The president of the liberal National Organization for Women says President Obama’s recent comments about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s opposition to his administration’s trade deal were sexist.
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) stated that President Obama’s criticisms of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) trade position were “disrespectful” and “perhaps” sexist on Tuesday. Brown said, “I think the president was disrespectful to her, by the way he did that.” And
The trade effort has put Republican leadership in an unusual position, supporting an Obama agenda item as members of the President’s own party push against it — witness Obama’s recent public sparring with fast-track opponent Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
By now, it is beyond cliché to point out the many ways in which President Barack Obama abandons his former positions when they become politically inconvenient. His reversal on free trade, however, stands out because it is the one reversal that faces significant opposition from within his own party, and specifically from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Recently Obama said that “Elizabeth is a politician just like everybody else.” That would, presumably, include Obama himself.
President Obama argued that “new trade deals are important to our values” and are “vital to middle-class economics” during his weekly address on Saturday. “Hi, everybody. I’ve talked a lot lately about why new trade deals are important to our
William Shaheen, the Co-Chair for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in New Hampshire stated that he doesn’t know where Hillary Clinton stands on the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Tuesday’s “With All Due Respect” on Bloomberg. When asked for Hillary Clinton’s position on the
Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball With Chris Matthews,” President Obama said the many Democrats against the Trans-Pacific Partnership fast track are “making political arguments that aren’t always entirely accurate,” like “the other side.” Obama said, “This is better than the Colombian
Tuesday at a a hearing on U.S. trade policy and the fast-track trade authority bill, long-time ally of President Barack Obama, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka testified that the fast track process is “unaccountable and un-democratic,” especially in light of the
Hollywood moguls and the vast majority of leftist entertainers have joined forces in a last-ditch effort to bully wavering Democratic lawmakers into backing President Obama’s fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as the centerpiece of what he calls his “pro-trade agenda.”
