Another chapter in the tale of our DINO president as he enters the realm of NAFTA redux. 

Remember Clinton and NAFTA rammed through Congress by Rahm Emanuel?  NAFTA caused the loss of 1 million American jobs. It has been so terrible a trade policy that Hillary Clinton and even Emanuel lied about it during her presidential campaign saying she never supported it.

Well, Obama wants to continue that NAFTA trend that he obviously disingenuously campaigned against.  Flip-flopper extraordinaire.

Roger Bybee writes at Working: In These Times

"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.

"Americans already have had extremely negative perceptions of free-trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has cost more than 1 million jobs since 1994. Yet precisely at a moment of extreme anxiety, President Obama and his economic advisors seem bent on further amping up the economic worries of  already-insecure voters with "free-trade" proposals that the vast majority of Americans—particularly Democrats—deeply despise.

"Working families remain deeply worried about their jobs moving overseas, no extension of unemployment benefits, the prospect of home foreclosure, and how they will provide food for their families. Mike Elk summarized the results of a very recent Mark Mellman/Alliance for American Manufacturing poll on this blog:

The poll …shows that President Obama's approval rating are 11 points lower among households where a family member is employed in manufacturing than a household where no one is employed in manufacturing. That underscores a trend already noted: those most affected by the Democrats' failure to deliver on their promises of trade reform are turning against the Democratic Party.

"With South Korea alone, the Economic Policy Institute's Robert Scott has calculated that a loss of nearly 200,000 jobs would occur due to a "free trade" deal designed, above all, to protect and expand the rights of financiers and investors—not workers, consumers or the environment.

"Jumping on the free-trade bandwagon of America's corporate, media, and political elites will have profoundly negative political and practical results.

"But Obama is not only forsaking much of the Democratic voting base....More fundamentally, he is displaying the contempt for democracy that is integral to the corporate globalization mentality.

"The drive for globalization has consistently come from elites across the globe who want to insulate their privileged economic status from democratically-established laws enacted at the local and national levels to protect worker rights, safeguard consumers from toxic products, and shield the environment from corporate greed.

"The globalizers use trade agreements like NAFTA and the World Trade Organization to trump local and national democracy.

"The elites committed to corporate globalization are accustomed to mocking, marginalizing and utterly ignoring the opposition of majorities victimized by the relocation of family-supporting jobs, the brutal exploitation of the poor in nations like Mexico and China, and the undermining of democracy.

"Sad to say, it appears that Barack Obama is signing on with the globalizers—and discarding a commitment to democracy, along with Democrats' prospects for November."