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Obama calls Progressives ignorant, insincere, and motivated by politics. Libtards fire back.
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Democratic Civil War
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Date: May 12, 2015 11:44PM
Obama Hurls Insults at Liberals on Trade
Progressives called ignorant, insincere, and motivated by politics, sparking fury among President's base
By Brent Budowsky | 05/12/15 12:09pm
President Obama’s performance in pushing for approval of fast track legislation of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, in which he’s allied with Republicans and has spent the last week castigating and insulting liberal Democrats, has been one of the most bizarre and ill-advised performances of his presidency.
I spent many years working for senior Democratic Senators such as Lloyd Bentsen and House Democratic leaders beginning with the legendary Speaker Tip O’Neill, and have never seen any president of either party insult so many members of his own party’s base and members of the House and Senate as Mr. Obama has in his weeks of tirades against liberals on trade.
In Mr. Obama’s speech at Nike last week, his comments to Matt Bai of Yahoo over the weekend, and White House press secretary Josh Earnest’s comments to reporters on Monday, Mr. Obama and his White House staff have repeated a string of personal insults directed against prominent liberal Democrats in Congress, liberal Democrats across the nation, organized labor, and leading public interest and environmental groups who share doubts about the TPP trade deal.
Mr. Obama’s tirades on trade have included accusations that these liberal Democrats are ignorant about trade policy, insincere when offering their opinions, motivated by politics and not the national interest, and backward looking towards the past. Obama’s repeated attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), in which he charged that Warren’s concern about the trade bill is motivated not by a reasoned view of what is right for America but by her personal political motivations, is one of the most dishonest and repellant examples of character assassination and contempt by any American president, against any leading member of his own party, in my lifetime.
Of course Ms. Warren, the most nationally respected liberal leader in American politics, is motivated by what she believes is right for the nation. Doubts about the trade bill are not limited to Ms. Warren. They are shared by the leader of Senate Democrats, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the leader of House Democrats, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and a majority of Democrats in the Senate and House as well as a significant number of leading liberal economists.
For the President to suggest that he knows more about trade then all of them do, and that they are all ignorant about the trade bill and trade policy, is staggeringly false and contemptuous of many who have been working on trade policy far longer than he has and know far more about trade, in truth, than he does.
For Obama to question liberals’ knowledge of trade, when he has chosen to keep the terms of the trade talks secret from the American people and most leading trade experts, and classified them as though the terms of trade talks should be equated with nuclear weapons secrecy, is absurd. As Elizabeth Warren and many others charge that the game is fixed, does anybody seriously believe that the highest paid lobbyists for the most wealthy global conglomerates that will reap the greatest profits from the trade pact are not aware of the key details of the trade talks that are being kept secret from most of the nation?
http://observer.com/2015/05/obama-hurls-insults-at-liberals-on-trade/
Progressives called ignorant, insincere, and motivated by politics, sparking fury among President's base
By Brent Budowsky | 05/12/15 12:09pm
President Obama’s performance in pushing for approval of fast track legislation of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, in which he’s allied with Republicans and has spent the last week castigating and insulting liberal Democrats, has been one of the most bizarre and ill-advised performances of his presidency.
I spent many years working for senior Democratic Senators such as Lloyd Bentsen and House Democratic leaders beginning with the legendary Speaker Tip O’Neill, and have never seen any president of either party insult so many members of his own party’s base and members of the House and Senate as Mr. Obama has in his weeks of tirades against liberals on trade.
In Mr. Obama’s speech at Nike last week, his comments to Matt Bai of Yahoo over the weekend, and White House press secretary Josh Earnest’s comments to reporters on Monday, Mr. Obama and his White House staff have repeated a string of personal insults directed against prominent liberal Democrats in Congress, liberal Democrats across the nation, organized labor, and leading public interest and environmental groups who share doubts about the TPP trade deal.
