Taken out to appease Obama and not to be seen as undermining him at this late date. Just as I suspected and wrote the other day.
Obama put heavy duty pressure on them to take it out and the delegates do not want to seem to be undermining a popular Democratic President this late in his term. Some of the delegates promoting neutral language in the platform are actually anti-TPP. Bernie has been pushing very hard to get anti-TPP language in the platform. He met with Obama the other day and pushed his point of view, however, Obama was adamant that the language must stay in.
Obama did say in a speech that free trade was causing lots of problems for workers in First World countries, but that their solutions like Brexit were not appropriate. This is good though because it is the first time that Obama has acknowledged that free trade is anything less than sugar and spice and everything nice for Western workers. We’re getting them to talk to the talk! Good! See, politics can work in the US, sort of…
Well what solutions should there be then, Obama? Obama says the solution to the problems posed to Western workers by free trade is apparently more free trade! These politicians crack me up; their discourse is so irrational! I can’t believe how many people are fooled by these silver-tongued clowns.
I now feel better about this and am less worried about Hillary trying to sneak the TPP through when she gets in. However, I know that Obama is going to try to do exactly that during the lame duck session of Congress coming up. Boy, Obama is really adamant about this TPP nightmare, isn’t he? As I wrote the other day, these elites just don’t get it. Or maybe they do get it, but they don’t care. They don’t care how opposed we are to their insane neoliberal globalization crap. It’s good for the corporations and the rich, so they don’t care if most of us are against it, and we can do pound sand. Breathtaking. The only solution for these arrogant aristocrats is to toss as many of them out of office as possible.