Bernie who has been speaking up for the middle, working class, & poor for YEARS is imitating Obama?

[Skwmom]

You can't make this shit up.

[cascadiance]

1. I suppose he's speaking about "renegotiating TPP" the same way Obama did about NAFTA?...

[Skwmom]

2. Bernie has a HISTORY of where he's stood on trade. He's walked picket lines. n/t

[cascadiance]

3. Yep! Which is why the notion you mention is so obviously a false one!

Bernie is far less nebulous about what he'd do with NAFTA and so many other issues that the 99% cares about!

[monicaangela]

4. Nebulous?

Bernie Sanders believes that the top priority of any trade deal should be to help American workers. Unfortunately, as Bernie has warned year after year, American trade policy over the last 30 years has done just the opposite. Multinational corporations – who have helped to write most of these trade deals – have benefited greatly while millions of American jobs have been shipped overseas.


Keeping Jobs in the U.S.: American trade policy should place the needs of American workers and small businesses first.

NAFTA: Bernie’s strong opposition to destructive “free trade” deals began with NAFTA in 1993.

Trade with China: As with NAFTA, Bernie warned in 2000 that Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China would help multinational corporations at the expense of workers and the environment.

Trans-Pacific Partnership: The TPP follows in the footsteps of the previous pro-corporate trade deals. It lacks safeguards to protect American jobs and the environment while giving massive benefits to large multinational corporations.


http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-trade/

[cascadiance]

7. Sorry, Bernie is anything but nebulous. Was contrasting with Obama's nebulous "renegotiating NAFTA"

... that he was campaigning on trying to have us feel like "hope and change" would come to our trade policies, which were actually made worse with the push to pass TPP and fast track, etc. Sorry if that wasn't clear in my post.

Bernie is quite the opposite of the nebulous campaigning of Obama's on trade, and has been very clear on how he'd push back on the TPP and other trade policies such as our guest labor programs too that take away both our sovereignty and American jobs.

[monicaangela]

10. Maybe I didn't read your post correctly

I know for a fact that Bernie has been against every Trade deal that has been passed. I have watched his career for years and am familiar with how he has voted on the issues. I listen to the Thom Hartmann program, and have heard Bernie Sanders speak on Brunch with Bernie for at least 10 years. I remember him warning us just as Ross Perot did of the coming doom of job loss if we started down the path of these Trade deals and the relations we have formed with China. Thanks for responding, I was confused at what you conveying.

[UglyGreed]

5. Bernie Sanders ad circa 1990

[Enrique]

6. Bernie's a lot older than most people in politics

and he's been in government a lot longer, including many years at the federal level. And yet people continually talk as if he's a newbie.

It especially galled me when Chelsea Clinton lectured him about how government works.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

8. Somebody is making this shit up

it is all they got

[nc4bo]

9. Yea, that's some real funny bullshit someone's trying to sell folks!

[Mnpaul]

11. The air must be getting thin

inside that beltway "reality" bubble.

[Hydra]

12. The Beltway bubble is sending us messages from another planet n/t