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Autumn

(48,263 posts)
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 09:03 AM Apr 2015

Obama Says Warren On Trade Sounds Like Palin Touting Death Panels [View all]

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/obama-says-warren-trade-sounds-palin

President Obama, speaking to the Organizing for America (OFA) Summit Thursday, said that people who have concerns about the Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority process and the still-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "don't know what they're talking about," and compared them to conservatives like Sarah Palin, who claimed that the Obamacare health care reform contained "death panels."

Then, on a Friday conference call with reporters the President complained about people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders saying, "Every single one of the critics who I hear saying, ‘this is a secret deal,’ or send out emails to their fundraising base saying they’re working to prevent this secret deal, can walk over today and read the text of the agreement. There’s nothing secret about it.”

In fact, the TPP is still secret, but parts of it have leaked. It will remain secret from the public until shortly before it is voted on in Congress.

The "death panel" remark is reported in The Hill, "Obama: Liberal trade critics ‘don't know what they're talking about’"


Has this man ever listened to Sarah Palin and her death panel bull shit?
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