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A War Of Lies Against The Chamber
Posted 10/12/2010 07:14 PM ET
Politics: President Obama has doubled down in his attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, continuing to call its ads foreign-funded. His charges are false and he knows it. If this isn't beneath his office, what is?
One needs to look hard to find any head of a major democracy as openly at war with his country's Chamber of Commerce as Obama is. His charge that the Chamber's $75 million ad campaign ahead of elections is funded by foreign sources is both false and an unprecedented smear, an accusation of a crime.
It's deeply disappointing coming from a country's elected leader.
Neither Europe's socialists nor Asia's combative leadership fight their chambers like this. Chambers of commerce, including the U.S. branch, generally seek pragmatic accommodation with those in power. Obama's attack on the Chamber is sadly reminiscent of the scorched-earth relations Venezuela's self-declared communist leader Hugo Chavez has with his country's business groups — and he makes no secret of wanting to destroy them.
Shockingly, a similarly antagonistic situation now exists in the U.S. center of world capitalism.
Based on a blog post from the Center for American Progress, Obama now calls the Chamber's ad campaign in defense of free markets not protected speech but "a threat to democracy." His embattled party still repeats the scurrilous claim that the Chamber's ads are foreign-funded because it receives a small amount ($100,000) of dues from overseas companies. But nearly all of these businesses are based in the U.S. and their dues are separated from ad funds. The White House knows this — or at least, should.
As the media, including the New York Times, gave this a good debunking, Obama refrained from continuing his charges Monday.
But his lieutenant, Vice President Joe Biden, "didn't get the memo," as Lucianne Goldberg quipped on her Web site. So Biden continues the dishonest line of attack.
"I challenge the Chamber of Commerce to tell us how much of the money they're investing is from foreign sources," Biden said Monday.
"Not a red cent," the Chamber replied, desperate to keep the lies from becoming a "truth" by repetition.
"These accusations by a George Soros-funded anti-business blog are unfounded, deceitful, and completely erroneous," the Chamber wrote on its Web site. "They are a desperate attempt to silence those who support free enterprise, and a diversion by people upset by their grim prospects in the coming election."
This sorry situation says two things about the Obama administration: One, it's willing to use the same Alinskyite tactics against a single target that it used to win elections. And two, it's at war with America's private sector.
A War Of Lies Against The Chamber - IBD - Investors.com
Next on his docket ,The Lion's Club ,Kiwanis Club,and The Boy Scouts.
The Chamber of Commerce represents businesses of all sizes nationwide. 96% of the Chamber's membership consists of small businesses with fewer than 100 employees... and yet the White House has called them "a threat to democracy."
This beg for an investigation into charges about the President receiving foreign donations during the 2008 campaign that were never seriously addressed ,although there was substantial evidence of him receiving many in his internet fundraisings(he avoided a FEC audit by not accepting Federal matching public funds).
His charges about the Chamber reek of hypocrisy. On November 6 ;less than a week after the election,the President will travel to Mumbai to address a business summit... a summit sponsored by 'The U.S.-India Business Council'.
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The U.S.-India Business Council, formed in 1975 to advance commercial ties between the world’s two largest free-market democracies, is hosted under the aegis of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
USIBC to host summit for Obama?s India visit | Articles | IndUS Business Journal
The bottom line is that there is no basis for the charges being leveled by the Obots ;and indeed they haven't even attempted to provide one. Instead they are asking the Chamber to open their books to prove the Obot's wrong. When Joe Biden challenged them to reveal how much of their campaign donations comes from foreign sources ,Tom Collamore, senior vice president of Communications and Strategy from the Chamber of Commerce responded "We accept the vice president's challenge here and now, and are happy to provide our answer"... "Zero. As in, 'Not a single cent".
If the President has any proof it is up to him to provide it . But he can't .
