Obama in weekly address: 'No greater threat to our planet than climate change'

[kpete]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/17/weekly-address-climate-change-can-no-longer-be-ignored-0

[fredamae]

1. Ok, so he Supports

TPP And Fighting Climate Change?

How, exactly, does that work?

[montanacowboy]

2. He LOVES TPP

and warns us about climate change? give me a fucking break

[Fred Sanders]

3. Give me a fucking break...one thing is not the same as the other. Is TPP all Obama-bathers got??

Let's get a Republican to do trade and peace deals, shall we?

Stop with the screaming about problems....what is the solution?
Why do folks..on DU.. NOT trust Obama?

He made his TRUST the old fashioned way..he earned it.

[Plucketeer]

6. "Trust" as in ....

..when he just couldn't find any "comfortable shoes" to walk with labor???

You know, if I had VOTED Republican, at least I would've gotten what I voted for - gotten what I was led to believe I was gonna get for my vote and my support.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Iranian Mullahs and Republicans trust Obama more than Democrats so.... we should join them?? Got it!

[Plucketeer]

13. Honestly???

I'm not certain which faction I might side with. At least with the Republicans, they'll tell you what they're gonna do to you and laugh if you ask for lubricant. The other side extolls the virtues of what your body is about to receive - and the Vaseline will be provided free of charge.

[Fred Sanders]

14. That analogy is offensive...and makes no sense. In any of your delightful scenarios you still end up

fucked...but only one is true.

Not certain what side to go with? Really tough because......Republicans are SO similar??

[Autumn]

8. I'm finding the outrage over the lack of trust in this and the TPP to be hilarious

But I guess a speech on climate change now is better than nothing.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. all? That's a mighty big all.

From another current OP about TPP:

Let’s start with the Investment Chapter’s section on how the TPP’s member countries should treat foreign investors:

(snip)

Put in plain English, the above paragraph means that signatory countries renounce their right to favor the domestic ownership and control of the lands, waters, and other productive assets and services essential to the lives and well-being of their people.

TPP transfers all sorts of power from governments to corporations who make their profit by doing things that CREATE climate change, and who view climate change in terms simply of 'How can we make more money selling things to people so they can mitigate how badly climate change affects them personally?'

Is 'Republicans would sell us out via TPP too' all you got?

The solution is NOT to do trade deals written by corporations, for corporations, hiding them from the people. If your trade deals are designed to actually make things BETTER, there's no reason you need to hide them from people.

[raindaddy]

15. Lobbyists Wrote Obama's Trade Agreement...

Who would've written a Republican's?

[Wilms]

4. *@COUGH*@ TPP, Mr. President.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Give it a break...what is your solution? Tariffs? Taxes? No trade? Fortress America?

It is not a "Unions versus Obama" thing.....that is so simple minded as to be worthless, though very helpful for Republicans.

[Wilms]

10. "Unions versus Obama" ?? Have you got the right thread?

Talking environment, here.

[tridim]

26. Yikes. The TPP people are obsessed. nt

[drynberg]

11. Sorry, but your half assed efforts ain't nearly enough to change the terrible effects of

Global Climate Change...the seas will rise and cities bubble as the go under...the growing deserts of our planet will scorch in the rays of ole sol...and weather will never be the same...

[Fred Sanders]

17. Right....it is Obama's fault that the entire GOP refuses to do anything...thanks for the laugh.

[whereisjustice]

12. blah blah blah, talk is cheap - hold corporations accountable and ban govt. business

with corporations hiding untaxed profits in China and India, worst polluters on planet.

[Fred Sanders]

18. Yes, Obama must wave his black magic juju wand and fix everything, like right now, or he is a failure

Have folks not been paying attention to how Republicans stack up against Obama on climate change? After all, it snowed in February in Washington and one could throw a snowball in Congress! Who did that??

Thanks for yet another laugh. ODS is just that funny.

[whereisjustice]

19. He CAN ban govt. contracts with corporations doing business in offending countries, but

he has chosen to rely on the benevolence of corporations to self-regulate.

He has a lot of power at his disposal. He chooses instead to anger and betray the middle class instead of taking on the corporations doing the greatest harm to the planet.

That's what Republicans do, that's what Obama does. The difference isn't a matter of general direction, but degree.

[Fred Sanders]

20. There is so much nonsense and laugh out loud errors in three paragraphs....I do not know where to begin. Are you sure you are

on the right site?

[whereisjustice]

22. Bullshit - he CAN ban govt. contracts with companies that do business

that is within his executive authority and he HAS used this authority before as have his predecessors.

Lol @ team. I don't think your "team" needs any help. They are fucking us over just fine without you.

[Fred Sanders]

23. Some folks comments on DU regarding President Obama (D) are identical to some seen on RW sites, you ever notice that?

[whereisjustice]

24. Really? Which right wing sites demand Obama punish companies

doing business with countries who have worst environmental records.

Name one.

[Fred Sanders]

25. Right wing sites often make ridiculous, multiple demands of President Obama (D), similar to some at DU, was

my point.

[whereisjustice]

27. Let's see, banning contracts from companies who discriminate (good). Banning contracts from

companies who pollute by the largest amounts by proxy in India and China (ridiculous, multiple demands of President Obama (D))

[mother earth]

16. One has to be a steward of the planet, the environment to not hasten climate change, TPP is the

elephant in the room...but at least we got another nice little speech. We have to stop excusing our party and our president from speaking out of both sides of the mouth.

[DeSwiss]

21. Climate change isn't a threat.

- It's a reality. Now if you want to know what a threat looks like, go find a mirror......

K&R