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Fred Sanders

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7. "The demanders of perfection so they can overlook any of the good" good folks will soon arrive

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:15 PM

Jun 2015

with visions of gloom and doom, armed to the teeth with group amnesia.

This is Obama's week...DU's regularly scheduled bashing will be suspended over the weekend, then Obama will announce a nuclear peace deal with Iran - next up on his Biggest Hits album, then the regularly scheduled programming can re-commence - we all good?

TPP? Take a Pissing Pass?

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I'm remembering back when President Obama was re-elected, how soooo many people were going on about [View all] underahedgerow Jun 2015 OP

Dont say suck it, say FUCK YOU GOP randys1 Jun 2015 #1

Then taste their tears. Initech Jun 2015 #29

He was going to take all the guns and raise taxes through the roof! The stock market would collapse Phentex Jun 2015 #2

BO ain't lame duckin' the TPP - the GOP loves him! polichick Jun 2015 #3

President Obama has proven over & over again that we can trust him on well, pretty much everything underahedgerow Jun 2015 #4

Do you understand that it is the twits in the GOP who were/are FOR the TPP? djean111 Jun 2015 #6

Ok, I hear you. So if it's so horrible and GOP supported, then why is President Obama backing it underahedgerow Jun 2015 #11

One theory is that he wants to pass it before Hillary has to actually answer questions about it. djean111 Jun 2015 #13

Those are interesting theories, but they don't really stand up to much scrutiny. President Obama has underahedgerow Jun 2015 #16

Well, we will each have our own theories and maybe we will never know what' up. djean111 Jun 2015 #21

I remember how the GOP and some Democrats hated HRC in the mid 1990s. n/t DhhD Jun 2015 #59

...because he agrees with the Republicans on trade policy...? Marr Jun 2015 #31

I don't have ANY problems with the TPP, even though some Republicans underahedgerow Jun 2015 #54

No, almost *all* of the Republicans support it, and *most* of the Democrats don't. Marr Jun 2015 #58

Gee, have you read the whole thing? How can you say it is wondrous? Why should we just take your djean111 Jun 2015 #60

Tbaggers aren't. They are agin it like you. Hoyt Jun 2015 #51

Oh, you lose points for the faked folksiness designed to lump (real) Democrats in with Tea Baggers. djean111 Jun 2015 #55

What I'm saying is simple -- if you can criticize those who want to see the final deal, by throwing Hoyt Jun 2015 #62

Again, why do you care? The thing is greased and ready. Citizen happiness is not necessary. djean111 Jun 2015 #63

Yeah, that's it. It's gazillionth dimensional TPP chess!!! cui bono Jun 2015 #8

I like NAFTA. I like the EU. I see that in the future with the expansion and increase underahedgerow Jun 2015 #14

Why do you like NAFTA? cui bono Jun 2015 #15

I think NAFTA needs a bit more tweaking, if that's possible. As a completely new concept it's a underahedgerow Jun 2015 #17

So, no benefits to our country? cui bono Jun 2015 #19

I think you fail to see the big picture in both NAFTA & TPP. It's not about the little guy, it's underahedgerow Jun 2015 #52

Support something like supply side coming our way to move the workers aside! n/t DhhD Jun 2015 #61

I think we can be confident that President Obama isn't a supporter of Supply Side Economic policies underahedgerow Jun 2015 #64

lol - pass that bong, would ya? polichick Jun 2015 #9

Yess, isn't wonderful how well he and the GOP are getting along these days re TPP kath Jun 2015 #5

Yet he just flashes those pearly whites or sings a hymn and people swoon! polichick Jun 2015 #10

Right? LOL it's as if - gasp... Drunken Irishman Jun 2015 #20

Well... polichick Jun 2015 #22

Well... Drunken Irishman Jun 2015 #23

Wow, a corporatist who sings Amazing Grace and talks real good! Swooooooooon!!! polichick Jun 2015 #24

lol Drunken Irishman Jun 2015 #25

And there's the "he's articulate" dog whistle... SidDithers Jun 2015 #34

You're smear is what is "Un-fucking-believable". snagglepuss Jun 2015 #36

It's not a smear, it's the fucking truth...nt SidDithers Jun 2015 #37

Nice try. My point was he talks good... polichick Jun 2015 #40

Nice try, but it your words are abundantly clear...nt SidDithers Jun 2015 #41

And yet you translated them into your warped crap. polichick Jun 2015 #66

Nope. No translation needed... SidDithers Jun 2015 #67

Serious question. How can he take credit for SCOTUS decisions? snagglepuss Jun 2015 #30

Did he take credit for it? Drunken Irishman Jun 2015 #32

Sometimes it's useless to argue using critical thinking. I hear 'ya. nt kelliekat44 Jun 2015 #42

Wow... SidDithers Jun 2015 #33

As for me, I'll wait to see how it all washes out. The President may be just what our trade kelliekat44 Jun 2015 #12

"The demanders of perfection so they can overlook any of the good" good folks will soon arrive Fred Sanders Jun 2015 #7

Yeah, and he's really proved his detractors wrong by teaming up with the Republicans to fight Chakab Jun 2015 #18

I hear a majority of own voted in the end for TPP Sheepshank Jun 2015 #35

You'd think that people with thousands of posts on a political message board would Chakab Jun 2015 #38

Yes one would think people would understand politics. Egnever Jun 2015 #43

Huh? If there was never any real intention of standing in the way of the TPP, why would the majority Chakab Jun 2015 #45

Obama isn't runing again Egnever Jun 2015 #46

If this trade deal that he's been championing isn't a steaming pile of shit, then why does he need Chakab Jun 2015 #47

Because a large portion of democratic base Egnever Jun 2015 #48

If it's not a steaming pile of shit, then why is the Republican establishment, who typically won't Chakab Jun 2015 #49

Negotiations are almost never done in the open Egnever Jun 2015 #50

Because we elected the people we trust to handle these types of negotiations. underahedgerow Jun 2015 #53

I am glad I can see the forest for the trees. Lame duck is not going to happen with Obama. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #26

... For ALL multi national tax dodging corporations! GummyBearz Jun 2015 #27

What are you saying? Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #28

He's saying nothing.. just ignorant cheap pot shots. Cha Jun 2015 #68

Would this be "smearing"? LOL Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #69

President Obama is reinventing the Lame Duck.. Cha Jun 2015 #39

kick Liberal_in_LA Jun 2015 #44

K & R Surya Gayatri Jun 2015 #56

Can someone direct me to the "Bash President Obama" thread? Orrex Jun 2015 #57

*Sigh* I know... I prefer to be a cynical optimist until someone smacks me up side the head with underahedgerow Jun 2015 #65