Mr. Obama’s tirades on trade have included accusations that these liberal Democrats are ignorant about trade policy, insincere when offering their opinions, motivated by politics and not the national interest, and backward looking towards the past. Obama’s repeated attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), in which he charged that Warren’s concern about the trade bill is motivated not by a reasoned view of what is right for America but by her personal political motivations, is one of the most dishonest and repellant examples of character assassination and contempt by any American president, against any leading member of his own party, in my lifetime.
Of course Ms. Warren, the most nationally respected liberal leader in American politics, is motivated by what she believes is right for the nation. Doubts about the trade bill are not limited to Ms. Warren. They are shared by the leader of Senate Democrats, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the leader of House Democrats, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and a majority of Democrats in the Senate and House as well as a significant number of leading liberal economists.
For the President to suggest that he knows more about trade then all of them do, and that they are all ignorant about the trade bill and trade policy, is staggeringly false and contemptuous of many who have been working on trade policy far longer than he has and know far more about trade, in truth, than he does.
For Obama to question liberals’ knowledge of trade, when he has chosen to keep the terms of the trade talks secret from the American people and most leading trade experts, and classified them as though the terms of trade talks should be equated with nuclear weapons secrecy, is absurd. As Elizabeth Warren and many others charge that the game is fixed, does anybody seriously believe that the highest paid lobbyists for the most wealthy global conglomerates that will reap the greatest profits from the trade pact are not aware of the key details of the trade talks that are being kept secret from most of the nation?
http://observer.com/2015/05/obama-hurls-insults-at-liberals-on-trade/
Re: Obama calls Progressives ignorant, insincere, and motivated by politics. Libtards fire back.
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Date: May 13, 2015 12:12AM
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Date: May 13, 2015 06:15AM
I'm sorry, he is the President so he knows more about trade or he wouldn't be President.
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Date: May 13, 2015 07:53AM
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Date: May 13, 2015 07:58AM
3xG9h Wrote:
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> I'm sorry, he is the President so he knows more
> about trade or he wouldn't be President.
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> I'm sorry, he is the President so he knows more
> about trade or he wouldn't be President.
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Posted by:
dem senators fuck Obama
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Date: May 13, 2015 10:32AM
Shut his ass down
Re: Obama calls Progressives ignorant, insincere, and motivated by politics. Libtards fire back.
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idiotic rightwing rant
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Date: May 13, 2015 12:02PM
It's funny how they write an article about "hurling insults" but never once quote the text of the so-called insults. Oh that's right, republicans are retarded and believe anything you tell them, almost forgot that.
Re: Obama calls Progressives ignorant, insincere, and motivated by politics. Libtards fire back.
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Conserva-tards!
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Date: May 13, 2015 12:08PM
idiotic rightwing rant Wrote:
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> It's funny how they write an article about
> "hurling insults" but never once quote the text of
> the so-called insults. Oh that's right,
> republicans are retarded and believe anything you
> tell them, almost forgot that.
Conserva-tards!
LoLz!
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> It's funny how they write an article about
> "hurling insults" but never once quote the text of
> the so-called insults. Oh that's right,
> republicans are retarded and believe anything you
> tell them, almost forgot that.
Conserva-tards!
LoLz!
Re: Obama calls Progressives ignorant, insincere, and motivated by politics. Libtards fire back.
Posted by:
Ready For Hillary?
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Date: May 13, 2015 12:11PM
Obama is old news, were onto Hillary wiping the floor with Jeb Bush.
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Thas racisth!
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Date: May 13, 2015 12:16PM
idiotic rightwing rant Wrote:
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> It's funny how they write an article about
> "hurling insults" but never once quote the text of
> the so-called insults. Oh that's right,
> republicans are retarded and believe anything you
> tell them, almost forgot that.
It's an OpEd written by a 'Progressive' columnist in an NYC-based libtard pub you stupid Obama sycophant.
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> It's funny how they write an article about
> "hurling insults" but never once quote the text of
> the so-called insults. Oh that's right,
> republicans are retarded and believe anything you
> tell them, almost forgot that.
It's an OpEd written by a 'Progressive' columnist in an NYC-based libtard pub you stupid Obama sycophant.