Remember when Obama was so beloved by the idiots in Europe? He went off to Europe in 2008 and spoke before something like 500,000 Europeans. He’s even tried to bring his own style of European socialist style to this country. But the love affair Europeans had with Obama is drying up. First it was the UK where Obama threatened to hold by trade deals if they left the European Union. Now it’s the people of Germany who are not only pissed off at the Muslim refugees wrecking their country, but also Obama, TTIP.
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Tens of thousands of opponents of a proposed transatlantic trade deal poured onto German streets Saturday on the eve of a visit by US President Barack Obama.
A loose coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and consumer protection groups in the northern city of Hanover said they drew a crowd of 90,000 to a march and rally outside the city’s opera house.
Police mobilised a large force to keep the peace and put attendance at 35,000.
Obama’s trip — to open an industrial technology fair and hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders — was intended to lend momentum to flagging efforts to see the world’s biggest trade pact finalised this year.
On a visit to London on Saturday, Obama sought to address sceptics’ fears head-on, admitting that some past trade agreements had “served the interests of large corporations and not necessarily of workers in the countries that participate in them”.
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has run into major opposition, not least in Europe’s top economy Germany, where critics have raised the spectre of eroding ecological and labour market standards and condemned secrecy shrouding the talks.
Like a lot of dumb Americans, who voted for Obama, twice, it’s only now these dumb Europeans are really learning what Obama is all about.