There it is. This is precisely how the Extreme Left---Obama, Axelrod, everyone else in this leftwing, ultra-liberal administration views the free market. Economic liberty is merely a "theory." And one that hasn't worked. As Obama himself has said, "It hasn't worked. It's never worked." What?
To the Extreme Left, economic freedom is a failed theory that needs to be tossed out and replaced with their vision of government-enforced redistributionism.
Later in the same day, Obama gave a press conference, and said: "This is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign about how we can create an economy where everybody, from top to bottom, folks on Wall Street and folks on Main street have a shot at success."
Pay very close attention to his phrase: "how we CREATE an economy . . ." That is the key to everything he has done. He doesn't believe in the free market, or in individuals pursuing their economic interests and their dreams. He believes in a redistributive socialist state enforced through government coercion. That is the kind of economy he is trying to CREATE. Pay close attention to what he says because he's "telling us exactly what he's doing" and where he's "taking the country", if only our ears and eyes are open enough to hear and see it.