Obamas Chamber of Commerce Smear Is Business As Usual

By David Limbaugh The most noteworthy aspect of President Barack Obamas slander of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for allegedly stealing our democracy by laundering foreign corporate donations is that such disgraceful behavior is par for the course for this self-described post-partisan president. It is a mistake to believe that he was making a mistake.     The baseless charge was calculated and part of the Alinskyite strategy he and his thuggish team have used in virtually every political battle. Thats all they know. They pick isolate and demonize targets instead of debating the merits of their policy agenda items. We saw this approach on cap and trade the stimulus bill Obamacare and the financial reform bill and now theyre using it for the upcoming elections. They throw out damaging allegations knowing theyre untrue and doggedly pursue them even when their hand is called. In the case of the chamber smear CBS Bob Schieffer challenged Obamas senior adviser David Axelrod to substantiate the administrations claim. He said Mr. Axelrod ... do you have any evidence that its anything other than peanuts? Axelrod displaying the signature arrogance of the administration didnt even bother to offer anything concrete. He said Well do you have any evidence that its not Bob? In other words they can make whatever false charges they want and the burden of proof then shifts to their target to prove a negative. How can any American citizen regard this cavalier behavior from the peoples White House as anything less than contemptible? It appears the administrations only source for the smear is the Center for American Progress which is the administrations political arm. So the administration is the one not the Chamber of Commerce guilty of laundering -- the laundering of misinformation. It is serving as its own source via the manufactured tale spun by its incestuous political appendage. Even the liberal New York Times wrote

Closer examination shows that there is little evidence that what the chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or even unusual according to both liberal and conservative election-law lawyers and campaign finance documents.

The controversy noted the Times says

more about the Washington spin cycle -- where an Internet blog posting can be quickly picked up by like-minded groups and become political fodder for the president himself -- than it does about the vagaries of campaign finance.

Even with that unexpected smack-down Obama is without contrition.

Some say he backed off because he modified his charge to say its possible the chamber is engaging in such behavior. Thats letting Obama off way too easy. He knows his fabricated allegation was not true so it doesnt suffice for him to weasel out of it with language of probabilities. He deserves no slack for this. Indeed in his Philadelphia speech in which apologists say he backed off he broadened the sweep of his claim saying that other special interest groups are spending unlimited amounts of money on attack ads. ...

• It could be the oil industry.
• It could be the insurance industry.
• It could even be foreign-owned corporations.

Yes it could be Martians too. Why some people continue to give him the benefit of the doubt is beyond me. We read about the great disparity between the unpopularity of his agenda and his favorable personal approval ratings. Assuming poll respondents provide honest answers I dare say they are unaware of the volume of evidence that reveals Obama to be the partisan bully he is -- evidence that I lay out in copious detail in my book. Seeing just a partial list of these examples together shows how persistently he engages in this behavior. Just consider his and his administrations false claims:

1. That insurance companies were making obscene profits
2. That surgeons would amputate the foot of a diabetics at charges of up to $50000 rather than prescribe a diet
3. That pediatricians would order the removal of tonsils when a less intrusive treatment could work
4. That the Cambridge police had acted stupidly when he didnt have all the facts
5. That hedge fund creditors were bailout companies who wouldnt sacrifice for the public good when they objected to his grossly unfair Chrysler creditor restructuring plan favoring his union friends (they were not TARP fund recipients)
6. That Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell only opposed Obamas financial reform bill because he was in the pocket of Wall Streets fat cat bankers
7. That Fox News is not a news organization but a political arm of the Republican Party
8. That Arizona lawmakers had crafted a law to authorize racial profiling when the law expressly forbade it
9. That Republicans didnt have any ideas on health care -- just before he claimed he had adopted Republican ideas in his plan
10. That AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin was confused and incompetent in his finding that Obamas friends had misused stimulus money ...

... and dozens of other examples. David Limbaugh is a writer author and attorney. His new book Crimes Against Liberty was No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction for its first two weeks and remains on the list. To find out more about David Limbaugh please visit his website at www.DavidLimbaugh.com.