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Bill Daley on Obama and the business community: "They think he's like Marx"
Chicago Sun Times ^ | April 25, 2012 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 04/28/2012 9:06:25 AM PDT by bkopto

Former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley acknowledged Wednesday that President Barack Obama has a "very difficult time" with the business community.

"They think he's like Marx or something," Daley said.

Daley made his comments in his first big speech since stepping down as President Barack Obama's chief of staff, giving a home town crowd insights into the White House and beyond.

How does Obama get on with business people?

"They think he's like Marx or something," Daley said. "It's like he's destroyed the world and the financial services industry as we know it. Most of the public today believes the president has been too light on the financial service sector. Nobody's gone to jail. He didn't nationalize the banks. The president has a very difficult time with the business community. Most people in business and most people who are successful are Republican that's just a fact of life."

"....The evidence that Osama bin Laden was really in that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was so thin, Daley said, that: "Trust me, if you went to 26th and California [the Cook County Criminal Courthouse] with the evidence that Osama bin Laden was in the building, no judge would have given you a search warrant. No way. They would have looked at you and said, 'bring me something real here.' "

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: billdaley; businessleaders; marx; marxism; marxist; obama; obamamarxist; socialism
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1 posted on 04/28/2012 9:06:36 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

“”They think he’s like Marx or something,” Daley said. “

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He’s actually like Hugo Chavez.


2 posted on 04/28/2012 9:09:24 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Obama ate his own dog as a child in Indonesia??)
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To: bkopto

Obama warned us what he would do, and few listened..


3 posted on 04/28/2012 9:13:52 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

It would be very interesting to have Daley sit down with a serious economist, like Forbes columnist Dr. Larry Hunter, and try to explain in exactly what ways Barack Obama isn’t “like Marx or something.”


4 posted on 04/28/2012 9:13:59 AM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: bkopto
"They think he's like Marx or something," Daley said... "He didn't nationalize the banks."

Where would they get an idea like that?

5 posted on 04/28/2012 9:14:06 AM PDT by bray (Power to We the People)
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To: bkopto

“He has a very difficult time with the business community.” These words made my day.


6 posted on 04/28/2012 9:14:21 AM PDT by bboop (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
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To: bray

He only nationalized General Motors!


7 posted on 04/28/2012 9:17:13 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: bkopto

Were that true, so many of them wouldn’t have voted for the Kenyan Klown.


8 posted on 04/28/2012 9:18:58 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (There will be no vote for Myth Romney in my house. Period.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Vote Obama 2012 because our first choice Hugo Chavez isn't a Natural Born Citizen! Oh wait...
9 posted on 04/28/2012 9:19:35 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: bkopto

He is not as smart as Marx I’d say he is on Mars, so removed from reality there is no clear goal or positive purpose.


10 posted on 04/28/2012 9:20:13 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: bkopto

Soetoro is the opiate for the illiterate.


11 posted on 04/28/2012 9:22:44 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: The Free Engineer

And many successful businesses know the history of Obama’s proposals...Nationalization through taxation and regulation. There’s really no need to directly take over businesses. They believe that businesses owe their profits to the greater good. That’s why business is hoarding cash. There will be a show down.


12 posted on 04/28/2012 9:24:17 AM PDT by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: bkopto
"They think he's like Marx or something," Daley said.

Kind of a cross between Karl Marx and Groucho Marx, with a touch of Stalin, Lenin and Robert Mugabe thrown in.

13 posted on 04/28/2012 9:26:58 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: bkopto
He didn't nationalize the banks.

But he wanted to.

14 posted on 04/28/2012 9:43:55 AM PDT by mojito
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To: bkopto

He didn’t nationalize the banks.

In this term.


15 posted on 04/28/2012 9:53:57 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: bkopto

So does any right thinking American.


16 posted on 04/28/2012 9:57:57 AM PDT by RichardW
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To: boomop1
He is not as smart as Marx

Definitely not


17 posted on 04/28/2012 9:57:57 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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To: bkopto

Would you ask Bill Daley to get a warrant at 26th and California? Heck, his family owns the joint.


18 posted on 04/28/2012 9:58:57 AM PDT by Thebaddog (Remember, Obama said he's only 60% done with his agenda.)
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To: bkopto
"Most people in business and most people who are successful are Republican... that's just a fact of life."

Daley must have been doped with sodium pentothal.

19 posted on 04/28/2012 10:10:21 AM PDT by Third Person
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Daley’s remarks show just how clueless this administration is. Businesses make decisions on investment, hiring, etc., based on PERCEPTIONS of what the future will bring. That business perceives Obama as a Marxist is why there are no jobs. Obama is the problem, and getting him out of office is the solution.

I suspect that Obama’s suppressed college transcripts reveal an affinity for Marxism-based courses. Some could argue that he is not a true Marxist, which requires a certain intellectual rigor, but just a lazy, resentful, anti-imperialist leftist “community agitator” who has never worked a hard day in his life, yet wants wants to redistribute others’ earnings by force while his wife imitates Marie Antoinette, suffocate the economy under the micro-regulatation of left-wing commissars, “crucify” the oil industry, cripple domestic energy production and raise energy costs, increase taxes to discourage success, empower unions, subsidize cronies through failed “stimulus” schemes, destroy the U.S. Constitution, socialize healthcare, treat U.S. citizens as subjects, ad nauseum). Does his behavior fit a textbook definition of Marxism? Who cares? Business knows Obama is an economic wrecking ball, Marxist or not.


20 posted on 04/28/2012 10:17:12 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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