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In reply to the discussion: Why The "H" Is Obama Pushing TPP?. It Will Destroy Any Legacy He Has. [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)Obama, who has already established a "legacy" most presidents would envy, apparently thinks - as do so many here - that the TPP will destroy the American working middle-class, and THIS is what he wants to be remembered for. Forget all of his truly amazing accomplishments up to this point - what he really wants to do is obliterate all of that, preferring to go down in history as the prez who signed the treaty that erased everything he had achieved in one mighty swipe of the pen.
Obama is kow-towing to the Corporations because, let's face it, he's going to need the money once he leaves his current employment. Without some as-yet-to-be-determined quid pro quo compensation for doing the bidding of Big Biz, the Obamas - already wealthy people - will have to eke out an existence from the Prez's substantial pension income as an ex-POTUS, and the certainty that he will become, on the very day he leaves office, THE most in-demand speaker not only in the country, but in the world.
If all else fails, Obama can always scratch together a new book - although finding a publisher who's willing to fork out millions in advance monies for a book guaranteed to fly off the shelves still makes the whole venture a bit iffy at best.
Or it could be fame - yes, that's it. FAME. Unless he is successful in making life miserable for millions of American workers by signing an agreement meant to force them to work for Third World wages, the first black American president will face a world where he is completely forgotten - until he shows up on a "Where are they now?" montage put together by a seventeen-year-old film-maker wannabe who posts it to YouTube in the hopes that it goes viral.
So there you have it. Obama is willing to sell the entire country down the river in exchange for a "legacy" that makes him as popular as bubonic plague, will earn him "compensation" from Big Biz because he has no other means of making TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars, and will afford him the fame and name recognition that would have eluded him otherwise.
It all makes so much ... sense.