The President Has No Shame

Add this to Obama's "accomplishments":

President Obama today named AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The award is presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

I don't think union presidents and "freedom" are necessarily compatible.  The AFL-CIO opposes school choice, secret voting for union membership, vouchers, charter schools, tax cuts, right to work legislation, and, generally speaking, free markets and free trade.

It's not like the AFL-CIO is going to start supporting the GOP if Obama doesn't grant this reward, but perhaps it's Barry's way of saying thanks for their generous contributions to a losing effort in the 2010 mid-terms.

Ideally, the President is supposed to govern on behalf of "all the people".  But Obama has proven to be more decisive, more bias, more ideological, and more anti-business than any president in the history of the nation.  And who suffers?  The American people.