The article I have chosen is from cnn.com. This article is titled “Obama mulls big speech to Chamber of Commerce.” The article is all about how when Obama took office his speech was almost bashing the Chamber of Commerce because of his beliefs that the Chamber was using illegal foreign money to influence the midterms, a charge the Chamber passionately denied. This has caused a gap between President Obama and the Chamber of Commerce especially with the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue. This article also states that there is talk about an invitation to President Obama to come into the Chamber of Commerce. This has struck up the idea that possibly after the New Year President Obama could give his speech when the new Congress convenes. It would be predominantly good timing for President Obama to try to get everyone ready and prepared for his State of the Union address which will be held later in the month of January. Additionally with this timing there is hope to “hit the reset button on his fractured relationship with the business community” in the Chamber of Commerce, but mostly with Tom Donohue. This to me would be a speech to the Chamber as an apology for accusing and attacking them when he first took the office.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/19/obama.chamber.commerce/index.html
This was all new to me...lol, but it is very interesting. It's good to know that our president would point out something like the Chamber of Commerce using illegal foriegn money to influence the midterms. It would be good if an invitation was actually given to President Obama in order to get rid of that gap between the Chamber of Commerce and President Obama. I believe in order for our to stay strong and appear strong to others we need to make sure all levels of our government are on the same page. So hopefully in the future President Obama and Tom Donohue repair their relatioship in a professional manner in order for the better of the United States and our image across the world.
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