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Overlooked: Obama to Speak at U.S. Chamber-Sponsored 'Business Summit' in Mumbai
Newsbusters ^ | October 12, 2010 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 10/12/2010 2:19:02 PM PDT by Rufus2007

When the likes of CBS “Face the Nation” moderator Bob Schieffer and The New York Times are calling out the Obama White House on its efforts to villainize the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, you have to know something is up. However, President Barack Obama hasn’t completely distanced himself from the Chamber, a fact which has gone largely overlooked by an increasingly skeptical media.

According to an Oct. 8 story posted on the IndUS Business Journal on its website, the same Barack Obama that publicly attacked the Chamber of Commerce for alleged foreign contributions is scheduled to speak to the U.S.-India Business Council just days after the upcoming midterm elections.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; campaignfinance; chamberofcommerce; india; obama; obamaindiatrip; palin
I guess he plans on making up with the Chamber after the election. Way to think ahead...
1 posted on 10/12/2010 2:19:09 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

and what are the odds the invitation will be withdrawn?


2 posted on 10/12/2010 2:20:31 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Rufus2007

Bump


3 posted on 10/12/2010 2:21:47 PM PDT by opentalk
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Well, there you go. They are getting foreign support after all...
4 posted on 10/12/2010 2:25:37 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: Rufus2007

Or he’ll make some stupid comments about a global economy and needing India to fill some of the jobs we cannot seem to fill in the US mainland.


5 posted on 10/12/2010 2:26:23 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Rufus2007

Does life get any better than this...?


6 posted on 10/12/2010 2:28:29 PM PDT by moovova (My hand-held device comes in fashionably stylish-9MM, 40 cal, 12GA & even a demure yet perky .22 cal)
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7 posted on 10/12/2010 2:32:33 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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Why would 0bama speak to a business group in Bombay? Capitalism is on the rise and the people are being uplifted. What could he possibly contribute?


8 posted on 10/12/2010 2:34:29 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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I wonder how big of a donation the Chamber of Commerce wants to allow me to hack in to Obama’s teleprompter during his speech.


9 posted on 10/12/2010 3:01:44 PM PDT by kidd
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