM PDT by Theoria

A full-fledged Democratic trade war has broken out.

"I love Elizabeth. We're allies on a whole host of issues, but she's wrong on this," President Obama said Tuesday night in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, referring to liberal Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Warren and the progressive left, scarred by trade deals past like the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, have launched a vocal fight against granting the president so-called "fast-track" authority to negotiate a 12-country Pacific trade deal.

"Are you ready to fight?" Warren said at a rally April 15 with labor leaders and Vermont liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders standing beside her. "No more secret deals. No more special deals for multi-national corporations. Are you ready to fight? Are you ready to fight any more deals that say we're going to help the rich get richer and leave everyone else behind? Are you ready to fight that?"

Senate Democrats' point man, Harry Reid – normally a staunch Obama ally — has joined the "Hell no" caucus on trade.

"I have never, ever ... supported a trade agreement, and I'm not going to start now," Reid said Tuesday. "So the answer is not only no, but hell no."

Obama says progressives have it all wrong. He said "understandably" that some in labor and on the left would be "suspicious" because of past problems with NAFTA.

"But my point is," Obama said on MSNBC, "don't fight the last war. Wait and see what we actually have in this deal before you make those judgments."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Nevada; US: Ohio; US: Vermont
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1 posted on 04/22/2015 7:11:45 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

That bitch is a communist. She is a total enemy of our country.


2 posted on 04/22/2015 7:14:01 PM PDT by iowacornman (Speak out with courage!!)
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To: Theoria

Zero vs. Squaw Spreading Bull. Whom to root for ?


3 posted on 04/22/2015 7:14:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Theoria
Elizabeth Warren Is 'Wrong' On Trade

Hey, her "ancestors" traded Manhattan Island for a handful of beads and trinkets.

4 posted on 04/22/2015 7:14:59 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (The Iran Deal just dropped the Bergdahl Deal to 2nd worst in history.)
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To: Theoria

Wow! Talk about having to read about an argument between an animated pile of dog excrement and a decaying pile of cat excrement...


5 posted on 04/22/2015 7:17:43 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Theoria

One Doofus talking down to another Doofus.


6 posted on 04/22/2015 7:19:12 PM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: Theoria

*** DUELING COMMUNISTS ***


7 posted on 04/22/2015 7:21:12 PM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Theoria

TPP ends sovereignty.


8 posted on 04/22/2015 7:29:03 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: EagleUSA

Perfect!

Nice to see the “progressive Left” in a duel with itself, and humorous to see them using Alinsky as their choice of weapon.

Obama vs Warren
Hillary vs Warren
Warren vs Obama\Hillary
O’Malley vs Hillary

And then comes the Newsweek story tonight on Kelly File that’s been buried for four days. Hillary can’t catch a break.


9 posted on 04/22/2015 7:33:17 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Theoria

More leftist staged tactics designed to snooker white blue-collar and middle-class voters that Democrats have bled profusely from since Obama was immaculated.


10 posted on 04/22/2015 7:35:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (ANYBODY BUT FRICKING JEB AND HILLARY)
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To: Theoria
The sewer trout is probably disgusted no shiite muslims have thrown their turbans into the ring to run. INFIDELS, you're all infidels!
11 posted on 04/22/2015 7:59:13 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Theoria

Is this the same trade deal that calls for unlimited immigration for “workers”?


12 posted on 04/22/2015 8:30:22 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

probably.


13 posted on 04/22/2015 8:35:49 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Rusty0604

yes the one that Republicans support lock stock and barrel.

It’s the end of sovereignty for the US.


14 posted on 04/22/2015 9:13:06 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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>> “but she’s wrong on this,” President Obama said

Reality momentarily influencing of his tongue. Or, it’s a trap!


15 posted on 04/22/2015 9:17:02 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Theoria

She’s messing with Obama’s kickback.


16 posted on 04/22/2015 10:22:49 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: Theoria

Some people here agree with the far-left on protectionism.


17 posted on 04/22/2015 10:23:14 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: iowacornman

But she’s right on these secret trade deals where Congress abdicates its congressional responsibilities.


18 posted on 04/23/2015 12:18:10 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Rusty0604

Yep—the deal is a horror.

I didn’t think I agreed politically with Elizabeth Warren on anything!


19 posted on 04/23/2015 12:19:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Theoria
Senate Democrats' point man, Harry Reid – normally a staunch Obama ally — has joined the "Hell no" caucus on trade.

Sure Harry... you've been the Democrat leader in the Senate for how long? If you 'opposed' these trade deals then why did they pass? Hmmm? We all know that the positions of Senate Majority (& sometimes Minority) leader are ideally suited to gumming up the works.

20 posted on 04/23/2015 4:27:13 AM PDT by Tallguy
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