Posted on 10/11/2010 11:11:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you are an American and you travel anywhere in the world in an official capacity, one of your first meetings is likely to be with the local American Chamber of Commerce.
Meeting with AmChams (as they are called) is an essential way to get a better understanding of how American businesses are doing in selling American products overseas. Members of AmChams (who are usually American) have an acute understanding of the local laws, the obstacles that foreign governments often place in the way of trade and the opportunities that exist for further investment.
AmChams are the tip of the spear when it comes to international trade. And without international trade, American business can’t grow. And if American businesses don’t grow, jobs don’t get created back here in the United States of America.
When President Obama talks about the supposed foreign influence that has infiltrated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he is talking about dues that are being paid by these AmChams back to the Chamber.
His argument is complete nonsense. It smacks of McCarthyism. The argument itself is delusional, and it makes me wonder if the president has taken leave of his senses.
Worse for the president, by attacking the Chamber of Commerce in such a violent way, he reveals his hatred for the private sector, which only serves to rile up his opponents even more.
The Chamber of Commerce is not an arm of the Republican Party. For example, it supported the president’s stimulus package. It supported the auto bailout. It supported the small-business loan program that the president signed last month.
The business of the Chamber is to support business, not support the Republican Party. But the Chamber finds itself supporting many more Republican candidates this election cycle because so many Democrats have taken an avowedly anti-business turn to the left, led by President Obama.
The Chamber has no choice, because the Democrats, with their agenda of higher taxes, more regulation, more litigation and more powerful labor unions, are seeking to Hugo Chavez the private sector.
The charge that comes from the president that shadowy groups may have an undue influence on this election is especially hypocritical, given that Obama won because of the influence of George Soros and his compadres.
We know that Soros and his friends in 2006 and 2008 spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding radical, left-wing groups like ThinkProgress and the Center for American Progress (ThinkProgress is the group that made the initial charges against the Chamber). These groups didn’t — and don’t — divulge their donors, but I didn’t hear Obama complain about them once during his campaign for president.
The president’s latest attack on the Chamber of Commerce shows one thing conclusively. He is losing it. And his team is going to lose the elections badly in less than four weeks.
Not to make too fine a point if it, but you’ve got to have it before you can lose it.
—...and it makes me wonder if the president has taken leave of his senses.—
I didn’t know he had any to begin with...
I think it was Einstein who said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The geniuses in charge of politics in the White House fit that definition of insane.
Desperation is revealing how tenuous Obama’s grip on reality is..and always has been. He’s Captain Queeg in the typhoon.
Now is the chance for a couple of Democrat senators to step up to the plate before it’s too late.
Except McCarthy was right.
I predict that next spring, some Dems. are going to pay him a visit and tell him to step down.
Losing it? Hell, he’s already lost it. May not have had anything to begin with. ;)
People really need to research their candidates instead of going with catch phrases and optimism.
People were trying to warn of this guy before he got to office, but they didn’t listen.
....And here we are.
I don’t know if we have until next Spring. Things are deteriorating fast.
Obama never had it.
Next, he’ll go after Rotarians!
I don’t know if we have until next Spring. Things are deteriorating fast.
And the narcissist-in-chief is getting more dangerous by the day. I really do beleive he is going to be forced to resign. They had better put the evil bastard on some kind of “watch”.
I smell real Sulfur.
They can always invent some tear-jerker of an excuse for him to take early retirement. Save his marriage or some crap like that. The Oprah crowd will buy it hook line and sinker.
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