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Obama’s Original Sin
NYMag ^ | 7/3/2011 | Frank Rich

Posted on 07/08/2011 8:21:09 PM PDT by Beave Meister

The president’s failure to demand a reckoning from the moneyed interests who brought the economy down has cursed his first term, and could prevent a second.

fter 9/11, Rudy Giuliani went on Saturday Night Live to give New Yorkers permission to laugh again. But Mayor Bloomberg never did tell us when we could resume conspicuous consumption after the crash of 2008. And so, as we stumble through the second year of the official “recovery,” it’s been an improvisational return to high-end carousing in Manhattan.

A case in point was the late-May celebration of the centennial rededication of the New York Public Library. Surely no civic institution could be a more unimpeachable beard for a blowout. The dress code—no black tie—was egalitarian. The Abyssinian Baptist Church Gospel Choir, the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, and that cute chorus from P.S. 22 in Staten Island—Glee diversity on steroids—were in the house along with some 900 invited guests, marquee names included (Toni Morrison, Jonathan Franzen). Bloomberg delivered a pre-dinner benediction from an altarlike perch on the main reading room’s balcony. “Free and open access to information may be the single most important component of any democratic society,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bho44; chat; fail; frankrich; liberallies; liberals; libtards; nymag; obama; obamacare; sarahpalin
Rich and most liberals are very disappointed, but don't have the guts to say "Obama's been a huge mistake." Not only that...they'll all vote for him again and again.
1 posted on 07/08/2011 8:21:13 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

“...moneyed interests that brought the economy down” like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd?

Like Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae?


2 posted on 07/08/2011 8:31:03 PM PDT by donmeaker (I)
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To: Beave Meister

Obama’s Original Sin?

There are so mny, how does one sift through them all to find the original?


3 posted on 07/08/2011 8:43:02 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: donmeaker
“...moneyed interests that brought the economy down” like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd?

Like Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae?


You beat me to it! I'll just add a little visual aid to the topic:

DNC bondage
4 posted on 07/08/2011 8:45:00 PM PDT by Oceander (The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
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To: Beave Meister
The president’s failure to demand a reckoning from the moneyed interests who brought the economy...

Of course not. They're the ones who paid to put him there.

5 posted on 07/08/2011 8:52:37 PM PDT by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: Ingtar

The banksters made a deal with the devil’s minion, BJ Clinton.

Bammy would never point his finger at the liberal race pimps. Only Demonrats could come up with the idea to award loans based on race quotas!


6 posted on 07/08/2011 9:16:15 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Beave Meister

What a twisted web. Obama was the national legal trainer for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. They worked with HUD, Justice Department, Freddie and Fannie to pressure anks into making mortgage loans to unqualified, mostly minority people. Acorn would find and bring in the people as well as making the threats of racism if loans were not approved. They were so successful that over half (estimated 27 out of 55 million) of the mortgages in the US were sbprime. Some banks were working so hard to please the leftists in these administrations that they came up with a new class of loans called NINJA loans (No Income, No job or Assets). Obama was the pusher in the mortgage crisis.


7 posted on 07/08/2011 9:25:41 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: Oceander

Barney Frank: “Dodd is my co-pirate.”


8 posted on 07/08/2011 9:58:23 PM PDT by donmeaker (I)
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To: MtnClimber
I thought it was No Income ? No Job ? Approved !

LOL

9 posted on 07/08/2011 10:37:35 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Beave Meister
It's been put to music.
10 posted on 07/09/2011 4:06:16 AM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: Beave Meister
The president’s failure to demand a reckoning from the moneyed interests who brought the economy down.....

I couldn't read further. Isn't it instructive that liberalism has to resort to false premises to prop up it's tenuous foundation? We are witnessing the whole house of cards beginning to teeter, and soon it will fall.

11 posted on 07/09/2011 5:26:44 AM PDT by wayoverontheright (The Democratic Party is trying to end "the private sector as we know it".)
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To: wayoverontheright

It’s just the latest meme, a segue from “Bush’s Fault.” It is another version of “Republicans favor the rich while Democrats favor the *working (union) guy*.

It works for them, as well.


12 posted on 07/09/2011 5:42:03 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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