Obama’s Embrace of Free Trade, and the Subversion of Democracy

By Roger Bybee

Has President Obama allowed Karl Rove to design a key piece of economic strategy crafted to deeply alienate core Democratic voters four months before the crucial mid-term elections?

The notion is of course absurd, but you have to wonder how Obama's inner
circle of Wall Street-oriented geniuses—and his political advisors—dreamt up the president's new push for expanded exports via new "free-trade" agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.