ALL THREE Obama Chiefs of Staff made their fortunes on Wall Street. SO WHAT?

[MannyGoldstein]

Why do the HATERS think this is a bad thing???

We should be proud that Obama is a good enough President that they'll agree to run the country. They could run other countries instead, you know.

[eridani]

1. Where can we export them so they can fuck up other countries? n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Do you think they'd do that for us?

Yes, you're right. They're that patriotic.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. x 2

[Prometheus Bound]

4. I think this is a very good thing.

For the 1%.

[gyroscope]

5. Because the values of Wall Street are the antithesis of public service

You want these people in charge of regulating Wall Street?
Like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.

Obama's entire administration is filled with them.

I thought he was supposed to be different from Bush?
Hope and change? No. Obama is all about the status quo.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. These are good people. Their hearts are in the right place.

They made a lot of money. Incredible torrents of money. Enormous money geysers.

So they must be good people, with the public interest at heart.

[Bragi]

12. All good points

These patriots have been slammed by know-nothing slugs who whinged when their over-sized home prices fell, but the guys who invented mortgage-backed derivative securities had hearts of gold. In fact, gold has done particularly well on their watch.

[gyroscope]

16. According to your logic, Bernie Madoff

would make an excellent public servant?

he did make 50 billion after all. by ripping people off.

and Jon Corzine is the next JFK right?

[FarLeftFist]

7. Which one of his Chief of Staffs is in charge of regulating Wall Street?

[MannyGoldstein]

8. So they're factotums, more or less.

Gal Fridays, so to speak.

Good point.

[gyroscope]

9. As I recall

Rahm Emanuel was instrumental in getting the very Wall Street friendly Obamacare legislation to pass with a mandate and no public option.

edit: He referred to liberal groups working to pass the public option as 'effing' retards.

[FarLeftFist]

10. That equals regulating Wall Street? That's a S T R E T C H

[gyroscope]

11. No, it isnt

when you're directly involved in getting legislation passed that directly effects regulation of health insurance companies, then no its not a stretch by any means.

[FarLeftFist]

14. It's a stretch because you are talking about the fox guarding the henhouse

When 1-It was the Senate that voted down the public option amendments, and 2-I hardly equate that with "regulating Wall Street", especially since their actually ARE people who DO regulate Wall Street, none of which are Obama's Chief of Staffs.

[gyroscope]

15. Gibberish

sorry if I have a hard time deciphering your nonsense.

[FarLeftFist]

21. Sorry if you have a hard time reading a pretty basic sentence. No need to decipher.

You claimed it was Obama's Chief of Staff who was regulating Wall Street, then failed to provide which one of his Chief of Staff was in charge of regulating Wall Street. That's about it.

[rhett o rick]

18. Pres Obama's DOJ spends more resources prosecuting food stamp fraud

than Wall Street fraud. And we are talking millions vs. trillions. Of course Pres Obama appointed all wall streeters. Do you need me to list them all?

[FarLeftFist]

22. Why list them all? This is common knowledge.

[gyroscope]

13. MannyGoldstein equates making boatloads of money to good public service

talk about a stretch!

by that measure I guess members of the Mexican drug cartels would make excellent public servants?

[JackRiddler]

34. Internet is the best medium for conveying irony, comedians say.

[rhett o rick]

17. Let me answer. None. Actually no one in the Obama admin regulates wall street. Most

are from wall street. Obama chooses wall street over main street, just look at his appointments.

[stockholmer]

20. ding ding ding, we have a winner!!

[FarLeftFist]

24. "Actually no one in the Obama admin regulates wall street." Especially not the Chief of Staff

[rhett o rick]

25. But you left out that no one in Obama's SEC regulates Wall Street either. I guess he

is just waiting until they need more bail-out money.

[FarLeftFist]

31. But you left out that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd–Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act

[MannyGoldstein]

40. But Dodd-Frank left out Glass-Steagall

Which kept us safe for 75 years.

[rhett o rick]

45. Let me know when they actually prosecute someone higher than a secretary. nm

[nashville_brook]

61. we have a winnah!

[bigwillq]

19. It proves to me that "We the people" and the Obama administration

really aren't very similar.

It shows that the administration, in part, is out of touch with the realities of the average person, despite its claims that we're all in this together.
The Obama Administration, in theory, wants to help the average person, but the administration is filled with folks who are far from average as far as wealth and status are concerned.

To me it's troubling because most politicians, regardless of party, are still so much better off than the average person and I think it sometimes clouds their judgment even when they try to do the right thing.

[Fool Count]

23. One must also appreciate how each of them took up that important detail

(getting a pittance of a salary) for the whole year. And they all have families to feed too.
That's what I call "taking one for the team". But how much can a man sacrifice? I hope
their Wall Street buddies find some way to make it worth their while.

[Angry Dragon]

26. I thought that differing points of view were better

[cherokeeprogressive]

27. More "Hope-ium" for the masses...

That's a good thing though, because I know literally hundreds of Hope-ium addicts.

[CoffeeCat]

28. The politicians don't run our government any longer...

The corporations--namely the banks--run our government. They call the shots.

They get the legislation they want, they decide who is elected and I'll even go so far as to say
that they decide who any president's advisors and cabinet members are.

I've always had a tough time--watching this country slip further into Fascism with Obama at the helm--because
I am convinced that Obama is a good man and that he wanted to change this country.

I always wondered--why doesn't he stop it?

The answer is--he can't. This is so far beyond him.

[bvar22]

47. "why doesn't he stop it?"

"I always wondered--why doesn't he stop it?

The answer is--he can't. This is so far beyond him."

The proper question is "Why is he helping them?"

