Yesterday, Obama tried his hand at harnessing the kind of grassroots passion that helped elevate him past Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries....
Granted, it was a fundraiser, not a free rally. But the empty seats were hard to miss.
Guess we will learn what corporate fascists are behind him.... Other than that, bho is going to have to spend his stash to buy tickets to prop up appearances.
Where did the magic go?
But absent from both the list and likely attendance will be the chief executives at banks such as JPMorgan (JPM: 41.59, -0.08, -0.19%), Bank of America (BAC: 10.78, -0.18, -1.69%), Citigroup (C: 38.78, -0.39, -1.00%), Goldman Sachs (GS: 137.29, -0.24, -0.17%), Blackrock (BLK: 192.63, +3.70, +1.96%) and Morgan Stanley (MS: 22.76, -0.60, -2.57%).
The no-shows are in sharp contrast to the situation in 2007, when CEOs and top executives at major banks joined the president at a dinner reception at a Washington restaurant named Johnny’s Half Shell.