Obama takes to oped pages to push TPP Trade Deal

CNN ^ | 10/17/2015 | CNN

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama is taking to the op-ed pages of several local newspapers to make his case for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.

On Saturday, the Concord Monitor of New Hampshire published an op-ed under Obama's byline advocating for the deal and why it stands to benefit New Hampshire. The day before, the Tampa Bay Times published virtually the same op-ed by Obama, except it was tweaked to appeal to Floridians' concerns, mentioning "Florida orange juice" and citing the number of jobs supported by goods exported by Florida.

"This agreement reflects the realities of a 21st-century economy, where global trade plays an increasingly central role," Obama wrote in the Concord Monitor. "In fact, trade is a substantial driver of New Hampshire's economy. Over 20,000 American jobs are currently supported by goods exports from New Hampshire, with 32 percent of Made in New Hampshire goods exports shipped to TPP partners."

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

This means he anticipates trouble. Lets give it to him.

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

You can respond to his oped here: Obama TPP Oped

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

DeathBeforeDishonor1 :" This means he anticipates trouble. Lets give it to him."

At no point has he been a good negotiator
At no point has he demonstrated leadership , and has no leadership skills.
Go ahead ,... name one successul Obungler program ?
This demonstrates the last 48 months of him crippleing the American economy through deception and lies .

[DesertRhino]

LOL, he already won it. The Senate gave him fast track authority. Now all the senators like Cruz who voted for fast track can give us angry speeches and stamp their feet about how much they oppose it.
They can even vote against it!

Of course, its all meaningless theater now.

[DesertRhino]

The real vote on TPP was fast track. Its a done deal now, nearly unstoppable, just like the Iranian treaty was. Now it only passes on a simple majority and no amendments. And we have forsworn the “nuclear” option filibuster rule.
(the one used on us every time the dems come into power in the Senate)

Good fun. Welcome to dictatorship, the party runs the country now.

[laplata]

This is how he works.

He gets things very screwed up in one area, leaves it, and goes on to screw up something else and repeats the process over and over.

Right now his foreign policy is a total disaster and the Middle East is about to explode so what does he do? He basically lets thing take their course and goes on to TPP.

[Liz]

Republican votes for this atrocity are even more horrendous since Obama calls the TPP deal "central" to his second-term legacy, as well as to his "foreign policy" and "economic" agendas.

The text of the crucial vote which gave Boobamba fast-track authority on TPP was so classified, not even members of Congress were allowed to read it. Republicans voting in secret to insure Obama's legacy should be relegated to the trash heap of history---not running for president.

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PONDER THIS--TPP is best understood against the backdrop
of Obama's post-presidential get-rich-quick foundation plans.

NOW ISN'T THIS INTERESTING? few, if any, of the RCEP and TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int'l insider business deals.

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama's trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama's two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of). Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations.

All of Obama's thinly-veiled actions....

(1) promoting TPA and TPP,

(2) his immigration suck-ups

(3) his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN....

.....are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future get-rich-quick plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two get-rich-quick Foundations (two foundations that we know of).

All these entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in-wait for his share.

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WIKI REFERENCE: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012 at the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia.

[odawg]

“The real vote on TPP was fast track.”

Correct, and enabled by non other than Mr. Constitution himself, Mr. Consistent Conservative — Ted Cruz.

Who, mysteriously, also found cause to vote for the Corker bill, another favorite of Obama agendas.