Investors Business Daily Editorial: One needs to look hard to find the head of a major democracy as openly at war with his countrys Chamber of Commerce as President Obama is. 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 isnt beneath his office what is?
His charge that the Chambers $75 million ad campaign ahead of elections is funded by foreign sources is both false and an unprecedented smear an accusation of a crime.
Its deeply disappointing coming from a countrys elected leader.
Neither Europes socialists nor Asias combative leadership fight their chambers like this.
Chambers of commerce including the U.S. branch generally seek pragmatic accommodation with those in power. Obamas attack on the Chamber is sadly reminiscent of the scorched-earth relations Venezuelas self-declared communist leader Hugo Chavez has with his countrys 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 Chambers 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 Chambers ads are foreign-funded because it receives a small amount ($100000) 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 didnt 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 theyre 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.
- One its willing to use the same Alinskyite tactics against a single target that it used to win elections.
- And two its at war with Americas private sector.
