"...It’s Not The Pitch, It’s The Product"

[mia]

One thing is clear: Although Tony Blair laments the failure of the “political center,” this didn’t happen because he and his colleagues failed. It happened because they succeeded....

....Hillary Clinton broke with Barack Obama by declaring her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the latest bad trade deal. But, thanks to her campaign’s appointees on the platform committee, the Democratic Party’s draft platform does not include language opposing the TPP. Bernie Sanders was told that’s because the party doesn’t want to “embarrass“ President Obama.

Know what would really embarrass President Obama? Seeing his party lose the presidency to Donald Trump.

This omission doesn’t make sense - unless Clinton doesn’t really object to the TPP at all. That’s how the public is likely to see it, anyway. A failure to condemn the TPP would seriously wound the party’s chances - up and down the ticket, now and in years to come.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/dear-tony-blair-its-not-t_b_10755646.html

[tonyt53]

1. Republicans are backing the TPP as it was written! Sure changes are needed, but isolationism

isn't the answer. The TPP can be saved and made to be a workable agreement.

Now, who exactly told Sanders about "embarrassing" Obama? Why bash Obama anyway - at least he is actively campaigning to defeat Trump. What is Sanders doing? Raising money, and for what?

[mia]

2. Not about Sanders or Obama, but the ethics of the platform.

acts/omissions doctrine


The doctrine that it makes an ethical difference whether an agent actively intervenes to bring about a result, or omits to act in circumstances in which it is foreseen that as a result of the omission the same result occurs.

http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095349153