Barack Obama

I just find that I trust Pres. Obama on this one. His arguments just make sense to me.
While everything in it might not be the ideal of all possible worlds, it does seem to me the best we can get right now, in THIS world at THIS time, after extensive multi-national negotiations. And the environmental and worker guarantees are better than NAFTA.
It really is better than the status quo.

The fierce arguments against TPP seem to me a classic example of "the perfect as the enemy of the good". And they ignore the real political (and economic) downside of the US pulling out of a multi-nation agreement after 5 years of negotiations.

Even when I've disagreed with the President on some issues (the permit for Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic, for instance), I remember one of the best things about our president: that he's the kind of guy who thinks before he talks, and thinks before he acts. Whatever his decisions on whatever issue, I know that he's always, always, thought the issue through. Thoroughly and knowledgeably. That's been all too rare a trait in the preceding administrations.