Obama to Tout Amazon.com at Tennessee Speech

Amazon warehouse outside Chattanooga, TN.
Can you count the number of "middle-class" jobs in this photo?
(Image: timefreepress.com)

On Tuesday, July 30th, President Obama will visit Chattanooga, Tennessee, to deliver a speech about his administration's economic policies. According to WRCB-TV in Chattanooga, the address will be delivered at an Amazon warehouse. President 44 may very well cite Amazon's physical expansion and subsequent hiring as examples of America's middle class moving forward economically. It is unlikely the President will comment on the hundreds of small firms Amazon's Walmartization scheme will knock out of business.

The joint chutzpah of Obama and Jeff Bezos' Amazon juggernaut is breathtaking. Obama's Department of Justice has already gone to the mat for Amazon on the lucrative, influential e-book front: witness the recent, allegedly "consumer friendly" case against Amazon nemesis Apple and the major New York publishing players.  Meanwhile, the Obama administration has approved AWS, Amazon's data and cloud computing arm, to get hush-hush contracts with the CIA and NASA. Then again, this secrecy-obsessed administration may have found a kindred spirit with Amazon, which notoriously keeps the public at arm's length about its affairs.

One wonders why the president of the United States feels so compelled to publicly praise Amazon. What is the connection between the Obama Administration and Amazon? Why is this connection not questioned in major media outlets?