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The two faces of O: Prez's lovefest with Wall St. 'fat cats'
NY Post ^ | December 15, 2009 | CHARLES GASPARINO

Posted on 12/15/2009 3:59:45 AM PST by Scanian

In public, President Obama is on a tear against Wall Street. In private, not so much

Over the weekend, Obama attacked fat-cat investment bankers, telling "60 Minutes" he didn't become president to aid and abet Wall Street -- which, only a year after the financial meltdown and taxpayer bailout, is now scheduled to hand out tens of billions of dollars in bonuses to its bankers and traders.

But the president's meeting yesterday with the CEOs of the largest banks was nearly a lovefest, I'm told by attendees.

Yes, White House spinmeisters advertised the gathering as a chance for Obama to channel the public's disgust over Wall Street's celebrating while Main Street still suffers 10 percent unemployment, thanks largely to Wall Street's bungling. But that's not what he did.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bankers; compensation; hypocrisy; obama; richexecutives; wallstreet

1 posted on 12/15/2009 3:59:46 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Obama is a two faced cut-throat ignorant tool of George Soros.


2 posted on 12/15/2009 4:02:33 AM PST by Broker (Darwin's gods are dangerous men.)
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To: Broker

Mack daddy.


3 posted on 12/15/2009 4:03:31 AM PST by tommyboy (We'll do it live)
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To: Scanian

Obama yells to his Communist base, but is really a Roosevelt-era Cartel Communist at heart. He wants several wealthy banks to survive that pay him and his friends tons of money, lend to their friends and political base. Hard to do in a competitive market.

This is where corporate American and Communism become one. Willingly, since Dimon et al was the Elitest winners.

We loser.


4 posted on 12/15/2009 4:05:45 AM PST by whitedog57
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To: Scanian

Three more years of O and there will nothing left.

He is a poseur and treacherous liar.


5 posted on 12/15/2009 4:05:49 AM PST by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: whitedog57; Scanian

He’s a fascist. The bankers know this and are simply making sure they get their cut of the pie. Fascism permits industries to exist as ostensibly “private,” but actually as heavily government controlled entities that are part of the government’s (particularly, the individual “ruler’s”) source of income.

Businesses went along with Hitler when he did this, and they will go along with Obama. In some ways it would be easier if he were just a Communist, because they’re easier to oppose. Instead, he is a sociopathic individual with a messiah complex who wishes to impose his will on everything, and the banks think that it would be prudent to go along with this. After all, they invested a lot in funding his election.


6 posted on 12/15/2009 4:16:56 AM PST by livius
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To: Scanian

Bracko Bama is a Chameleon,

He changes colors to meet his environment.
(not meant to be a comment on his race, but yes, that too)

He has no principles stronger than a desire to increase his power.


7 posted on 12/15/2009 4:29:15 AM PST by Venturer
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To: tommyboy

... and his momma was a white wh0re... his daddy a drunk commie kenyan with a taste for whitey!

LLS


8 posted on 12/15/2009 4:36:50 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Scanian

We need to separate who the culprits are.

When the Left uses the term “Wall St.,” they do so to denounce all capitalism and the free-market system as a whole.

Obammie the Commie is polishing the knobs of CENTRAL BANKSTERS and SOCIALIST FINANCIERS. PERIOD.

Some happen to have (or have had offices on) Wall Street. But they are not indicative of Capitalism as a system (because they collude with central government to destroy competition through monopoly)and if they abided by the principles of the free-market, they would have failed long ago.

THIS IS ALL PART OF THE “SYSTEM” OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE.

AUDIT THE FED.
END THE FED.


9 posted on 12/15/2009 4:38:10 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Scanian

Do the bailed-out financial institutions owe citizens a “thank you” gesture? That’s something that should have been in the contract between lender (government) and borrower (institutions). The institutions owe nothing that’s not in that contract. Obama’s whining reveals nothing more than his administration’s incompetence when preparing the above-mentioned contract.


10 posted on 12/15/2009 4:41:31 AM PST by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: Scanian

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

Barack Obama
Top Contributors

University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835


11 posted on 12/15/2009 4:44:17 AM PST by maggief
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To: whitedog57

He practices Mussolini-style facism, what Il Duce used to call “corporatism.”

The parallels between Zippy and Mussolini are pretty startling, not only philosophically but their poses and mannerisms have a great deal in common.

O should remember how Il Duce ended up once his people decided he was just a traitor: hanging upside down from a Milan light pole.


12 posted on 12/15/2009 4:52:07 AM PST by Scanian
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To: whitedog57

He practices Mussolini-style facism, what Il Duce used to call “corporatism.”

The parallels between Zippy and Mussolini are pretty startling, not only philosophically but their poses and mannerisms have a great deal in common.

O should remember how Il Duce ended up once his people decided he was just a traitor: hanging upside down from a Milan light pole.


13 posted on 12/15/2009 4:52:27 AM PST by Scanian
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To: maggief

I may be wrong but isn’t the University of California a publicly funded institution?


14 posted on 12/15/2009 4:58:21 AM PST by SMM48
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To: livius

Bingo.

If people look at Hussein as a modern version of 1930’s fascists, he is much easier to understand.


15 posted on 12/15/2009 5:00:32 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

obama

http://www.network54.com/Forum/578302/thread/1260838215/last-1260838215/New+Ad+-+Obama+is+an+Unconstitutional+Illegal+Putative+President+-+...Washington+Times...


16 posted on 12/15/2009 5:17:12 AM PST by gunnyg (Just An Old Gunny ~ And *Still* Not A F'n Commie Basterd!)
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To: Scanian
 Obama attacked fat-cat investment bankers, telling "60 Minutes" he didn't become president to aid and abet Wall Street
 
How can you tell when Duh'bumba is lying?
 
 
 
I really don't have to answer that, do I?

17 posted on 12/15/2009 5:37:46 AM PST by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: Scanian

He ALWAYS does BOTH!!!! Just depends on who he’s talkin to! So EVERYONE thinks he’s on their side!!


18 posted on 12/15/2009 6:36:41 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Scanian
From article:

Said one CEO who attended: "I expected to be taken to the woodshed, but the tone was quite the opposite."

Said another senior exec with knowledge of the meeting: "The whole thing was so telegraphed that not much was accomplished, other than giving Obama a PR stunt . . . He might have sounded mean on '60 Minutes,' but during the meeting he was a hell of a lot nicer."

Basically a PR stunt, Goldman, Citi, and MS, didn't show, because they knew that.

19 posted on 12/15/2009 8:02:48 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

The term “Fat Cats” is omana’s code for term for what the Nazis called”Jewish bankers”. Even though the Liberal Jews like the Liberal Gentiles believe that obama is their messaih, he has the same contempt for them that he has for the rest of us.

It is all about him.


20 posted on 12/15/2009 11:22:38 AM PST by sport
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