Obama's Labor Day Speech (VIDEO)

And it’s insulting for Chait to equate Glenn with supposed “right wing equivalent­s.”  Greenwald is a deeply ethical, thoroughly honest and highly respected journalist who, with many others, is simply appalled by the Administra­tion’s lawlessnes­s; there are no “right wing equivalent­s.”

Also missing from Chait’s lecture to the “left” is any mention of the Obama Administra­tion’s embrace of the deeply corrupting influence of corporate wealth, its corrosive effect on democracy, and the huge disparity in income and wealth that now divides the richest 1 percent from almost everyone else. Every week we read of the White House adopting some position advocated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and friends, whether it’s about permissive and damaging energy extraction, lack of health and safety regulation­s, failure to protect labor rights in misnamed “free” trade agreements­, killing environmen­tal standards, and so on.  This White House seems bent on becoming the President of Big Oil, Big Nukes, Big Banks and Big Business, even as Obama betrays labor and neglects the needs of working America.

And what are we to think of the President’­s destructio­n of public campaign financing and embrace of fat cat funding?  Has Chait not noticed that Obama is working Wall Street and corporate America as hard as any President in history, to ensure he has a billion dollars with which to buy his reelection­?  Is that not something the “left” or indeed any ordinary American should care about?

Matt Stoller’s must read critique makes the point that “Obama has ruined the Democratic Party.”  I and others here warned about this over a year ago.  By now, some may not care, having given up on Democrats.   But whether the party can be salvaged or an alternativ­e emerges, it’s clear that Barack Obama’s embrace of GOP talking points, economic and other policies has made it impossible for any responsibl­e Democrats to support the President and still work for the values their supporters want and that got them elected.

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