Mr. President, I take it personally:

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84. Politics is not the good guys vs. the bad guys.

It's one policy at at time. Republicans are bad guys because they are on the wrong side of virtually every policy that means freedom and a good life for you and me. But that does not mean that Democrats are always the good guys.

If President Obama thinks the TPP is so great, he should let us see it before there is a vote on fast track.

We are supposed to be living in a democracy. We are supposed to have a free press. When a treaty as important as the TPP is not released to the press before a vote is taken on whether to fast track it, then we do not have a free press. And the decision as to whether to release the text of the agreement to the press is the president's and the president's alone.

We are supposed to be living in a democracy. We elect representatives. They vote aye or nay on policies presented as bills. We are supposed to be able to contact our representatives and give them feedback and let them know our opinions on policies we are concerned about. We cannot do that effectively when the President willingly withholds from us information about policy, about a bill that we need to read (as he admits) in order to give meaningful feedback on it.

And then, the President has the gall to ridicule those of us who smell a rat, those of us who can see the damage done to our country by previous similar bills. He ridicules those of us who are reasonably opposed first to his withholding of important information from us and second to our inability to read the TPP before his propaganda machine silences us through its glowing sound bites about and agreement that we become more and more convinced is going to hurt us.

Please note that the people in Congress who most oppose the TPP have seen enough of the bill to warn us about it. And those people, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown and Bernie Sanders as well as Chuck Shumer, to name a few, happen to be the members of Congress who are most concerned about our domestic economy and the welfare of ordinary Americans. What a troubling coincidence.

The President's failure to publish the text of the agreement now (yesterday -- days or weeks ago) is unacceptable.

President Obama needs to release the full text of the treaty to the press and to the American people and let the chips fall where they may.

He seems to be worried that the rejection of the obviously lousy agreement will harm his reputation in history. Well, passing a bad agreement will hurt his reputation more. He might as well just let the American people read the agreement and get the pain of the rejection of it over with.

Because anything this secretive is bound to be, just like the NSA spying on us, a very negative, very harmful, very ugly idea. Let's get it over with, Mr. Presidentl. Just show us the agreement.