Newly-hired Obama senior economic adviser Jason Furman wrote a lengthy defense of Wal-Mart back in 2005, Ben Smith reported yesterday.

The article, entitled “Wal-Mart: A Progressive Success Story”, contained two main lines of defense: 1) That Wal-Mart lowered prices, allowing lower-income Americans to buy more; 2) That Wal-Mart’s low wages aren’t all that bad.

The only criticism he apparently offers is that Wal-Mart doesn’t lobby for the government to subsidize low-income worker wages.

And now he’s a senior adviser to the all-knowing Barack Obama, whom attacked the corportation in 2006, saying, “Wal-Mart is making enormous profits, and yet it has chosen to go with low wages and diminished benefits.”. In fact, Obama claims he refuses to shop at the store because of its employment practices.

As expected, the comment section on Politico is nothing but reasonable. /s

The Walmart of today is slowly catching up with the times. Walmart, of the Clinton era, was bad.

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Ben how much is McBush paying you?

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Bored, Ben? How ’bout writin’ up a story on Kucinich delivering articles of impeachment against George W. Bush tonight? Now THAT’S what I’d like to read about. (Live on CSPAN as of 9:30 EST if anyone would like to watch.)

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We get it you hate Obama.

It’s all just one big distraction.