The quite forthright Obama Administration😏👀😕

The following words are those of Paul Krugman writing in the New York Times. Here he is talking about the Asian trade agreement. I don’t know anything about the trade deal, so I’m keeping my mouth shut, but what I found entertaining was his observations about this Administration. 

It’s selling of Obamacare was forthright? How about Benghazi? This administration has done more obfuscating and misleading on things large and small than I can remember of any other in recent years.  Not a day goes by that I don’t read a press release or e-mail from one federal department or another with a curious spin on the truth (many of which I comment on in this blog).  How often has this Administration skirted the limits of its authority?

Oh well, that’s my experience anyway, do you agree with Krugman?

Instead of addressing real concerns, however, the Obama administration has been dismissive, trying to portray skeptics as uninformed hacks who don’t understand the virtues of trade. But they’re not: the skeptics have on balance been more right than wrong about issues like dispute settlement, and the only really hackish economics I’ve seen in this debate is coming from supporters of …

It’s really disappointing and disheartening to see this kind of thing from a White House that has, as I said, been quite forthright on other issues. And the fact that the administration evidently doesn’t feel that it can make an honest case for the … suggests that this isn’t a deal we should support.