"Obama should heed his own lofty words"

By Kevin Ferris

"There was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, minding its own business — or rather the business of its 300,000-plus members. It was about to launch the Campaign for Free Enterprise, a multiyear, multimillion-dollar effort to focus on the power and unlimited potential of free markets and entrepreneurship. The chamber wanted to remind Americans that these longstanding cornerstones of business are what made the country an economic powerhouse, and that the nation needs them if it is to climb out of the recession and create jobs."

"But the first round of the upbeat, nonpartisan, avoid-specific-issues, dream-big ad campaign had barely hit the airwaves when the White House declared war."