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ORIGINAL: MissAsylum

his money, he can do what he wants.

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"I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street," Obama said Friday in excerpts of an interview with CBS television to be aired on Sunday

"They're still puzzled why it is that people are mad at the banks. Well, let's see. You guys are drawing down 10, 20 million dollar bonuses after America went through the worst economic year... in decades and you guys caused the problem.

"These same banks who benefited from taxpayer assistance who are fighting tooth and nail with their lobbyists... up on Capitol Hill, fighting against financial regulatory control," Obama added.

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Here are some of the administration officials. There is Rahm Emanuel. He was a "banking scum" guy, wasn't he? Investment bank.

I don't think he's a scum but that fat cat, Valerie Jarrett, I don't know, she seems perfectly nice. But she's a fat cat. She's got — she was the chairman of the board of the Chicago Stock Exchange, so she must be like a "Wall Street thief," I guess. And then we have — oh, this guy — Ron Bloom. He's the manufacturing czar — former investment banker. "Banking scum."

Then we have, well, TARP, Herb Allison. He's a veteran Wall Street "banking scum." Then we have, let's see, technology "czar": He is Aneesh Chopra. He worked at Morgan Stanley — "Wall Street thief."

We have the car "czar," love him, Steve Rattner. "Wall Street thief." Gary Gensler, 18 years at Goldman Sachs.

Mark Paterson, Geithner's chief of staff, lobbyist, Goldman Sachs. Diana Farrell, she's great, economic — National Economic Council. Goldman Sachs! Isn't that the company that the president was saying that still didn't get it? Weird, huh? How about the President's Economic Recovery Board? Oh, we've got some fat cats there. We have some chairman of G.E., Jeffrey Immelt. "Banking scum" — I think, liars, crooks, banking scum — I'm going to put him under "banking scum" because of G.E. Capital.

How about David Swensen? Veteran of Wall Street, Lehman Brothers — "Wall Street" thief.

We have Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Banking.

Do we have him? That's no him? Who is this? This is Charles Phillips. Charles Phillips, he's — Charles Phillips is with who?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

sorry, Beck is hardly a credible news source. YOU may view him as such, few here do.

I dont do youtube links. And you know that. So that source is a no go as well.

Video logic doesnt play here.

Got something in writing? Will read it word for word. I dont like videos. Too much twisting and playing around with words.

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ORIGINAL: AsmodaisSin

Do as I say; not as I do.  Do as I say; not as I do.  -Blinks a few times.-  Do as I say; not as I do.  Do as I say; not as I...wait a second.  That's bullshit.
Seriously, though.  The guy needs to either shut his mouth about how the rest of the world and Americans spend their money or stop spending so much.  If he weren't always talking down to people on how they spend their money, I don't think people like Sanity would get so pissed off.  Hypocrisy is part of being human, but it still pisses us off.

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ORIGINAL: MissAsylum

his money, he can do what he wants.

-Rolls her eyes.-  I don't think anyone is denying this.  What a lot of us have a problem with is that, in one breath, he says bullshit about us spending too much money, telling Americans how to spend money, and then he and his wife drop a lot of money on other stuff.  If he wasn't sitting on a high horse and then feeding his wife and kids with silver spoons in the other, people would leave him alone. The hypocrisy is nauseating. 

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Why shouldnt I point out how theyre hypocrites. How is ignorance an improvement over enlightenment? I serve as a gadfly for the Democrats as they serve as gadflys for the Republicans.

Assholes do serve a purpose in life.

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ORIGINAL: EbonyWood

Yes, they emit shit. You keep proving that.
 
Thats not a personal attack by the way, as much as you want one, because you're self proclaimed.
 
But it is the most salient fact in this thread.

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
Well you obviously haven't been paying attention .Sanity has turned criticizing this particular President in to a cottage industry,as is his right....just like it's the right of the rest of us to point out the silliness in 99.9 % of what Sanity posts about.
288 posts and yet you still don't know the way the wind blows around here?

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Of course thats a personal attack ebony. A weak one, to be sure. But thats alright, keep telling yourself that its equal to other posters mature intelligent debate if it makes you feel better about yourself.

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ORIGINAL: EbonyWood

Yes, they emit shit. You keep proving that.
 
Thats not a personal attack by the way, as much as you want one, because you're self proclaimed.
 
But it is the most salient fact in this thread.

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The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people





What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.

It is the kind of impunity that has been highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain, which has prompted a New York Post columnist Andrea Tantaros to dub the First Lady a contemporary Marie Antoinette. As The Telegraph reports, while the Obamas are covering their own vacation expenses such as accommodation, the trip may cost US taxpayers as much as $375,000 in terms of secret service security and flight costs on Air Force Two.

The timing of this lavish European vacation could not have come at a worse moment, when unemployment in America stands at 10 percent, and large numbers of Americans are fighting to survive financially in the wake of the global economic downturn. It sends a message of indifference, even contempt, for the millions of Americans who are struggling just to feed their families on a daily basis and pay the mortgage, while the size of the national debt balloons to Greek-style proportions.

While the liberal-dominated US mainstream media have largely ignored the story, it is all over the blogosphere and talk radio,...

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