Akenaton asserted:

Mr Obama is a lawyer, who will do the bidding of Corporate America,
just like every other president in modern times.

That statement just shows Ake's fuzzy thinking, lack of knowledge of logic, and prejudice. On examination, it is a fallacious syllogism which flows like this:

First premise:   EVERY lawyer* is crooked and willing to do the
    bidding of "Corporate America".
Second premise: Obama is a lawyer.
Conclusion:      Therefore, Obama (as president) will do the
    bidding of "Corporate America".

It mixes his prejudice against lawyers as a class with his virulence against Obama in particular. Since the first premise is clearly false even as to the class "every lawyer" (not to mention being false as to Obama, whose history makes him one of the legion of exceptions), the whole syllogism falls. *The first premise MUST refer to "every lawyer", in order for Ake's statement to fly.

The phrase "do the bidding of Corporate America" is way too vague to be the basis for a meaningful charge. What constitutes "Corporate America"? Every business which is organized as a corporation? Fortune 500 companies? The very expression "Corporate America" is a pejorative abstraction (at least as Ake uses it here), meaning that there exists a cohesive body called "Corporate America", which speaks and acts with one voice (by implication, usually if not always against the nation's interest). There is no such entity in the real world as "Corporate America". There are corporations and corporations, then there are corporations, with different interests, modes of action, and desires with regard to public and governmental action.   

Then in addition, of course, the last eight words, about "every other president in modern times", would have to be examined critically. And even if that clause were to be deemed true, it would destroy the meaning of the initial syllogism by making the first premise irrelevant.

In short, the italicized statement is merely an ill-tempered insult, carelessly issued without consideration of its own external or internal accuracy. Or possibly, (which is worse), knowingly wrongly issued.

Dave Oesterreich