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Obama: I'm “only thing between you and the pitchforks.” (2009)
POLITICO ^ | April 3, 2009 | By EAMON JAVERS

Posted on 04/15/2010 8:02:30 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Arrayed around a long mahogany table in the White House state dining room last week, the CEOs of the most powerful financial institutions in the world offered several explanations for paying high salaries to their employees — and, by extension, to themselves.

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But President Barack Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the public’s reaction to such explanations. “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”

“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

The fresh details of the meeting — some never before revealed — come from an account provided to POLITICO by one of the participants. A second source inside the meeting confirmed the details, and two other sources familiar with the meeting offered additional information.

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To: Tigerized

Thug ping


21 posted on 04/15/2010 8:21:05 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“So if you don’t do what I tell you, I’ll let the public hang you.”

No thuggery here!


22 posted on 04/15/2010 8:22:01 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (http://www.teapartyslogans.com/cgi-bin/web/index.cgi)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

oddfather


23 posted on 04/15/2010 8:22:06 AM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: grumpygresh

Obama: Pitch fork and gun salesman of the decade.


24 posted on 04/15/2010 8:22:36 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: DrC
Regardless of how he became a thug, he's a thug. Often, the truth is harsh.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

25 posted on 04/15/2010 8:22:38 AM PDT by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? Go to www.myspace.com/rockfromtheright)
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To: STARWISE; SE Mom; maggief; onyx; hoosiermama; little jeremiah

Thug in Chief ping!


26 posted on 04/15/2010 8:23:34 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

When the boy king meets his end, it will make the passing of Kings Herod and Ahab look positively peaceful and joyous in comparison.

And that’s no threat. It is appointed unto men once to die, and then judgment. When Almighty God decides it is time to pull 0bama’s plug, there is no power in Heaven or on Earth (or anywhere else) that will be able to prevent it.

When history issues it’s verdict many years from now, 0bama will be the most reviled and despised ruler in all of U.S. history (and I say ‘ruler’ because he is not, and will NEVER be confirmed to be ‘President’ by Constitutional muster).

Woe unto the usurpin’ Kenyan sonuvabitch.


27 posted on 04/15/2010 8:23:38 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: gathersnomoss
Man - Oh - Man. How the hell did this total O-hole become President!

1) The teachers' union that has been undermining the fabric of our education for 50 years

2) ACORN that has devalued our votes

28 posted on 04/15/2010 8:24:08 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Brad from Tennessee

That’s a pretty biased article, even by Politico’s standards of 2009.


29 posted on 04/15/2010 8:27:29 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: STARWISE; SE Mom; maggief; hoosiermama; onyx

“At each place around the table sat a single glass of water. No ice. For those who finished their glass, no refills were offered. There was no group photograph taken of the CEOs with the president, which typically happens at ceremonial White House gatherings but not at serious strategy sessions.

“The only way they could have sent a more Spartan message is if they had served bread along with the water,” says a person who attended the meeting. “The signal from Obama’s body language and demeanor was, ‘I’m the president, and you’re not.’”

Neener..neener..neener...’I’m the President and you’re not”

Obama is a punk narcissist! The funny thing is many of these financial titans supported him for President!


30 posted on 04/15/2010 8:29:15 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire
From the White House, there were five principal attendees: chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who arrived a few minutes late, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Christina Romer, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers. Uncharacteristically, Summers said almost nothing, and it appeared to one participant as if he had been told to remain silent.
31 posted on 04/15/2010 8:35:48 AM PDT by maggief (Not everything is what it seems.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The CEOs are not who are outraging the people, and they won’t be carrying pitchforks when they have finally had enough.


32 posted on 04/15/2010 8:36:37 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

Obama is too stupid to realize the pitchforks are for him.

33 posted on 04/15/2010 8:38:27 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Thanks for this apt and timely reminder of the evil that this usurper and his “administration” is all about.


34 posted on 04/15/2010 8:38:32 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This US President is delusional and needs to be carried out of OUR white house in a straight jacket before he gets us all killed.


35 posted on 04/15/2010 8:40:09 AM PDT by spectre ( Spectre's wife)
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To: Chuzzlewit
wow. that is a thinly veiled threat, if I ever heard one

Thinly veiled? I think butt-naked.

36 posted on 04/15/2010 8:40:49 AM PDT by T Minus Four (Abortion: one dead, one wounded.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Exactly. bttt


37 posted on 04/15/2010 8:41:08 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (Jim Wallis speaks for Christians the same way that Jesse Jackson speaks for all blacks.)
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To: DrC

I tried not to be too harsh, I left muslim POS off that post.


38 posted on 04/15/2010 8:41:12 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: maggief

Sounds like many of them want to return the TARP money as well, but Obama won’t let them. The ONLY reason for this stance on Obama’s part is that it doesn’t fly with his administration’s strategy to demonize the bankers and financial sector heading into the November elections.

This part was very telling:

“Dimon also insisted that he’d like to give the government’s TARP money back as soon as practical, and asked the president to “streamline” that process.

But Obama didn’t like that idea — arguing that the system still needs government capital.....”

and:

“Several CEOs disagreed, arguing instead that returning TARP money was their patriotic duty, that they didn’t need it anymore, and that publicity surrounding the return would send a positive signal of confidence to the markets.”

Obama doesn’t want any ‘positive message’ sent to the markets..nor does he want the public to think positively about the financial sector. He needs to demonize them to take the pressure off his epic failure as President.


39 posted on 04/15/2010 8:42:25 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Brad from Tennessee; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...
The list, ping

Hey, that's a nice bank ya got there....

40 posted on 04/15/2010 8:43:19 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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