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In reply to the discussion: TPP: Obama's Free (but not Fair) Secret Trade Agreement [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)28. You are missing the big picture, Nafta was bad at first, but then Clinton took it up so its progress
Many horrible deals started by the GOP or the Heritage Foundation can become good, sometimes with the addition of only a few words. "Bill Clinton" were the only words needed to fix the language written into Nafta.
I always agreed that Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich's Heritage Foundation authored health insurance reform was bad, but then a good Democrat named "Barack Obama" added two words to the end and it became better than any health insurance product on the market!!
You don't understand just how transformative a Dem politician can be, such a powerful personality can turn bad Republicans into cabinet member heroes, and drones into peace planes just by the awesome power of personality.
Why, a good Democrat can turn coal clean!!!!
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I am most definitely against the TPP and hope it's rid of. As to my "affinity for the President" ..
monmouth3
Jul 2013
#13
You are missing the big picture, Nafta was bad at first, but then Clinton took it up so its progress
Dragonfli
Jul 2013
#28
Companies should not be able to pit minimum wage workers in different countries against each other.
reformist2
Jul 2013
#2
When are we going to start hiring CEOs from China to run our multinationals for $10 an hour?
reformist2
Jul 2013
#8
I did a google, the other night and found some interesting things, mainly from the Asian press.
Fuddnik
Jul 2013
#26
I will say this and have personal knowledge o it's truthfulness, Obama sold out to BP on the oil
Dustlawyer
Jul 2013
#18
definitely not Obama bashing. It's undemocratic. Giving corporations immunity has gone too far.
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#23
Well, in a normal world, the right would be against it because it gives powers outside the USA too
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#38