Single-Handedly, he can't stop them,
but if he had used his Mandate for CHANGE given to him by the American People in 2008,
and IF he had called on HIS ARMY for help,
he could have made a BIG difference.

[font size=5]Obama's Army, Jan. 20th, 2009[/font]



Nobody forced President Obama to give these predators power in HIS White House.
(Rubin, Geithner, Summers, etc.)
He OWNS that one.

There ARE examples of very successful Democratic Presidents who actively FOUGHT the entrenched Money Powers,
and "Welcomed their Hatred."
Obama could have chosen that path.
The door was wide open.
He chose appeasement instead.


Obama could have marched at the head of his army,
and written himself into the history books as one of The Greatest.
Opportunities like the one given to him in 2008 happen only once a generation,
and THIS one was wasted.

NOW, obama's Army is marching without him.
Sad.
he Coulda Been a Contender.



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[woo me with science]

52. Marvelous post. nt

[CoffeeCat]

57. Wow, that is an amazing post...

...you should strongly consider posting it as an original post. Incredible.

I agree that Obama could have done all of that. However, I do believe that he is
dealing with powerful, global forces who would do ANYTHING to maintain their
power grip and to continue their crimes--which have been happening for decades.

I agree with you. Obama had choices. He did have an army with us. I was one
of his precinct captains and I would have marched to Washington or whatever--if he
had led the charge to end this Fascist takeover of our government.

I think the people doing this to our country and to our world are all interconnected, powerful
and I believe that they wouldn't hesitate to kill or destroy anyone who got in their way.

They could trump up a fake scandal, frame someone for horrible crimes or kill people or
their loved ones.

For Obama to play along--I'm assuming that these animals must be more disgusting and
evil than we can ever imagine.

I know what you're saying. I've spent months pointing out Obama's choices and criticizing
his horrendous moves. What has happened to our country is disgusting, and these bullies have
made tremendous progress toward their Fascist goals while Obama has been at the helm.

You're right--Obama could have been the one to save our Republic. Again, please consider posting
your response as it's own post. It's worth reading and others, I'm sure, would like to read and comment.

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. Is he being forced to run for a second term, cause I think that being held back from being able to

'change this country' for the good, I assume, would make him think twice about a second term.


Why would he want to put himself through the stress and bs?

[msongs]

29. everybody who disagrees is a HATER. yeah right nt

[SixthSense]

30. /facepalm

it's a bad thing because it adds to the very large mountain of evidence that Obama is the handmaiden of Wall Street.

[Bohunk68]

32. OH MY

So many forgot to use that sarcasm thingee, including the OP.

[Skittles]

33. STOP IT MANNY

[SidDithers]

35. Trashed...nt

Sid

[MannyGoldstein]

36. Then stop with the martinis for breakfast.

Help is available. Godspeed.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

49. Nice.

This was the best possible response to the single word sentence, containing either a verb or an adverb, depending on (non)context. Thanks for the laugh.

[JoePhilly]

37. Obama Bad Obama Bad Obama Bad

And another manufactured outrage widget hits the shop floor.

[MadrasT]

42. bwahahahaha

I am stealing that phrase...

[greytdemocrat]

38. But Manny will vote for Obama

Right???

[MannyGoldstein]

39. Manny will vote for the candidate who best represents traditional Democratic values. nt

[greytdemocrat]

41. Oh...

So you're voting for Ron Paul???? Sure you are.

[Octafish]

43. It's called ''Socialism.''

You know: "Socialize the risk. Privatize the reward."

It's the latest thing in Welfare for the Wealthy.

It's still Trickle Down for the rest of us.

[emulatorloo]

44. Manny, I love yah, but you are like the energizer bunny

What's up, Romney/Bain Capital stories taking up too much space at DU?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

46. Since when was working on Wall Street and/or making money there wrong?

You seem to be worried about the Obama Administration having some Wall Streeters in his cabinet- despite the fact that Wall Street hates the Obama Administration and its enactment of even mild regulations (oh, and a new cabinet level agency-CFPB)- yet I'm sure you realize that if and when the Republicans get back in the WH, they will (re-)capture and dismantle regulatory agencies (for the second time this century), paralyze the NLRB, and, of course, get rid of the CFPB, and load the entire federal government with Wall Streeters and will bend over backwards to....ahem....service Wall Street at any hour on any day.

Of course, there is absolutely (I repeat, absolutely) NO difference between the two parties!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

50. I think it's been wrong since Wall Street began stealing American wealth from average people

They're thugs in the service of theft on a larger scale than has ever been seen in the history of money. I hope that helps.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

53. All, some, or most?

Does working "on Wall Street" make one automatically bad, evil, etc or something? I'm interested in dealing with the lawbreakers but don't believe in automatically categorizing everybody working for Wall Street as such.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

54. No. Working on Wall St makes one complicit

There are lots of low-level people just wanting to get their paycheck, and I understand that. Still, they're working in the service of some of the worst people on the planet.

[frylock]

48. gold

[Marrah_G]

51. eerrrrr.........ummmmmm.....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

55. Awww, C'mon. Wall Street is the very fount of ethics and humanitarianism.

Jam packed with bleeding heart liberals who would be shocked and dismayed at making deals that screw people or even give a whiff of underhandedness. And, none of the three do gooders have been convicted...yet.

[great white snark]

56. Was wondering who would be the first to counter the Romney/Bain Capitol stories.

You don't like them we get it. We got it 50 related posts ago. Problem is your "Obama is owned by Wall St" meme is debunked by Wall St itself.

[GeorgeGist]

59. Really ?

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indus.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638

[GeorgeGist]

58. In this culture ...

a persons worth is measured in dollars not sense.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

60. Why vote for Romney

when we can just keep his clones walking the WH.

[downwardly_mobile]

62. ALL THREE!!!