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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.25.24.94 with SMTP id o91csp458560lfi; Sat, 9 May 2015 04:10:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.202.195.23 with SMTP id t23mr1515154oif.117.1431169830995; Sat, 09 May 2015 04:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <brentbbi@webtv.net> Received: from SNT004-OMC4S19.hotmail.com (snt004-omc4s19.hotmail.com. [65.55.90.222]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fu13si4505240oeb.38.2015.05.09.04.10.30 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 09 May 2015 04:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of brentbbi@webtv.net designates 65.55.90.222 as permitted sender) client-ip=65.55.90.222; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of brentbbi@webtv.net designates 65.55.90.222 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=brentbbi@webtv.net Received: from SNT404-EAS322 ([65.55.90.199]) by SNT004-OMC4S19.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22751); Sat, 9 May 2015 04:10:29 -0700 X-TMN: [v1RDVbyHHgU4IQ6vvrhoT8lDxFYQwS8x] X-Originating-Email: [brentbbi@webtv.net] Message-ID: <SNT404-EAS32223D39B39ABE008831FE0DFDD0@phx.gbl> Return-Path: brentbbi@webtv.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Brent Budowsky <brentbbi@webtv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 07:10:29 -0400 Subject: Obama blasts liberals on trade To: Eric Schultz <eric_h_schultz@who.eop.gov>, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 May 2015 11:10:29.0591 (UTC) FILETIME=[C24DEE70:01D08A48] Good thing I do not have a column on Sunday, because if I did, I would blast= the living crap out of Obama for what he said about liberals at Nike, and where he said it, a= nd why he did it. And you can quote me. Maybe I will calm down by my next column deadline. T= hen again, maybe I will not. =20 SIX YEARS OF THIS HAS SO DEPRESSED THE DEMOCRATIC BASE THAT PART OF OBAMA'S LEGACY WILL BE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC BASE IN=20 TWO MIDTERM ELECTIONS THAT LED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE AND DEMOCRATIC SENATE, AND THE CREATION OF A REPUBLICAN SENATE AND REPUBLICAN HOUSE. I am sending a visible copy of this to John Podesta, because the biggest dan= ger to Hillary Clinton is not what Republicans say, and not what Peter Schweizer writes, bu= t that she=20 ultimately takes liberals too much for granted and ends up like Miliband in B= ritain, Herzog in Israel, and Harry Reid losing the Senate in 2014. For Obama to be insulting Harry Reid and Elizabeth Warren right now on trade= is the most politically stupid and maladroit move in my memory from any Dem= ocratic president---for Obama to be insulting labor unions and progressives right now on trade is no= t only politically stupid for his own position but it hurts Hillary Clinton by inflaming the ve= ry Democrats who have doubts about her that liberals such as myself are trying to remedy even= though I---- unlike many who travel in your circles---have no desire to get another high l= evel job in government and no desire to become a lobbyist for banks or consultant to B= ritish conservatives or give paid speeches to oil companies. For Obama to keep a trade negotiation secret and then tell liberals they don= 't know what they are talking about on a trade policy that is being kept secret from them= is absurd and Orwellian and the kind of contemptuous language and attitude that is the gr= eatest single reason that Democrats lost the House and Senate---and this attitude is the g= reatest single threat to Hillary Clinton's candidacy after Miliband and Herzog and Harry in= 2014 learned the hard way what happens when too many liberal voters stay home. And for Obama to say this at Nike, of all places, demonstrates his cultural a= nd psychological ignorance of how a majority of Democratic voters and activists view trade tr= ade policy and trade politics..... I read portions of this note to two Democrats whose names you know and told t= hem I would be sending to it people who could---if they chose----send this to Obama and C= linton and they told me send it, send it, and if they don't read it, write it publicly= because they need to hear it. Others will be seeing this, and Eric, you're a good guy and because you han= dle the press, I am alerting you to the fact that I might well be writing it= publicly soon because I am fed up to the gills with the attitudes Obama's comments convey and crony capitalist mentality th= at so permeates a Democratic establishment and did so much damage to what was once the Democ= ratic Congress. I am no protectionist, but I'lll be damned if I'll keep working to help Demo= crats who insult me like this----and insult so many Democrats like this----you can bet your ass t= hat I know what I am talking about, and so does Elizabeth, and so does Harry, and what Barac= k Obama has still not learned is that these insults of Democrats are the greatest single= reason his presidency has been lobotomized because he now must sit across the table with Speaker B= oehner and Majority Leader McConnell. Today I write this privately; I make no promises about tomorrow. Sent from my iPad=