Daley was President Clinton’s NAFTA coordinator and is credited with passage of that profound job-killer by persuading congressional Democrats to abandon ship and join the Chamber of Commerce and the DLC in that fiasco. Perhaps Obama is thinking that because Daley cost this nation thousands of jobs with NAFTA, he can do the reverse for Obama and move toward trade agreements that will add jobs. Who knows?

I think Bob Herbert, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz have a better perspective than “Wall Street Bill Daley.” They think Obama has not done enough for working families while letting the top 1 percent off the hook. The stats support Reich. One headline last week following the latest release of labor stats was “Slow job growth dims expectation of early revival.”

Herbert talked with Peter Edelman, who quit the Clinton administration on a matter of profound principle. Edelman thought the poor needed help, while Clinton rode the “abolish welfare” horse out of the barn and down the center of the road.