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A parting favor as it were...
Or a farting pay-for...
for the services they rendered to TPTB - NAFTA, the Telecom Act, bank deregulation - and wants in on some of that action in his post-presidential days. He sure as shit doesn't want to end up like Jimmy Carter, building houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Hi Willy!
... "end up like Jimmy Carter, building houses for Habitat for Humanity"?
Imagine spending your post-POTUS days doing something selfless, and productive for others?
As we all know, Obama has to "feather his future nest" by cozying-up to corporations et al. Otherwise, the first AA president of the US would never, ever be offered lucrative speaking gigs, or money for bound-to-be-best-selling books, or a gig with any law firm in the country that would gladly pay handsomely just to have his name on their masthead.
Yeah, if he doesn't completely destroy his incredible legacy RIGHT NOW and leave office as the man who sold out his fellow citizens with a deal meant to ruin the country, destroy jobs, and the lives of every middle-class working man/woman, he would undoubtedly wind up destitute and forgotten.
>>> for those who don't "get it" - and there are more and more people here who obviously don't.
Jesus Hussein Christ. I often wonder where fuckin' common sense has gone to on this site.
... you just keep tellin' yourself that Obama is going to destroy the legacy he has achieved in office - which, whether you ackno0wledge it or not, is SUBSTANTIAL - because he'd rather go down in history as the POTUS who promoted a trade deal that ruined the country.
You tell yourself that, over and over. Don't be distracted by common sense. Don't be deterred from that ridiculous notion by any actual facts. And by all means, DON'T think for a minute that Obama will be inundated with lucrative offers UNLESS he sells out the country for his own personal gain.
Without kow-towing to corporate interests, the Obamas will of course wind up on a DC street corner wearing signs that say: "Hey, remember us? Will make speeches for food!"
This whole notion is so beyond ridiculous, I can't believe I am wasting my time commenting on it.
Do you honestly think that "transparency" in gov't means that every single thing will be open to public scrutiny?
Do you see anything in your OMG! it's an actual PRESS RELEASE about the negotiation in int'l trade agreements?
You DO know there are 12 signatories to this treaty - and what disclosure is made is up to all twelve of them, and is not up to the President alone.
... will be available on-line sixty days before the President can sign it.
This agreement has been in negotiation for years. Do you even grasp how ridiculous it would be to make every step of negotiations available to the public - when every provision contained therein is subject to change, often radical change, from one negotiation session to the next?
The "inevitable revolution"? "Peacefully resolved"? 
If this thing passes, and by some slim chance of a miracle something good comes out of it, the repubs will say, "see we did this and the Democrats were against it! On the other hand and more likely scenario, our country gets fucked up for a full generation and the repubs will say, "look what the head of the Democratic Party has done.
Either way, we get fucked.
