Obama seeks approach to counter anti-business image

[Enrique]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-22/obama-seeks-approach-to-counter-anti-business-image.html

Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is preparing new overtures to business that may start with a walk into the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a retreat with corporate chief executive officers, according to people familiar with his plans.

The Obama administration has been at odds with the Chamber, which fought Obama’s health-care and financial regulatory overhauls and committed $75 million to political ads in the midterm congressional elections, mainly directed against Democrats. The CEO summit would be a way to address complaints from some executives that the Democratic administration is anti- business.

The Chamber had invited Obama to speak on Dec. 2 and the administration hadn’t yet replied when the Chamber canceled the event, said an administration official. The cancellation wasn’t related to the president’s potential participation, said a Chamber official who declined to be identified.

The nation’s biggest business lobbying group has since invited the president to speak in January. The administration is considering the new invitation, which would place Obama at the Chamber shortly before he delivers his State of the Union address, said an administration official.

“We are and continue to be interested in speaking with them and their members, and we’ll see if the schedule allows it in the beginning of the year,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said today at his daily press briefing.

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[villager]

1. "Because we aren't craven enough yet, in the face of corporations"

n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Are they referring to the anti-business Bizarro Obama?

[polichick]

3. ....

:puke:

[NC_Nurse]

4. Why can't he just say that he's on the side of businesses thatare in the best interests of

the citizens of the U.S.

He supports businesses that produce products of value, that aren't criminal enterprises and that are sustainable. Not all businesses deserve to have the govt. on their side. Many don't deserve to exist.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. What anti-business image?

Obama has never been at odds with the Chamber - it is they who are at odds with him, even as he bends over backwards to make them happy.

[niceypoo]

9. "he bends over backwards to make them happy

We see how happy it has made them. Lets just hope he doesn't bend over forward for them now.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Unless he's planning to go there and tell them that they're a bunch of fucking liars

and that they need to come clean reg. their contributors. I don't see what this accomplishes.

[Loki]

7. Why fucking bother.

Big business doesn't give a flying fuck about us.

[Enrique]

8. "Corporate Profits Were Highest On Record Last Quarter"

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