"i take it personally! said Obama regarding TPP disagreeing Democrats.
Well, I take it personally, too! Keeping your hearts desire a secret from the people that elected you is not the change we hoped for.
Trade unions, environmental groups and high-profile Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have come out swinging against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying it would send American jobs overseas.
“When people say that this trade deal is bad for working families, they don’t know what they’re talking about,” Obama told a group of about 200 volunteers and donors with Organizing for Action, an advocacy group formed by his former campaign team. “I take that personally. My entire presidency has been about helping working families
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Rinse, repeat
2015 Obama sounds alot like 1997 Clinton
Clinton Defends NAFTA, Heads To Costa Rica Tonight
MEXICO CITY (AllPolitics, May 7) -- President Bill Clinton, wrapping up his first official visit to Mexico, strongly defended the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) today in a talk to a cross-section of Mexican society.
"NAFTA is working, working for you and working for the American people," Clinton said in a speech at the National Auditorium. "In three short years and despite Mexico's worst recession in this century, trade between our nations has grown nearly 60 percent."
Clinton noted that Mexico is the United States' third-largest trading partner, just behind Japan, which has an economy 15 times larger than Mexico's.
"We must accelerate the pace of these efforts, to reach more people and more communities," Clinton said. "We must include more nations in our partnership, so that we can achieve our goal of a free-trade area of the Americas."
Clinton has been pushing for renewed fast-track negotiating authority to craft other Latin American trade agreements. That power expired in 1993, and Republicans in Congress have balked at giving Clinton broad negotiating authority.
In his talk, Clinton recalled when he and wife Hillary honeymooned in Mexico 22 years ago, and he included a Spanish phrase, "Me encanta Mexico" ("I am enchanted by Mexico").